Now that we are on to Shoot day 6, we seem to be in a rhythm. The Production team back in Australia have been lining up the contestants very efficiently and today, we are actually interviewing 9 people!!? Normally I have to say this is too much but given that we have little time left in LA, we really don’t have any choice. As a result, the Crew have been working pretty hard and when we had any downtime, it was spent in the back of a car traveling for miles. Yesterday, we drove all the way out to Palm Springs to Interview a former James Bond Girl, Trina Parks. Racing across the desert in pouring rain, we glimpsed snow capped peaks as we headed for another interview at the Joshua Tree. There we interviewed a real “Machete Maiden”, Leigh Christian, who shared some pretty interesting stories. As a result there aren’t too many photos of anything! We simply haven’t had any time!
The previous day, we had driven to an interview with R. Lee Ermey, an hour out of LA. That interview was legendary in our minds, especially when Jock, our sound recordist, looked out the window of the van and noticed the Drill Sergeant from Full Metal Jacket storming towards us! He was extremely gracious and awarded us all a personal commemorative medal with his name on it and autographed photographs for us.
We landed back at the hotel quite late that night! All in all, LA has been tight for time. Mark has had to work on his research after hours also so I think everyone is showing signs of sleep deprivation. Tomorrow is our last day in LA. It’s reasonably full with more interviews before we fly out late evening to New York. Until then, Adios
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