So I shot a national infomercial with Joan Rivers on Wednesday, August 12th. What a great experience!! And hopefully I will have goodly airtime in the final program.
Just watching Joan at work was a lesson in professionalism and how to be a star, not a diva. This woman is a workhorse and will do take after take after take to get it just right. She improvises the majority of her dialog with ease and knows exactly what she wants. She also knows when she hasn't nailed a take and will say so. Though she stayed in her dressing room the majority of the time she wasn't filming, she didn't play spoiled diva. She would talk to people as she went to set, was affectionate and kind. And she was funny as hell! It was obvious that the crew enjoyed working with her.
Speaking of the crew, what an incredible professional crew this was. This was a four-camera set and there were a lot of people, but it really ran smoothly and quickly. Sure, there were a few moments of craziness once in a while, but I've been on sets before that had only a small crew and were completely disorganized. This was a pleasure.
I'm looking forward to seeing the final product and looking forward to getting some solid commercial tape. Yippee!!
Life is good!!
1 comment:
That must have been so interesting to work with her!! You know, I really started to like her when I saw her on Celebrity Apprentice -- that show is cheesy of course (I preferred the "regular people" version of The Apprentice), but I found Joan quite funny to watch and as you said, she seems to work hard. Glad you had such a positive experience!
~Ellen
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