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01/23/2004: "Token Chick on the Gay Movie"

Had so much fun today! I was the token girl on a gay movie, Tune Up, playing the roommate of one of the guys, who in order to try to pay the rent turns to gambling. It is a fabulously campy movie and definitley an experience on the set!

Today we shot the ending scene where I return to the crappy garage where the boys are working just as two of them get fired:

"Wrong again! Silly boy!" I exclaimed.

GASP!

All eight of them turn to look at me, as I enter dressed in a sparkly gown. Eight guys in this makeshift garage, not a one of them actually working on anything, in fact one is stating with extreme frustration that he will never learn to do a tune up as he uses a wrench on the strap of a car battery. But hey their butts look great in the garage jumpers so who cares?

"...I have not only won our rent at the casino but rent for the UPS boy (?), my trainer and all the mechanics for the rest of the year!"

Everyone is thrilled of course, one young lad runs over buries his head in my chest claiming "Mommy!" The lead throws his arms around another guy and looking into the camera sighs "My dream has come true! I'll never have to work again!" All the others gather around for a group hug as the two kiss and everyone lives happily ever after!

It was very strange for me, to be in the center of this gang of good-looking men, in the middle of a group hug and no one was groping me! In fact as we were shooting the reverse on some of the dialogue three of the guys who were off camera just broke into an impromptu threeway! The director had to break it up after a few minutes though since everyone on the set was getting distracted by the action.

All the guys were so sweet though, and we even had some down time to compare notes between gay and straight movies - duh, besides the obvious - one of them was exactly the same age as me and we discovered that we grew up about 20 miles from each other in Colorado, we compared notes on big snowstorms we remembered as kids. I was curious and took advantage of the opportunity, asking them questions about how they new they were gay, how old they were, how they started doing movies, had they had girlfriends...and they were so incredibly patient with my questions.

I learned that, unlike straight porn where you have to live in LA, many of the guys flew in especially for this shoot, in fact the company paid for it, and they get paid better than I do! A lot of them have real jobs too, in fact the guy who played the UPS guy was actually a UPS delivery man at night!


Well, that's the excitement for the day, I was home by one in the afternoon, took a nap (hey, 8:30 am is awfull early for me!) and am doing laundry. What a way to spend a Friday night, huh? Tomorrow I go back at noon to do a little more dialogue.