My Awesome Experience on an AT&T Print Ad!

Being on a print ad may not sound like much fun but it turned out to be a really fun experience! I got to hang out with a lot of kids my age and have a lot of fun and mess around. The set was located at a really small cute house in a nice neighborhood. The main thing I would be doing is hitting a piñata with a couple of kids at a birthday party. It was really fun. We went crazy with the piñata and since I was doing baseball at the time, I hit it really hard like I was batting. This was when I was like in second grade so of course I was a little hyper. We ended up breaking the piñata multiple times but luckily they had spares. Candy spilled all over the floor every time we broke open the piñata. There was so much but all we were allowed to do was collect it but not eat it. I think it had to do with the fact that it was too much sugar. But we didn't care. We all ate a few pieces after each shot was over. Being with the set teacher was also pretty fun. She had all these fun games that were kind of addicting. But she also taught me how to play the game Uno. It was really fun once I had figured out how to play. I wasn't the best out of the group I was playing with but I wasn't the worst either. After countless more games of Uno and a few more pictures later my mom and I were on our way home. It was a short day with pretty good pay and we got fed really well too. So in my eyes it was a win-win. This may not have been the biggest job I've ever done but it certainly was really fun and I wouldn't trade this wonderful memory for the world.

My Awesome Experience on a Mazda Commercial!

The time when I was on a Mazda commercial was actually pretty fun and cool. The main actress who was Minnie Driver. I guess she's pretty well-known but I've never really heard of her. The only reason I really know her is because my mom kind of told me who she was. She currently stars in a TV show "About A Boy." Anyway, this commercial was about this an Earth Day event-type thing that Mazda was hosting. In one of the scenes, I played on a jungle gym in the background with another kid who was pretty nice. I never really got to see the commercial until recently.  I was sorta bummed because I got blurred out.  But again, this happens all the time. What matters is that you have a great time doing it and you meet new people. I attached the video just in case you wanted to see it. I'm on the weird cage-like apparatus in the background. I'm wearing a plaid orange, brown, and white shirt. One thing I remember vividly about that job was how many sores and blisters I got on my hands after climbing around on that jungle gym for a few hours. That may sound like a horrible day but it was actually pretty fun once I got over the excruciating pain of course. After every shot, we would run to the medic to get Aloe Vera rubbed all over our hands. It was weird and slimy but it soothed the pain.  The next scene was easier.  We got to paint.  The one super cool thing was that this was the first job where I got to keep the wardrobe.  My wardrobe was a cool button down blue stripped Shawn White shirt.  Shawn White is my favorite clothing.  I also remember this was the only job that had a lot of bees everywhere.  We didn't go to get food too often because it was swarmed by bees.  The wardrobe lady was the only one that got stung.  I think that is why she didn't feel like collecting the wardrobe.  I know this wasn't my longest blog and most interesting one, but this day was actually really fun and I would gladly do it all over again!

A wider image of me in the background.

A more zoomed in really blurry image of me in the background.

My Awesome Experience on a Food Lion Commercial!

 Now this blog will probably not top my last blog about the Jungle Book, but nonetheless this job was still pretty cool. The reason why this job was super cool was because they brought a real living lion onto the set! It was super cool and scary! Another cool thing about this was that it was a two-day shoot and they were only a half of a day long. The location of the shoot was at a school somewhere in downtown LA. The campus was pretty nice and I'm positively sure I had filmed there before. But anyway, the scenes I did were actually pretty fun and tasty. I got to sit in a cafeteria and eat real delicious food. I also sat at a table right in front of the camera. I don't know if you can see me or not because things change in an instant in this industry so all you can really do is cross your fingers and hope your scene is still in there. They also said that the commercial was going to air in the east coast so I haven't seen it on TV.  But, I got to take really cool pictures of the lion! When they were going to bring the lion on the set, they locked everybody up (especially the kids) in classrooms and told everybody to be absolutely still and quiet. It was about a 20 minute preparation of getting everybody in a safe locked area out of the lion's sight. The crew would communicate via walkie-talkie "Lion coming to set."  His wrangler was with him the whole time feeding him pieces of meat along the way.  We would all watch through the windows. When the lion wasn't on set, he was outside in this giant metal cage where it slept most of the time. He was so beautiful! It was awesome! After the lion's scene was done and I was back on set, my mom walked over to the lion cage and talked with the trainer for a little bit. It turned out that he had two other lions at home along with many other animals. Most of their animal's especially the lions worked quite often. My mom got to get pretty close to the cage and take pictures while it was sleeping. Overall that was a pretty cool day and it was really cool being on a set with a real life lion!

