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.