Day Four (Thursday, March 29)
Shooting day! I had to be awake at 530am, not 6 like I just posted.. I was picked up at 6 to go to the location. We drove about 45 minutes, which I slept the whole way! We were in a place called Pilar I believe. We arrived at the studio at 6:45 and sat to wait for the rest of the crew to show up. Breakfast was there waiting for us, so we ate, had some coffee and waited. 730 rolls around and people start showing up, hair was late so I was still told to wait. 8 comes around and they decide since hair is not there, we will start with makeup. I finish my makeup, the hair stylist arrives and I do hair. All of the shenanigans finishes around 10 or 1030, I put my outfit on and I head over to the studio to start shooting! Oh, I forgot to mention my part was a thai girl. Meaning I had to speak thai for almost all of my shots.. Thai is not an easy language.. I know I talk pretty fast, but they speak extra fast! Plus, the language is obviously not my first, so trying to learn it, while saying it really fast... makes the words jumble together sometimes! They brought in a coach that spoke both Thai and English, so she could help me with pronunciation. She told me my Thai accent was very good, that I seemed to have no problem picking up the sentences the script gave me! By the end of my shooting I basically felt like I was thai and could speak it fluently! I finished all of my shots by about 2 or 230, so we took a break for lunch and then a car took me back to my hotel. I get back to my hotel, wash my make up off, brush my hair and get ready to go do some more wandering! 10 minutes into my exploring I get a phone call saying I will need to go back to the studio, they forgot a shot of mine. I go back to the hotel, wait for a car to come get me and at about 6 they arrive, we drive to the location, get there about 715, since I took my makeup off they have to re-do it! After going through the whole beauty regimen again, I wait for the other girl to finish her parts and then I shoot my last one, literally took 5 minutes... but what can you do, its part of the job! I didn't really mind anyway, the crew and clients were really great and very very nice! Once we got the last shot, the director yelled thats a wrap and everyone went nuts!! Shouting, clapping, everything you can imagine! It was so exciting, usually at the end of a shoot everyone is excited, but I have never been a part of a production where they were this excited, it was so cool! After the real "thats a wrap" and getting the final call to go home, a car took me, the other actress, the language coach and the stand-in back into Buenos Aires. That all brings me back to right here, writing these entries for my blog. I am pretty tired after lots of travel time and being up early today, but I have tomorrow to sleep in then the rest of the day plus Saturday morning to do more exploring! I think an area called San Telmo is on the agenda for tomorrow, but I need to check things out a bit more. Another post to follow on my last day and a half in Argentina! Ciao!
Thursday, March 29, 2012
Day Two (Tuesday, March 27):
Free day! First actual day in Buenos Aires and I get to spend it doing whatever I want! I google places to go check out and then I head off shopping! My hotel is basically right downtown so it was nice because I could just walk to the places I wanted to go! I left around 1pm and didn't get back until about 7:30 or so! I went down a street called Sante Fe Avenue, which goes on forever with shops and restaurants, then I turned around, walked all the way back and then went to another street called Florida Street. It is a pedestrian street, so no vehicles are allowed and it is also filled with many shops! For lunch I stopped at a restaurant, which I don't remember the name, and got pumpkin ravioli.. sooooo good! The pasta was so fresh and soft and the whole thing was just delicious! Surprisingly, the whole 6 hours I was out "shopping" the only thing I purchased was my food... what the heck right? I came back to the hotel, hung out for a bit then went to bed. Day one probably doesn't sound that intersting..but it was so cool to walk around and see some of Buenos Aires, it's my first time in South America! The streets were very crowded and traffic was crazy! The only time there wasn't a store on the ave was when there was an intersection, where a street would be! How can there be this many stores and them all still open and running? I have no idea.
Day Three (Wednesday, March 28)
Day three started out with another free morning, to do whatever I wanted. I slept til 10, woke up and got semi ready, then went back to a couple of the shops where I saw things I wanted to buy! Of course, I didn't buy any of those items...but I did come across one pair of leather flat/loafer type shoes that i really enjoy, so I did purchase those! After a couple of hours out, I went back to my hotel, where a girl from the production house would meet me. She took me to a hair salon, where I got a hair treatment and my nails done! After spending a couple hours there doing all that beauty shenanigans, I got the car to take me to an area called Palermo. I read that it is basically the Soho of Buenos Aires. Many many streets with lots of shops, more high end stores, not necessarily name brands we know back in Canada, but high end Buenos Aires brands! Still very neat to go look around the area. I only spent a couple of hours there, because it started to get dark and I didn't want to be wandering around unknown streets by myself at night! I got a cab and went back to my hotel, where I ordered room service, watched tv shows on my computer and then went to bed, as I had to be awake at 6am this morning....
