Published
by Desert Breeze Publishing:
Wednesday, August 16
Okay, things aren't quite so bad as I thought they'd be
Monday morning. Maybe it was stage fright, even though there's no stage? The
cameras do kind of look like prehistoric monsters.
Anyway, the first two days of shooting weren't so bad.
Mostly because I was doing all my solo shots, where Jess has run away from the
colony and trying to survive out in the wilderness by herself. The animal
wranglers are pretty nice, and some of them know who Mom is, so they were nearly
asking for her autograph. You should have seen some of the other actors staring,
when they let me handle the falcon that brings Jess this mutant-looking rabbit
with bug eyes. Got to play with the wolf cubs, too. They said I have "the
touch." Well, duh. You grow up playing with wild animals, you know how to
talk to them, y'know?
I was feeling pretty good, other than being a little
ticked that they changed some of Jess's lines. Hello? We're on an alien planet.
What makes them think that the aliens speak English? It's not like we have a
Universal Translator or anything. They cut all my lines where Jess talks to the
animals and then kind of slaps herself for being stupid enough to think they'd
understand. Of course, they're working on bigger hints that the animals who protect
Jess and bring her to Bridger are aliens. So I guess that works out. I hope it's
better on film than it felt when I was saying the lines.
You know how we were goofing around, pretending we were
scouting and setting up traps for colony security and helping Bridger escape
traps and all that fun stuff? We were such little kids, but it was so much fun.
There were a few times during the shooting when I could actually slide back
into that pretending so hard it became real. That made everything a lot better.
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