My Boring-Ass Life (Revised Edition): The Uncomfortably Candid Diary of Kevin Smith by Smith Kevin

Author:Smith, Kevin [Smith, Kevin]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
Publisher: Random House Inc Clients
Published: 2010-11-30T22:00:00+00:00

Thursday 25 August 2005 @ 3:00 p.m.

Wake up, shower, and head over to the Warner Bros. lot, for the Joey shoot.

Dave Mandel’s friends with Scott Silveri, one of the creators of the show, who passed along an invitation to do a few scenes in one of this season’s new episodes. Being a whore for seeing myself on TV, I said yes. To sweeten the pot, I’m playing myself — though not the unmarried, Quinnster-less version I play on Degrassi.

Before I left, I got a call from another producer on the show who asked me to bring some artwork from home for the show’s version of my home office. I’ve brought along some of the framed, foreign editions of the Clerks posters. And when I get to the stage, the set dec folks load them out of my car while I’m led to my dressing room, and then makeup.

In makeup, I meet Matt LeBlanc, who seems like a really nice guy. He gives me a heads-up that the writers rewrote our scene last night. I tell him I rewrote the scene last night, to which he responds: “So that’s why you have all the jokes now.”

I smoke in my dressing room, going over my lines, until I’m brought down to the set for blocking. With a little time to kill, I head outside to smoke and run my lines. I’m joined by Matt and we chit-chat for a bit about the show and life on a sitcom in general, until Kevin Bright (the director, and co-creator of Friends) comes out to let us know we’re gonna start blocking.

Stage-based sitcoms are great, because it’s all about speed. There are usually four cameras shooting, so there’s no wait between set-ups. Matt, Miguel (the other guy in the scene) and I blow through our two scenes in about two hours, and then I say g’bye to everyone and head out. On the way to my car, I run into Jennifer Coolidge, who I met during the poetry event we hosted at our house back in the spring, as she’s a very cool person, we bullshit for a bit before I get going.

When I get home, I check out the sides for Southland Tales that Gail’s left at the bedroom door. It’s been about two years since I read the script, but even so, I don’t recognize any of what’s going on. Based on that, I start reading the new draft of the script.

Turns out Richard’s given the script a complete overhaul. What was once a film that played like a cross between Pulp Fiction and Short Cuts is now a quasi-sci-fi epic that plays like a cross between Dr. Strangelove and Donnie Darko. Whereas the previous draft was set in a recognizable world, this version’s set in the not-too-distant future, after a second terrorist attack on the US. Neither film is better than the other; both are pretty brilliant. This version, however, is more inscrutable — more Darko.

When I finish the script, I chit-chat with Jen in the bathroom as she gets ready for the Reel Paradise LA première.

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