All these photos are of the lion being walked to set by the wrangler.

These two bottom pictures are of the lion in it's cage.

My Awesome Experience on Jungle Book!

My experience on Jon Favreau's Jungle Book Disney movie was incredibly awesome!!!  It was truly one of the coolest jobs I have ever done.  I know I say that a lot but I truly mean it.  My mom submitted a picture of me for this job.  The casting company posting the job contacted my mom and asked her to send another picture of me in my swimming trunks.  This was to see if I had the body shape of Mowgli.  We didn't hear back from them again for some time so my mom and I just assumed I didn't get the job.  Thankfully, we were wrong.  They contacted us to see if if I was available for an interview on a Thursday.  My mom said "yes" and the next day we headed to LA Center Studios in downtown LA.  This was the first time I had seen an entire soundstage in blue screen  When we walked in, Neel Sethi (AKA Mowgli) was in the middle of a scene.  Jon Favreau, the director of this film, was telling Neel little notes between takes over a microphone.  Jon Favreau was joking around with Neel a lot and made little heart noises over the microphone to be funny.  My mom tried to contain her laughter.  We sat with the puppeteers and watched Neel in action.  He was amazing!  He had so much energy and acted perfectly even though he was talking to a hand puppet or sometimes a blue wall.  Later, the PA introduced us to the set teacher Lois.  We recognized one another immediately but weren't sure from where.  We all hugged.  We remember her being super sweet and funny.  She was one of the best set teachers we'd ever had the pleasure of meeting.  Eventually through conversations, we all realized we met on the movie "Bad Words."  My mom and I were so excited when I was asked to work the following day as a stand-in for Mowgli.  On Friday, I met so many different people from the actor, to the directors, producers, puppeteers, special effects crew, simul cam crew, stunt crew, electrical and grip crew.  Even though I came during the last week of filming, everyone was very nice, warm and welcoming.  Another perk was that I ate like a king. Everything was delicious!  I had lobster with filet mignon one day.  Every hour there would be new fresh snacks at crafty.  Another day, we had an ice cream truck and a taco truck on the lot.  Jon Favreau is a real foody and made sure his entire team was fed well.  He really set the tone for a super friendly and fun environment.  He would actually DJ between takes.  I also had so much fun with all three Mowglis!  They were nice, witty, and really fun.  Every day after lunch, Neel or Seth (Neel's main body double/stand in) would play football with Travis (stunt guy) and some of the crew.  Seth's nickname was Nowgli which stands for not Mowgli.  They made me feel like a part of the team.  Mateo's (Neel's second body double/stand in) nickname was Matowgli which was a combination of Mateo and Mowgli.  They gave me the nickname Lowgli which stands for late Mowgli.  Mateo and I weren't really that good at football but we still played.  We would sometimes just hang out and play video games which was cool.  We became really close friends on set and stuck together.  Jungle Book had two sound stages on the lot.  While Neel was filming in one, the doubles/stand ins would be in the second soundstage for the setup of the next scene for Neel.  At the end of everyday, I would get a call to come to set the following day.  I was super excited!  I ended up working for six days total.  The last day, they said I could stay for the wrap party,  It was so amazing!  I didn't expect anything.  I ended up getting t-shirts from the different crew teams, hats, a Jungle Book poster signed by Neel, and a commemorative Jungle Book coin from Jon Favreau.  They had champagne for the adults and they did toasts.  Everyone hugged and it was super emotional.  All these people had worked together for the better part of a year.  Jon Favreau DJ'd and the Mowglis did a song and dance.  They gave me a line at the end of their song which was totally unexpected but super cool!  I've never had the opportunity to be a part of something so huge.  I felt so lucky and blessed!  I was only called to set to stand in a couple of times during the week I worked.  I don't think I was really needed but they kept inviting me back.  I'm not complaining because this experience was incredible.  I learned so much from different people including an Actress named Sara who was so sweet and gave me tips for future jobs.  Since the job, I go to Travis's gym called JAM for parkour.  He is a really cool and nice guy.  Just a week ago, Seth and I got called to the same job Jane the Virgin.  The PA MC from Jungle Book works this set so we saw her too.  It was so great to Seth, his dad Kirk and MC.  They all got invited to the crew the Jungle Book premiere in Hollywood.  They said the movie was great!  My mom took my siblings and I to the movie on Thursday.  It is definitely a must see!!