Free day! First actual day in Buenos Aires and I get to spend it doing whatever I want! I google places to go check out and then I head off shopping! My hotel is basically right downtown so it was nice because I could just walk to the places I wanted to go! I left around 1pm and didn't get back until about 7:30 or so! I went down a street called Sante Fe Avenue, which goes on forever with shops and restaurants, then I turned around, walked all the way back and then went to another street called Florida Street. It is a pedestrian street, so no vehicles are allowed and it is also filled with many shops! For lunch I stopped at a restaurant, which I don't remember the name, and got pumpkin ravioli.. sooooo good! The pasta was so fresh and soft and the whole thing was just delicious! Surprisingly, the whole 6 hours I was out "shopping" the only thing I purchased was my food... what the heck right? I came back to the hotel, hung out for a bit then went to bed. Day one probably doesn't sound that intersting..but it was so cool to walk around and see some of Buenos Aires, it's my first time in South America! The streets were very crowded and traffic was crazy! The only time there wasn't a store on the ave was when there was an intersection, where a street would be! How can there be this many stores and them all still open and running? I have no idea.
Day Three (Wednesday, March 28)
Day three started out with another free morning, to do whatever I wanted. I slept til 10, woke up and got semi ready, then went back to a couple of the shops where I saw things I wanted to buy! Of course, I didn't buy any of those items...but I did come across one pair of leather flat/loafer type shoes that i really enjoy, so I did purchase those! After a couple of hours out, I went back to my hotel, where a girl from the production house would meet me. She took me to a hair salon, where I got a hair treatment and my nails done! After spending a couple hours there doing all that beauty shenanigans, I got the car to take me to an area called Palermo. I read that it is basically the Soho of Buenos Aires. Many many streets with lots of shops, more high end stores, not necessarily name brands we know back in Canada, but high end Buenos Aires brands! Still very neat to go look around the area. I only spent a couple of hours there, because it started to get dark and I didn't want to be wandering around unknown streets by myself at night! I got a cab and went back to my hotel, where I ordered room service, watched tv shows on my computer and then went to bed, as I had to be awake at 6am this morning....
Argentina!
Alright, to start off.. I am going to be making multiple posts right now, that way the posts don't get to to long!!
First we will start up with the 2 days pre-Argentina. That takes us to Thursday March 22. Just a nice evening in the home of my Auntie Donna in Edmonton, making some tea.. usual evening activities. I am in the kitchen with my auntie while my mom is in a different room, where my phone happens to be. I hear her talking to someone on the phone and don't really think much of it until she says "Courtney". I go into the room she is in and she says "That was Pat" (Pat is my agent in Calgary). "She wants to know if you can go to Argentina tomorrow". Not quite what I was expecting from that!! Obviously my answer was yes! So I called my agent back, getting the few details she had and then hung up. She told me I was an option for a Sunsilk shampoo commercial in Buenos Aires, Argentina and they would need to fly me out ASAP if I was confirmed (this being around maybe 9pm). Freaking out, but keeping my cool at the same time, because i have been options for direct bookings many times, but have never actually booked any of them. I was to wait for a call from Pat and then go from there.. the only issue here being that me and my mom were getting up at 6am to drive to Camrose to tour Augustana and then drive back to Edmonton to tour U of A. I put my phone on the loudest it could go and went to bed. Waking up in the morning hearing no news, we went on the tours, spent the whole day out and then returned back to my auntie and uncles. By the evening I still hadn't heard anything so we assumed it was a no go. That night I went and spent the night at Janna's, thinking oh no need to worry about this anymore! 2:30 am rolls around and my agent from Bangkok emails me, wanting me to fill out a form with measurements and things about myself... of course at 2:30am I am not really in a state to do that, so I leave it until the morning. 8am rolls around and I get a phone call from my agent in Bangkok saying it is urgent and this form needs to be filled out, so very groggily, I wake up, drive back to my aunties and get this thing filled out. Once it is complete she tells me 3 hours and we will know the results. Maybe about 30-45 minutes later, we are eating breakfast when I hear my phone vibrate. We were eating so I obviously don't go check, but when we finish I look at my phone and I have a message from my agent reading "you are confirmed for sunsilk". Thats it. No Yay, congrats woohoo or anything. So I look at it, my eyes go huge as ever and I don't even remember what I said, perhaps "oh my lord". This quickly gets the attention of my family and they say what?! and I reply, I booked it. From then on it was complete chaos in the house! Trying to get my ready to go, figuring out flights etc etc. One stressful day let me tell you! By the end of Saturday, in the evening, I finally get a flight schedule, (saturday me and my mom were supposed to drive back to GP, but obviously this would not occur). I would leave Edmonton Sunday morning at 8am, fly to Toronto so I could re-pack and get my passport and then straight to Buenos Aires! These couple of days were probably the most stressful/exciting I have ever had! and by probably I mean they definitely were the most stressful and exciting!
