Carnivale (1)

The following is from an email sent shortly after this shoot:

I was on the new HBO series Carnivale. I think I got some pretty good camera time whenever possible because I kept grinnin’ and jokin’ with one of the camera operators and he kept telling me which way to scoot in order to be in the frame. I was sitting next to a lady who stands up and says two lines so I got perhaps a second of camera time. I was also in front of another lady who had lines in a prior scene so they were getting her reactions separate from the crowd.

The scene is set in a tent where a fellow and a few cohorts were “healing” people. It was all a hoax, but during the Depression, people in these hick towns so removed and such would pay to see a show like that in hopes that they, too would be healed.

I was supposed to be disabled and in a wheelchair, but according to the DP (Director of Photography) I was too cute. So, they traded a hag of a woman into my wheelchair and I ended up in a much better spot. I was a little annoyed at first because it always seems that I’m never pretty enough nor ugly enough. It all evens out eventually, though.

It was a very long day sitting in a very hard wooden folding chair from the 1930s, but all in all, not too bad of a shoot.

I bought Carnivale Season One on DVD and grabbed a couple screen captures from that day. This particular episode was called “Tipton”.

And, yes, my hat really was that ugly! I was just glad that I didn’t have to stand all day because my shoes were rather uncomfortable.

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