Me on the set with Sean (Stunt Coordinator) standing in for Neel while the cameras reset.  This isn't the completed CGI effect.  Sean was incredibly nice.  I'm sad to say I just came to find out that he recently passed away. 

From left to right: Mateo (Matowgli), Neel Sethi (Mowgli), Seth (Nowgli), and me (Lowgli).

All three Mowglis dancing at the wrap party with Jon Favreau DJing in the backround.

Sarah and I on the last day of the Jungle Book.

Me with a super nice PA at the wrap party. 

A picture of the wrap party inside the main soundstage for Jungle Book.

This is a picture of Allan (puppeteer) and I. 

This is the a picture of me and Sean without all the  cool CGI effects.

Lois and I at the wrap party.

Sarah being funny while giving me a big hug at the wrap party.

A picture of all four Mowglis and the stunt guys. The stunt guys from left to right: Travis, Curtis, and Sean.

The front side of the commemorative coin that Jon Favreau gave everyone on set.

The backside of the commemorative coin.

My Awesome Experience on House M.D.!

The TV show House was one of the earliest jobs I worked on.  House M.D. is a medical show similar to Grey's Anatomy.  It ended in 2012.  It was a pretty popular show.  It still plays in syndication.  It was really cool filming on that set.  It was the final season so that made it way cooler. The episode title was "Love is Blind".  Trust me when I say this...it took forever to find out the name of the episode.  On set, I actually got to meet Hugh Laurie many times.  He was super nice so the experience even more enjoyable. In fact, he was so nice that he actually let kids crawl all over him...literally!  They were climbing all over him like a jungle gym hanging from his neck and arm and he was totally cool with it.  The scene I did was super cool.  They lined up all the kids to see who they wanted to feature.  Luckily, they chose me!  I had to pretend to draw a sketch of House in Africa helping people.  Instead, I my character drew Transformers.  As we turned in our pictures, he gave us money for our hard work.  When I turned in my drawing, he picked it up and got angry.  He abruptly gave it back to me and said "Hey, no Transformer drawings Slick!"  He then took my dollar back.  The camera turned on my face to see my disappointment.  House was having the kids do this because he was lying to his mom.  It was really cool being featured.  It was even better when my grandparents saw me on TV and showed me the scene.  They were so excited and showed friends and family.  It also wasn't a bad work day because I got to go to work in my favorite (at the time) T-Rex pajamas.  How cool is that!  After that scene, we just had to draw while House was talking.  Pretty easy work day! My mom also had fun too.  Hugh Laurie went to the holding area and introduced himself to all the moms.  I had so much fun on this job.  It's a shame the show's over because I would've liked to have been on it again.                                                                      

^- Me after House takes away my dollar and tells that I drew the wrong picture. 

The transformer picture that my character drew.>

 A wider image of me turning my drawing into House. -v

                                                                               

       
 A more zoomed in picture of me turning my drawing into House. ->

My Awesome Experience on a UPS Commercial!

