Matthew Fox/Tenacious D
Matthew Fox/Tenacious D
Let's see...there was:
Bill saying to me on a Friday night as they were writing a monologue: "I think I might have to do Kramer, but I don't know how he sounds." and then later watching him do it perfectly.
Seth came up with that "Lost" elevator sketch. The way it works in the studio to make it look like an elevator is there's a lighting guy who puts a huge square card over a light to create a closing door effect. We were concentrating on blocking and our lines so we kept getting it wrong, coming in too early or late. Much of our rehearsal for this was a producer coming out to the studio floor and saying "Guys. Wait until you see the door opening effect before you get on. Please okay?" Over and over. "Oh right. Sorry!"
Sometimes we are dummies.
Getting to be part of the second song for Tenacious D. They asked us to come out as different music genres. It was just the greatest, and it's something we don't ever get to do. Jack and Kyle and their band came in on Thursday to rehearse with us but we spent most of that time talking and goofing around. They are both so funny. For the song, heavy metal (embodied by a giant monster robot) destroys all of the other genres. I think it was punk, new wave, techno and grunge.
Even though it was supremely fun, there was still a part of me that held on to my adolescent punk beliefs. I felt a little bit protective and territorial and wanted to say "Wait a minute. Heavy metal does NOT destroy punk! Bad Brains vs. Megadeth? Come on!" So high school.
We can all agree that metal does destroy techno though, right?
Matthew Fox was really sweet and cool and told us about how they shoot "Lost" in Hawaii. Sometimes when an episode is about one character, the other actors have weeks off, just hanging out on the beach or wherever. What a nightmare.