I get to the airport bright and early Sunday, check in and am very very shocked to see the clients for the job have booked me first class all the way from Edmonton to Buenos Aires! BEST DAY EVER. So I was treated quite lovely, with very roomy chairs, "champagne or orange juice?" and a very nice menu with a selection of delicious food (not the iffy kind I usually get when I fly in economy). I get to Toronto, re-pack, grab my passport and back to the airport I go. This time the plane was so huge!! My seat reclined all the way back to flat, so it was basically a bed to sleep. They gave me a normal sized pillow and a huge blanket! I also got a little bag with socks, an eye cover, lotion, lip balm, ear plugs, toothbrush and paste and mentos! WIN. The menus are the first class flights were nuts, to save space, words and reading, I'll just post pictures of them below! Ahh yes can't forget.. when I was in Toronto waiting for my flight, I had the option to go into the Maple Leaf Lounge, which I never have before because I never fly first class! So I went in, and you get free everything! Food, drinks (alcoholic and non alcoholic), wifi, showers if you need too! It was so sweet, but I felt slightly weird and out of place, as I was the youngest by atleast 15-20 years!
Once arriving in Buenos Aires, Pedro, from the production company was waiting with a sign that had my name on it. From there we went straight to the fitting and hair test! I basically just tried on 5000 outfits and they tested my hair to see how it would work with the light and how I would have to flip it etc. After that, day one in Argentina ended and I was taken back to my hotel.
First we will start up with the 2 days pre-Argentina. That takes us to Thursday March 22. Just a nice evening in the home of my Auntie Donna in Edmonton, making some tea.. usual evening activities. I am in the kitchen with my auntie while my mom is in a different room, where my phone happens to be. I hear her talking to someone on the phone and don't really think much of it until she says "Courtney". I go into the room she is in and she says "That was Pat" (Pat is my agent in Calgary). "She wants to know if you can go to Argentina tomorrow". Not quite what I was expecting from that!! Obviously my answer was yes! So I called my agent back, getting the few details she had and then hung up. She told me I was an option for a Sunsilk shampoo commercial in Buenos Aires, Argentina and they would need to fly me out ASAP if I was confirmed (this being around maybe 9pm). Freaking out, but keeping my cool at the same time, because i have been options for direct bookings many times, but have never actually booked any of them. I was to wait for a call from Pat and then go from there.. the only issue here being that me and my mom were getting up at 6am to drive to Camrose to tour Augustana and then drive back to Edmonton to tour U of A. I put my phone on the loudest it could go and went to bed. Waking up in the morning hearing no news, we went on the tours, spent the whole day out and then returned back to my auntie and uncles. By the evening I still hadn't heard anything so we assumed it was a no go. That night I went and spent the night at Janna's, thinking oh no need to worry about this anymore! 2:30 am rolls around and my agent from Bangkok emails me, wanting me to fill out a form with measurements and things about myself... of course at 2:30am I am not really in a state to do that, so I leave it until the morning. 8am rolls around and I get a phone call from my agent in Bangkok saying it is urgent and this form needs to be filled out, so very groggily, I wake up, drive back to my aunties and get this thing filled out. Once it is complete she tells me 3 hours and we will know the results. Maybe about 30-45 minutes later, we are eating breakfast when I hear my phone vibrate. We were eating so I obviously don't go check, but when we finish I look at my phone and I have a message from my agent reading "you are confirmed for sunsilk". Thats it. No Yay, congrats woohoo or anything. So I look at it, my eyes go huge as ever and I don't even remember what I said, perhaps "oh my lord". This quickly gets the attention of my family and they say what?! and I reply, I booked it. From then on it was complete chaos in the house! Trying to get my ready to go, figuring out flights etc etc. One stressful day let me tell you! By the end of Saturday, in the evening, I finally get a flight schedule, (saturday me and my mom were supposed to drive back to GP, but obviously this would not occur). I would leave Edmonton Sunday morning at 8am, fly to Toronto so I could re-pack and get my passport and then straight to Buenos Aires! These couple of days were probably the most stressful/exciting I have ever had! and by probably I mean they definitely were the most stressful and exciting!
I get to the airport bright and early Sunday, check in and am very very shocked to see the clients for the job have booked me first class all the way from Edmonton to Buenos Aires! BEST DAY EVER. So I was treated quite lovely, with very roomy chairs, "champagne or orange juice?" and a very nice menu with a selection of delicious food (not the iffy kind I usually get when I fly in economy). I get to Toronto, re-pack, grab my passport and back to the airport I go. This time the plane was so huge!! My seat reclined all the way back to flat, so it was basically a bed to sleep. They gave me a normal sized pillow and a huge blanket! I also got a little bag with socks, an eye cover, lotion, lip balm, ear plugs, toothbrush and paste and mentos! WIN. The menus are the first class flights were nuts, to save space, words and reading, I'll just post pictures of them below! Ahh yes can't forget.. when I was in Toronto waiting for my flight, I had the option to go into the Maple Leaf Lounge, which I never have before because I never fly first class! So I went in, and you get free everything! Food, drinks (alcoholic and non alcoholic), wifi, showers if you need too! It was so sweet, but I felt slightly weird and out of place, as I was the youngest by atleast 15-20 years!
Once arriving in Buenos Aires, Pedro, from the production company was waiting with a sign that had my name on it. From there we went straight to the fitting and hair test! I basically just tried on 5000 outfits and they tested my hair to see how it would work with the light and how I would have to flip it etc. After that, day one in Argentina ended and I was taken back to my hotel.
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