The time I was on a UPS commercial was really fun but pretty cold. When I got called for the job, they said we needed soccer gear.  The night before, my mom had to rush out to buy me soccer cleats and shin guards.  The soccer cleats were so cool.  They were silver with a cool Nike swish.  We got to set super early in the morning.  I went straight to wardrobe.  They dressed me up in a yellow soccer jersey.  There were two soccer teams.  I looked like a professional soccer player.  The catch was that instead of playing in the nice, bright and sunny day, they turned on a rain machine over and over during retakes.  Let me just say, it was freezing outside and we had nothing except for a thin jerseys that was designed for the wind to get in and a pair thin small shorts. They made it rain by putting theses giant sprinklers on top of this one huge tall black crane.  It sprayed our half of the field. The water was really cold and came down in big droplets so it actually hurt when it fell down. We ended up getting so cold that they had to set up heaters for us when they were reseting and moving cameras for shots from different angles. We did many takes for the same scene.  Trust me this wasn't like a quick thing.  It took about two hours in the rain to do the rain scenes. Some kids got so cold that they couldn't even move. Now this may sound a little unpleasant and uncomfortable.  But, I actually did have fun when I got over the initial shock of the rain. Some of the kids that were getting really wet were saying really funny stuff that made me laugh.  Plus, I new a lot of the kids there so I got to hang out with them and play soccer with them which was really cool. The field we were playing on was actually pretty nice and popular.  A lot of people stopped by our set and watched us filming which made us feel really special.  In between those scenes, we made our way over to the catering for breakfast. I was so busy playing and focusing on the rain that I didn't even realize how hungry I was. I ate like a wolf and just gorged down an omelete with other food. My mom was pretty surprised because I don't usually eat much. Another scene we did was where I was with a group of kids eating cake behind a car while a kid got his present delivered from UPS to his mom. It was fun. I got to talk to some really funny kids while eating cake and drinking punch. That scene didn't take to long to finish which was nice. But the next scene surprised us entirely. They told us it was going to be a fun and exciting one. When we got there we saw a school bus under the same dark crane that held the sprinkler earlier this morning. They told us we were going to run through the rain and onto the bus. A lot of the boys groaned including me because some of us were still drying off from this morning and some of us had finally dried off. It was hard to get used to the rain at first after it had been a while but we got through it. But at the time we were filming that scene it started to get really breezy. It was a long line of us getting on the bus so we ended spending a lot of time in the rain. One kid got so cold that he almost couldn't get up the stairs. The kid behind me was freezing.  So he decided to pick up the kid and run up the stairs with him in his arms. It was super funny but I also was grateful because I was getting pretty cold out there. We got through the scene pretty quick which was really great.  Once we finished this scene, they said we were wrapped. So I said bye to all the people that I met and already knew and my mom and I hit the road (after I had a few snacks of course).

 (Me during a soccer match during the  commercial)-^

<-(A wider image of the picture above this one)




(Me in the rain scene next to the person in the number four jersey. I'm the middle person of the yellow jerseys)-v

My Awesome Experience on Anger Management!

Being on the show Anger Management was a really fun and exciting experience.  I was the only kid there and I got to meet a lot of nice people. Pretty much everyone on set was really nice but the two people who really stood out to me were the director and the studio teacher.  I have actually had the pleasure of meeting the director a couple of times before this day. I met him when I just started doing background work.  He was the director for Disney's Good Luck Charlie. The second time, I met him on the show Jessie. He had me do an impromptu audition and later told me what I would be doing in that particular scene. When the PA first took me to meet the director on Anger Management, I was pretty excited.  When I saw who it was, I was thrilled. I recognized him instantly. His name is Bob Koherr. When I first shook his hand, I said something that I guess he thought was kind of funny.  He sorta chuckled when I said, "Hi Bob, nice to see you again."  It had been a while since our last meeting so of course he didn't know who I was but he was nice about it.  After our introduction, he brought me on the set and told me what I'd be doing.  I was supposed to be the grandchild of Cheech Marin.  All I had to do was sit at the dining table and pretend to color which I enjoy doing.  Bob kept making sure I was okay and asked me if I was having a good time. He was super nice and when a person finished their scene, he'd thank them and have the crew clap...pretty cool.  The other person who was really nice and stood out to me was the set teacher. She was really nice and pretty easy-going.  We mostly hung out and chatted.  I feel really bad that I can't remember her name for the life of me.  Overall, the day was pretty easy and quick which is always nice.

My Awesome Experience on a Christopher Titus Music Video!

Being on a Christopher Titus music video was very different from what I was used to. For those of you who don't know who Christopher Titus is, he is a stand-up comedian who's had a rough life before he actually got picked up and noticed. He kind of incorporates his bad childhood with his comedy.  I got called for his music video called "Arm the Children."  It is exactly as it sounds.  It's a music video about gun control.  You wouldn't think so because he arms all the kids with fake guns that look like real guns.  When they first explained this too me, I wondered if this was for real and if this was even legal (this was a few years back and I was really gullible). When they brought me on set to start filming my mom and I were cracking up. There was this guy dressed up as Jesus holding a bucket of guns that he later hands out to the kids. He eventually he takes out this fake big shotgun and hands it to like this eight year old girl. The message he tries to get through his video is to end gun violence by kind of making people realize how horrible guns are and that since so many people have them in the world why not just give them to children.  Of course he's totally kidding.  He is really trying to prove his point on making people realize what a bad idea guns are.  He had us sing a song "Arm the Children" while we jumped around waving the fake guns in the air.  Christopher Titus was a super nice and funny guy who just talked and talked to all of us. At the end of the day he even gave us one of his CDs from his comedy stuff.  He said something really funny that I still remember to this day. We were just about to start filming and one of the guys was joking around and saying something like "This awful what were doing" or something like "Is this even legal?"  Then Christopher laughed and said "Yeah...we'll be remembered for this one. This kids will remember as the day Christopher Titus got arrested. They'll look back at this video in twenty years and say hey remember the day that Christopher Titus got arrested?" Everyone was laughing really hard. Christopher Titus also laughed at his own joke.  It was a pretty short day and somehow he made it fun even though it was a serious message he was trying to convey.                                

