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; [...]
DAY FIVE (Sunday) Wake up thinking "it must be around 7... I've slept a full night." Then out-fox myself when I check the time by looking, not at my phone but my iPad– 10:30! What [...]
DAY THREE (Friday) After going to bed fairly early and awakening for an hour at 3 am, I finally get out of bed at 9:30 am. I have no appointments with the film today, [...]
MALTA DIARY DAY TWO I wake up with the sun, around 6 am. Instagram and Tiktok are ablaze with news about the election, the outraged and the vindicated each having their noisy [...]