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Odd day. It was a basically a technical day, spent camera blocking all the scenes for the shoot tomorrow night. Each scene was run three times with a modicum of tweaking here and there but it was all mostly for the benefit of the camera teams. That alone took up nearly eight hours.
Of note is the presence of the Nathan Lane proposed line in Scene K. It made it into the script and when the scene was run actually sounded pretty good. So the damn thing just might work after all.
The limo scenes were not rehearsed nor were they included in the producers' run-through. So there was no sign of them until about 4:30pm when everyone else in the cast was wrapped. Nathan and I and the camera teams moved over to Stage 25 to shoot the limo on the specially prepared green-screen set-up. It just didn't feel right to be in front of a green-screen and not be wearing a green body suit with matching stocking cap.
The scenes went fine. There was nothing really wrong with them, but there was nothing really right about them either. They were the scenes that had seemed to be so successful all along and there we sat staring into these three huge cameras with no audience feedback and everything just felt a little sterile and forced. I hate to say it, but it was possibly a bit of the old "paralyzed and not funny". Could it be that I need an audience to be funny? Can't I feel the rhythms on my own? But even so, I also felt that Nathan was a little unfunny, too. A bit of the pep was missing from his delivery. I don't know if that was a conscience choice to bring it down a little bit or if he too suffered from the audience vacuum we were performing in. With such funny movie credits under his belt, that would be surprising.
But all this could be utter nonsense. The truth will out tomorrow night when the scenes are played for the studio audience. We'll see if a room full of midwesterners find it any funnier that the crew on our third take. For our sake, they better.