My Awesome Experience on True Detective!

My awesome experience on True Detective was a really cool and exciting experience.I actually was really fortunate on being on the show twice. I was on a earlier episode with my younger sister and older brother and then I was on a later episode where I was supposed to be a homeless person with my younger sister on the streets of downtown LA. I wasn't actually with my real younger sister, they just paired me up with a small six year old who didn't even really look like me. Anyway, on the first episode I was on we were filming at this outdoor mall. They paired me up with this middle-aged woman and told me that I would be her son for the scene. For that episode it wasn't particularly interesting but it wasn't boring either. I mainly walked around a lot but I did get to cross behind the main actors (Collin Ferrel and Rachel McAdams) so I got to kind of watch the scene and listen to it so it was kind of like watching a really long repetitive trailer live. We did more shots just like this and then they moved me around a lot so that they could film at different angles. They next time I was on the show was way cooler! That time we had to film at a more sketchy area but there was a lot more action there. When I first arrived at set they were burning a car. It was super cool! After I got checked in they decided to get me ready for the scene. They dressed me up in really trashy clothes and made me look really dirty. They used this spray/liquid type of thing and sprayed and rubbed it all over my face and hands. By the time I had gone through wardrobe and hair and makeup I looked like a legitimate downtown LA bum. My mom couldn't stop laughing. She would have taken pictures but she was worried that she would get in trouble. They were very secret about this whole set. They had a codename for it and everything. On sets that are very top secret they usually don't want you to take pictures, text, call, or use social media. Sometimes I think they disable your phone or they keep them until the end of the day. There have situations where if they found out you posted anything about the set they will sue you. But anyway,when I got on the set I started to get a little scared. They had us film under a freeway in the most sketchiest part of downtown LA and I'm pretty sure I was standing in a real homeless person camp. They even had trash cans lit on fire besides the dirt road and next to every cardboard, dirt, or plastic house. It was also really disgusting. There was trash everywhere and it was really hard to tell who was an actual homeless person and who was actually part of the scene. To make things even more stressful the teacher and the Pa told me that I needed to make sure the little girl (who played my younger sister) didn't get run over by the car that the camera was on or that she didn't light herself on fire with the countless burning trash cans surrounding us. In the end, you could really see no one face except for the little girl which was really disappointing but I'm happy for her because she's actually a really nice and funny little person once you get to know her. After we did that scene we broke for lunch which doesn't sound that interesting but it actually turned out to be really creepy. There was a lot of people that came in that looked like real homeless people and they just served themselves food. I mean they looked exactly like homeless people and kind of acted like them. One of them had a really dirty worn-out teddy bear that he carried with him, he also had a really messed up suit case that he carried with him everywhere. It was weird but I still had a good time. I talked to the set teacher and she was actually really nice. She told me all these cool and funny stories that she had lived through and my mom and I must have talked with her for hours because by the time they told us we were wrapped it was midnight. So this pretty much concludes my blog for this week. I had a great time on both of these days and I will definetly always remember this job.

My Awesome Experience on Jane the Virgin!

