Author: Wil

Saturday

Look at me! I’m a cowboy! Howdy, howdy, howdy.
Yes, I realize that I have not made good on my promise to update regarding Trek X, but it’s actually taken me this long to just get the smile off my face and catch up with stuff at home.
I’m sorry for the delays, but I’ve just gotten so damn busy this week. We’re doing yet another move for the site, because the traffic is just insane. Loren and I have been moving everything over to a new server (last time it was just it’s own IP, my bad), and poking at it with sticks to make sure that it works. The site may be unreachable for 24 hours or so, when we do the DNS update, so I’ll apologize in advance for that.
There are wonderful stories to tell, from this week, and I will tell them, but my house really needs to be cleaned up, and I really must wash my clothes…I’m running out of socks. 🙂
Oh, I’m also working on getting the old GM entries moved into Movable Type, which I’ll be using as the new journaling solution. Also, watch for a nifty phpWebsite-based section, opening sometime next week.
Hope everyone is having a great weekend.
Go Lakers.

Am I annoying or not?

I’m trying to catch up a little bit on emails (there were over 100 when I got home this morning), and this is one of the things that was sent to me.
LMAO.
Thanks, Nina.

A sort of Homecoming

It’s 1:15 in the morning. The crew is tired. I am tired. Most of the cast has been released, and it’s only me, Patrick, and Gates left, along with about 30 background actors. It’s the last shot of the night, and we’re finally doing my scene.
We block it, rehearse it once, and then we shoot it. It’s a pretty complicated shot, camera-wise, and I can tell that the director is getting frustrated with the constant re-takes, and we all know that the studio will not let us go past 1:30., so there’s a touch of urgency in the air.
Late on a Wednesday night. Long hours. Most of the cast has been released, because they’ve got a long doy tomorrow.
It’s like I never left, and I love it.
There’s much, much more, but I have to go back to the studio in a couple hours, and I’ve got other work to do, so I’ll write more tomorrow. Don’t worry, I’ve made notes, so I won’t forget.
A few highlights of the day:
*Hanging out with John Logan, who is as excited to me me as I am to meet him.
*Talking with Rick Berman, realizing that we are “cool” with each other.
*Having dinner with Brent.
*Racing about the lot with Jonathan in his golf cart.
There is so very, very much more. Check in tomorrow.
I hope everyone is having an awesome day.

Funny

So last night I hardly slept, I was so giddy and excited about going to work on Trek X today…my call is 8:30 AM, which means that I have to get up at 6:45, and leave by 7:45.
So I go to bed last night at about 10, so I don’t look like hell for the movie. Too bad, because I didn’t get the call at 11:30 last night that my call time had been pushed to 11:30 this morning.
I found out that my call had been changed when I was walking to the stage from the parking lot, and my cell phone rang. It’s Anne, and she tells me that she checked our messages and my call had been pushed.
I’m sure that this is somehow funny, but I’m a little scared now…what if this is all an elaborate (and expensive) practical joke, and I’m really on SpyTV?
We’ll find out more, later today.

Wired

I did this interview with Wired News about 2 weeks ago, and it’s running today.
I am just beyond happy.
I spent quite a bit of time talking with Noah Shactman, who wrote the story, and it seems like he really ‘gets’ me, and what this whole thing is about.
I’ve also done an interview with Salon, and People magazine is coming over this afternoon to take pictures for a feature story they’re going to be running very soon.
It’s just weird, all this stuff that’s going on in my life right now…I’ve spent the last few years just doing my own thing, you know? Enjoying being married, raising kids, working on a few movies here and there, but mostly just writing and doing things I’ve always wanted to do, like sketch comedy and improv…and now that I’m ready to make a return to movies and TV, those opportunities are presenting themselves to me. I think a lot of it has to do with me being ready to balance my family and acting responsibilities and desires. A year ago, I really just wanted to be with my wife and step-kids, and that’s what I did. I wasn’t ready for success as an actor again…but now that I’m ready for it, it seems to be happening. Glad the Universe is listening to me. At least for now. 🙂
I had a meeting with a VERY big casting director last week, and he started out the meeting by telling me that
I was totally wrong for this project, but he really respected me as an actor, so he’d talk with me, since I
was already there…then, after we’d spoken for about 10 minutes, he told me that he was totally wrong about me. He said that I was smart and funny, and I held myself very well, and lots of people were aware of my work, so I would be right after all. His exact words were: “Well, Wil, you’ve completely changed my mind about you.”
How cool is that?
Changing people’s minds is exactly what I’ve been wanting to do, and this Wired article sort of validates that, and so does the meeting I had last week. That meeting yieldied a test deal, and we’re just trying to work out the details.

Nemesis

I read the script for Star Trek X last night.
Holy shit.
Holy, Holy, Holy shit.
It’s easily, far and away, the best Trek movie since maybe “Wrath of Khan”? Certainly the best TNG movie. I am so excited to be in this movie, I can’t even begin to describe it. Matter of fact, I’m so excited that I’ve decided to go ahead and write another installment in the SpongBob Vega$ Pants saga! That should be up later
tonight, or tomorrow.
I talked to Brent Spiner yesterday, and he told me how excited they are that I’m going to be working with them. I’m gong to call Rick Berman today, and tell him “Thank you” and let him know how excited I am…I’m really, really nervous about that phone call…so hold a good thought for me.
I am having my final costume fitting tonight, and I work Wednesday and Thursday. I will take all the pictures I can get away with, and I’ll post them when I get the OK from Paramount.

News

We’re completing the move to the new server tonight. When that happens, I’ll be able to move all the old GM
entries to Movable Type, and that stuff will be available again.
I’ve had to take the Soapbox offline until the move is finished, and I’m still fixing the gallery. Please check the update page for info about that stuff.