SUNDAY, November 24, 2024 Today I sleep in as long as I can, which isn't very long. The early morning calls during the week make it hard to sleep past 8 am on weekends, [...]

  SATURDAY, November 23 Thinking it must be at least 11am, I force myself out of bed and am shocked to find it's only 9! I go for a dip in the sea, have coffee [...]

THURSDAY & FRIDAY I wake to an email from my agent telling me how pleased that the producers of the animation session I recorded the other day from my hotel room were very happy with [...]

  WEDNESDAY We resume work early, another cloudy day. The fake smoke smothers the surface of the faux swamp, making a horrible odor, but a lovely scene. Rays of morning light criss-cross a moody, bayou [...]

  TUESDAY, November 19 Here, my diary entries become necessarily a bit sketchy, as shoot days are so long and exhausting that I frankly can't stay on top of it all. We spend all day [...]

  MONDAY, November 11 Our first day in the water... although it wasn't on the schedule! Today we had a lot of coverage to do: our little tourist party cruising around the lagoon at various [...]

    DAY 9: Sunday, November 17 Today I have to do a self-tape audition, which the actress who plays my daughter, Samantha Coughlan, helps me with. It's for a part in a film that [...]

DAY EIGHT (Thursday, November 14)   Today we complete the "casting off" part of the story; the characters begin their ill-fated journey into the bayou.   Production is using a technique of floating barges made [...]

DAY 7 (Wednesday, November 13) Today we begin to work at the lagoon, our Louisiana swamp set, about a quarter mile up the road from the Radisson hotel where we are staying. . We are [...]

DAY SIX (Tuesday, November 12) Big photo session today. I get fully into my character makeup, including my new mustache, and wardrobe, and have water spritzed onto my face. The shoot is for some promotion; [...]