When I was on the CW show "Jane the Virgin" it was really fun and exciting. The set we would be filming at was an actual operating Target store. So they had a major portion of the store reserved for us which was really cool. We got to walk in through the back door and film in a roped off area of the store. A lot of people tried to look and many just stopped and watched us. I was with my sister on this job which made it not as great as it could have been but it was still fun. Our part in this episode was to be the kids of a latino family shopping on Black Friday. We were called Team Fuentes. Team Fuentes consisted of a lady who played my mom, a middle-aged man who played my dad, my sister (sadly), and me. The scene we were doing was basically where our family was just walking around with a shopping cart on Black Friday looking for some stuff to buy. We ended up walking by the main actors a lot and crossing in front of the camera a lot (but I don't know if we were seen because I never got around to watching the episode). In fact during one of the takes we got to talk to the actors! We got to talk to Jane Villanueva (Gina Rodriguez), Rafael Solano (Justin Baldoni), and Alba Villanueva (Ivonne Coll). We got to talk to Ivonne Coll many times because she was so happy go-lucky and she would always ask us if we were ready and she would always say hello. She was also really funny. The rest of the cast was great too! Gina Rodriguez and Justin Baldoni said in a really excited and friendly voice "Hey it's Team Fuentez"! Then we all laughed and they asked us for our names. They also asked us if we were having a good time and if this was very exciting. They were really nice people and we got to talk them until the camera was ready to start filming again. Another cool thing was that I got to see one of the PA's from a movie I had done earlier that year called "The Jungle Book"! Her name was MC. She was super nice both on the Jungle Book and off. It was really great to see her and it was great talking to her. She told us about what she had being doing lately and the progress of the Jungle Book lately. And we could've talked for way longer but sadly she was super busy and we had to get back to set. But she did wave at me during one of the camera breaks which was really nice of her. Anyway, we basically did a bunch of scenes like the ones we were doing which got a little old after a while but not boring. But then during one of the shots we got to say "hi" to Andrea Navedo who plays Xiomara Villanueva on the show. She was nice but we didn't really get to into a conversation like we did with the other actors because the camera had just started to film. It was still pretty cool though. After we had finished the scene we were going to a shopping cart race against the Villanueva family but they were running behind schedule so they had to cut it out which was really unfortunate because it sounded really cool and it also meant we would have been seen more and got to be with the main cast more which would have been cool but I was still happy that I was there that day at all. So then we drove back to what used to be the Marvel Studios (it now is Manhattan Beach Studios or MBS) because that was where we had parked. We said bye to our "mom" who was actually super funny and energetic so that was cool and also made the experience way better. So I guess this is the end of my blog for this week. Like I always say, I had a great time on this job and I hope I get to do something like this again, and I mean it. I always have fun on these jobs and this is really the type of stuff I like to do which make the job way better. I also like doing this because I get to meet new people who are very happy because they love their jobs and everything about it. So that is why I always say I had a great time and why I always say I hope I get to do something like this again.                                              

                                   ^                                       The Villanueva Family and Rafael Solano with my sister in the yellow Team Fuentes shirt to the far right  behind Alba Villanueva. 

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My Awesome Experience on Horrible Bosses 2!

My experience on Horrible Bosses 2 was a really fun and exciting one. My mom and I had to drive all the way to this empty warehouse somewhere in LA. They had us wait in these really wide and big trailers in the parking lot of the warehouse. It was nice and cool in there which was good because it was a really warm afternoon that day. It wasn't that bad while we were waiting and it certainly wasn't that long either. We had crafty nearby and it was nice and quiet so I was able to relax and finish my homework that I needed to finish. When they called us to set and I was ecstatic. My mom told me the actors working on this movie shoot were huge and that they were really funny. They were one of my mom's favorite actors so I think she was more excited than I was. The actor's that were in the scene were Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis, and Charlie Day. The scene was really funny but sadly when my parents went to go see the movie they told me that they had cut the scene out. The scene was basically where my siblings and my mother Lupe and I were working on a factory assembly line because there was a mix-up in the company where people thought it was "Put Your Kid To Work Day" instead of "Bring Your Kid To Work Day".  It was really funny and those three actors had some super funny lines but I can't remember them because this was like three years ago and some of those lines probably aren't G-rated. But the day got even better. During each of the shots, we would play games with Lupe, Lidia Porto, and then during one of the shots Charlie Day actually walked up to us and started to talking to us! It was awesome and he was really nice and funny. We talked for a little bit until the cameras were ready to start shooting again. He was a really great person and was actually super cool. Anyway, after we broke for lunch we ran into Jason Bateman in the parking lot! That was awesome and when my mom asked if I could take a picture with him he said "yes"! All those things made my day. But it got even better! After I took the picture with Jason Bateman he talked to me a bit and we were suddenly talking about a movie we had done only like a few months earlier called Bad Words. He was also super nice and funny and wasn't rude at all! But then when my mom and I were about to sit down to eat our lunch we ran into Charlie Day! We already knew that he was super nice and he asked me if I had fun on the set earlier today. I told him "yes" (which was no lie) and then we talked for a little bit and he said some funny comments that made my mom and I both laugh. Then when my mom asked for a picture he said, "Of course!" As you can probably tell that was one of the greatest days of my life! I got to meet all these great actors, talk to them, and get pictures with them! I still have those pictures and I'm sure I will never ever loose them or get rid of them! This was an awesome day and I hope they make a Horrible Bosses 3 and call me to work on it!

