Resting a bit
I’m currently resting a little. On Friday, we did exteriors, driving around in a ’74 Chevy Caprice Classic, which was quite the appropriate pimp car. Also, Leo’s shirt has a Betty Page pinup on it. After that, we did a couple of takes of us carrying a guy outside and trying to kill him, but failing, since we’re basically idiots, and start arguing about who gets to kill him, and he runs off. We also did a quick take on the roof of a tall building by Avenida Revolución. It was simple, but not so much for me, since I’m deathly afraid of heights.
Saturday was my day off, I spent most of it sleeping, and the rest with my girlfriend.
On Sunday, we went to a junkyard near Ciudad Nezahualcoyotl, a rather bad part of town, and did most of the third act of the movie. I got to fight a bit with Tomas Goros, which was great fun. I worked with him on Comando Zorras too, and he’s a total professional, and a great guy. He does over-the-top bad guys wonderfully, complete with evil laugh. The junkyard was like some kind of horror movie set, including an old guy with no teeth who lived in a little hut in the back, and fed the “guard dog” slivers of unidentifiable, foul-smelling meat. The place was full of cute cats, though, although they were a bit too shy to dare get too close.
And today, we went to Metro Garibaldi to do an exterior shot, which was fairly easy, although it was hot as hell to stand around in a black leather trenchcoat in the sun. I couldn’t take it off, since I was carrying a prop gun in a holster, and there was a bunch of people and traffic. Tomorrow, I’m doing a single exterior scene in the morning, and then it’s all day interiors on Wednesday, some stuff on Thursday, and then I’m supposed to be done.
Photos in this post are courtesy of Leo, and are under a Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike license. You can see more photos from the production over on his Flickr account.