Day Four

I can’t believe that I am still awake and coherent.
It’s almost 1am as I write this, and I’ve only been home for a little over an hour.
Yeah, we were supposed to wrap around 7, but we shot until 11.
Holy mother of the Jackson Five. It was a long farking day.
Usually, if it’s getting later and later, they’ll just push the material to another day, but I guess we lose this particular set today, so they had to finish all the pages, and we didn’t get to leave until they did.
So today was a long day, but it was fun, and I did some nice work, I think.
In addition to the work, I also met the one and only Chef himself, Isaac Hayes.
I wrote about it earlier this morning:
CHEF!
When my alarm went off at 5AM today, it seemed like I hadn’t slept at all. I felt I had just turned off the light, and there was no way I was going to get up.
So I did that thing that we do when we’re exhausted…I did some quick math in my head, and figured out that if I ate breakfast from the caterer at work this morning, rather than cooking it myself before leaving, I could grab an extra 30 minutes of sleep.
So I reset it and fell back to sleep…and of course when it went off again, I felt like I hadn’t gotten any additional sleep at all. Matter of fact, I didn’t even feel awake until I was half-way to work.
I got to work at 7, went through makeup and hair, put on my wardrobe, and walked over to the caterer to get a breakfast burrito.
When I walked around the corner of the trailer, I saw him standing near the juices, talking with another actor…Isaac Hayes.
Dude! It’s Chef, standing right in front of the food!
I suppress an excited girlish squeal, and extend my hand, “Hi. I’m Wil,” I say.
“Oh, I know who you are! You’re the boy genius who made all those adults look stupid!” He says.
What? Am I still asleep? Did I just meet Isaac Hayes, and he told me knew who I was?
He continues, “I loved you on Star Trek, man. It’s really nice to meet you.”
I can’t believe that I’m keeping it together. I don’t even try to mask my enthusiasm, and tell him, “Jeeze, thank you. The admiration is mutual! I’m really excited to be working with you.”
We talk for a few more moments, but I can’t tell you what we said, because it was sinking in that I was standing here, in front of the catering truck, talking with Isaac Hayes, and he is excited to meet me!
After a moment, I tell him, “At my wedding, when my wife and I walked into the reception and were introduced to the assembled guests, we walked in to the theme from Shaft…”
He beams and says, “That’s cool! Thank you.”
He sort of half-bows, and he seems genuinely touched.
“…yeah,” I continue, “when I told her that you were working on this movie, she said I should tell you…so…there you go.”
I’m starting to feel like a full-on fanboy, so I decide now is a good time to STFU. Luckily, my breakfast is ready, so I excuse myself and head back to my dressing room to eat.
Of course, I’m so excited, it’s now cold, sitting on the desk next to me, because I had to write about this before I could eat.
I am such a dork.

59 thoughts on “Day Four”

Wil:
I would have reacted the same way-it’s great
that you were able to tell Isaac Hayes of your
admiration! “If only I had” are four of the worst words ever-sometime even an Isaac Hayes might need to know how much his work means to others!
By the way-don’t forget-fall back (set your computer and clocks back before you go to bed)!
Have a good Sunday!

“I am *such* a dork!”
We *all* feel like dorks, inflicted with STFUitis, at one time or another. It’s nice to realize there is fanboy/girl in everyone.

you met Issac!!!-SWEET- 😛
You guys use the theme for shaft for your wedding entrace..- very cool–
-My husband hunted for the garterbelt to the theme of Misson Impossible- started off by running in and sliding on his knees to me.

Wil..
theme from “Shaft”….. ok,
right…
that’s groovy man, just groovy…
latter

You’re allowed to act like that. Isaac Hayes is THE MAN. I mean, who wouldn’t get excited at meeting the legend. I can say that aside from him, only meeting you, Sam Jackson, Ewan McGregor or Mark Hamil would get me that excited. (Yeah, i’m a star wars fan as well, don’t hate me)
Loyal Monkey #24601

Next time you bump into Isaac
at the catering truck, you can tell
him the chef makes the best chocolate-salty-balls.

I love to read your posts Wil! You are an excellent writer and actor! I look forward to seeing your new movie! After TechTV, and SciFi, PAX is one of the channels I prefer to watch!

Ya Wil, I know how ya feel. Only when I met one of my true idols (Kevin Smith, creator of all that is Jay and Silent Bob) i tripped over myself and couldn’t say anything. i had a little paragraph all planned out, but i didn’t say anything. he signed my tape, looked and my camera and asked ‘picture?’ i nodded, and my brother took it. i hugged him, my brother shook his hand and said “love the films man”. it was then i managed to blurt out ‘i wanna be a director’. he smiled and said “cool” and walked off. i had to go sit down, i was so weak-in-the-knees. Ha ha.
the movie’s on tomorrow night and i’m so psyched!