 

  (Me and Jason Bateman)                                    (My brother, me, and Charlie Day)                                                                                                                       

My Awesome Experience on Haunted Hathaways!

When I was on the show "Haunted Hathaways" it was really fun. I got to see all the different sets that appeared on the show and I got to meet the director and the producer. The soundstage I was on was really big and had so many rooms in it. I almost got lost multiple times just trying to find the restroom. When I first walked onto the set the PAs told us that this was a very special episode. It was supposed to be like the big episode of the season because the main actors were visiting the ghost world for the very first time. For those of you who don't know what the show "Haunted Hathaways" is, it's basically a tv show on Nickelodeon that finished towards the end of last year. It was a family comedy show about a normal family consisting of one mom and two girls meeting a ghost family of one dad and two boys. They end up living in the same house together and become a close family together. Anyway, on my to the set I would be filming at I saw the ghost world set. It was super cool! There was people dressed up in cool scary costumes with really scary makeup on. The set I was on wasn't as cool but the scene was amazing! On my scene it was supposed to the main actor's birthday at a bakery which the mom owned, but there was a very cool surprise for the birthday girl. It was the band Rixton performing, live in the bakery, their hit single called Me and My Broken Heart! It was awesome! It was like our own private little concert! A plus was when the episode was released I was able to see myself clearly! That day was so fun and will be something I will always remember.

My Awesome Experience on Jessie!

The time I when I went on the Disney Channel tv show called "Jessie" was an unforgettable moment. It used to be my sister's and I favorite tv show (until I stopped watching it and then it went off the air). It was a really funny show that was really popular a few years back. Anyway, at the time "Jessie" was being filmed at a small studio located somewhere in Downtown LA or Hollywood. When we walked into the soundstage "Jessie" was being filmed at I was dumbstruck. I could see all the set pieces and different rooms that were included in the show regularly. It was so cool! It was also a major plus when it turned out that everyone on the set was very nice! That makes a major difference because it makes it easier to have a great time if the environment is a very neutral and happy one. The PA (production assistant) told us to wait on these bleachers that overlooked all the sets. There was also TVs above us so that you could see what they were filming. When the PAs decided to put us in school they said they had a cool surprise for us. What they didn't tell us was that they were going to bring in two of the biggest stars on the show to meet us! They brought in Cameron Boyce and Peyton List who play as Luke and Emma on the show. They were really nice and we got to shake hands with them and everything. When they finally called us on the set we found out what we would be doing. I also found out what the episode was called, which you usually never find out. I learned that we would  pretending that we would be attending a fun fair/carnival event that was being thrown by the Ross's kids school has a fundraiser, and the episode was called "Pain in the Rear Window". There wasn't anything big that I had to do. We just had to walk around, eat popcorn, and play carnival games. So it was actually pretty cool. But what was even cooler was when Jessie (AKA Debbie Ryan) talked to us during each shot. After that we pretty much sat around and did homework until it was time to go. But right as we were leaving they were going to bring out the cool giant Asian Water Moniter (also known as Mr. Kipling) lizard that they have on the show. But my mom said we had to go. But overall this was a great experience and one that I will not soon forget.

My Awesome Experience on a Best Buy Commercial!

The time I was on a Best Buy commercial was really fun and cool. We were shooting at a park filled with a bunch of food trucks that the commercial had ordered for the set. The scene was basically about how a girl who owned one of the food trucks was showing the other owner how to post something on her new phone. It sounds boring but the commercial was actually pretty fun. I got to run around the park and I got to eat a lot of food at the food trucks. Also when it began to get dark the set builders put lights all around the park and lit it up. It looked spectacular. The food on the food trucks was actually pretty good too. So basically on that day I was paid to run around and eat! It was great! I even got to make some friends, one of them I've actually have had  the pleasure of meeting them recently. They also paired me up with a guy and a woman who were supposed to be my dad. They were really funny and nice and helped passed the time between takes. After filming my mom and I walked with our friends and grabbed a quick bite to eat. Then we all drove home. Overall that was a really fun and delicious experience and I hope there are more like that in the near future.

My Awesome Experience on Criminal Minds!

Being on the tv show "Criminal Minds" was really cool and exciting. We had to drive to this remote ranch somewhere in the desert-like hills of California. It was being filmed at some movie ranch that war movies and movies like "Iron-Man" were usually filmed at. I was pretty familiar with the place because I had been on other jobs there. Such as "Man-Down" and "1915" which were along the lines of army movies. The scene was basically where me and a bunch of other people were living in the slums of India. The set looked really cool and it felt like I was actually in the slums of India (which isn't exactly a great place to live). When we arrived at the set they dressed up my sister and I in these dirty rags and put fake dirt all over us. It looked really cool but that fake dirt stuff was so hard to wash off. It stayed on me for like a two weeks. As soon as we were placed in our positions, the PAs, producers, and directors were drilling us on how when the drone that was carrying the camera took off we were supposed to look away and not go under or near the area where it was. When they told us this and how they were using the drone to film the scene, I was amazed. The drone was pretty big and was carrying this big bulky camera into the sky. It was able to fly so high and it got up there pretty fast. Anyway, the scene I was in was basically where this man that was bleeding like crazy woke up in the slums of India injured really bad. He then walks toward a group of people (which I am in) and asks for help. But the group of people just stare at him then he collapses and dies right in front of us. It was an intense scene and the actor playing the injured person did an amazing job. The blood on him looked really realistic too. The next scene I did was where I was playing cricket with two kids in an alleyway. But then some bomb or something is about to go off so then my "parents" rushed us out before we got hurt. It was pretty fun playing Cricket and the director or producer showed us how to play so that made the experience even cooler. But when we left the set and came back we noticed that it was really cloudy outside but it didn't seem to be raining. Then only seconds later we saw lightning! They directors and producers had to break set and reschedule it for the next day. We kept seeing it coming closer so everyone gathered under the same shed roof out side and watched the lightning come closer and closer. It was really cool seeing lightning so up close and seeing it so many time. It made the situation even funnier when my sister was freaking out for nothing. But one of the producers had rented an ices-custard-type-thing that was really good and delicious. So while everyone was freaking out my mom and I were just eating while staring at them lighting. Overall it was really cool being on this set and I hope I get to do something like this again.

My Awesome Experience on a Dole Commercial!

The day that I went on a Dole commercial was pretty fun and cool. It was a late call time and it wasn't super long. They said I might have to skateboard so they asked if I knew how to skate. My mom said yes but I was pretty bad. Before the job I couldn't even get on the board. So my mom made me practice in the parking lot of my friend's church. I had my friend with me which was pretty fun and he didn't know how to skate either so we were pretty much on the same page. By the end of the day I could get on the board but I still wasn't that great. So when the time cam for my mom and I to head to the studio where they were filming I was pretty nervous. But when we got there we waited for a while  and they finally put us on set, except I didn't skateboard. They just had me stand in the background with this other kid while a different kid got to ride a skateboard. It was boring but by looking at the person they chose, it was probably better this way. But the kid who got chosen to skateboard was actually really nice. He actually took the time to teach me and few other kids to skateboard. He was a really good friend and instructor and by the end of the day I felt like a pro. I could do this one trick that looked complicated but was actually pretty easy. Even though I didn't get to work that much I still got to hang out with a bunch of cool kids who taught me to skateboard. Now I can skateboard pretty well and I got myself a new skateboard. So I owe it all to that nice kid whose name I forget (which I feel awful about). This is definitely one day I will never forget.

My Awesome Experience on Grey's Anatomy!

On February 1, 2013 I had the pleasure to work on the tv show "Grey's Anatomy". It was a very exciting day but as usual, it was a very long day. At 12:30 pm my mom and I arrived at the studios. It was really cool after we checked in because we got to ride around the studios in a golf cart to get to the studio that the show "Grey's Anatomy" was being filmed at. It was a long time before I actually got to work. So I just waited the whole time eating loads of snacks, reading, and doing homework. It wasn't until 6:00 pm when they called me and said that they needed me on set. It was actually pretty cool being on set. They had me hooked up to this tube that connected to a bag of water on a pole that was on wheels. They told me that I was supposed to be a sick patient at the hospital. So while the camera was filming I stood there next to my "mom" and the "doctor" in the background. My on set mom was supposed to be going over some important medical procedures with the doctor on some sort of iPad. It was pretty cool being on the set. The whole place looked exactly like a hospital. There were fake patients and doctors everywhere and cool equipment in some places. It was a really elaborate set. After that scene we were wrapped and ready to go home. It was really cool being on that set and I hope I get another opportunity to do something like that again!