Overheard Conversations

Here are some more conversations that I have overheard and thought were funny.

Conversation #1

Two guys who knew each other are talking together on the set of "American Pie IV". Yes, they are making another one. But it is straight to video.

Guy #1: "Hey do you know Gabriel who worked with us on E.R. last week?"

Guy #2: "Gabriel, Gabriel, oh yeah, he's the guy with red hair"

Guy #1: "No, he has kind of dark blonde hair."

Guy #2: "Oh yeah. He's a big guy."

Guy #1: "No, not really big.

Guy #2: "But he's pretty tall."

Guy #1: "No, he's about our size."

Guy #2: "Yeah, I know him."

I am not sure if he just wanted to end the conversation or for some other reason, but it was clear he did not know Gabriel.

Conversation #2

A couple of guys who just met are talking together on the set of "Flight Plan". One of the guys wants a cigarette, but doesn't have one. He asks his new friend if he smoked, his new friend did not. So he asks a guy standing near him smoking if he could bum a cigarette off of him. This is what follows.

Guy #1 "Thanks man, thanks. Here I have to give you something because you gave this
to me."

Guy #2 "No, no, that's not necessary."

Guy #1 "Yes, yes it is. I always give something to people who give me something.
Here have a piece of candy, I always have candy in my pocket."

Guy #2 "That's okay, you keep it."

Guy #1 "No, no, I have lots of them. My wife puts a bunch in my pockets every
morning.

Guy #2 "My wife died."

Guy #1 "Oh, sorry to hear that".

Awkward pause

Guy #1 "Here, take another piece of candy."

I guess it was worth telling a complete stranger about a devastating event, to get another piece of strawberry candy.

Conversation #3

I was working on "Gilmore Girls" and there was this very manly looking woman who was annoying everyone there. She looked exactly like "Pat" from the old "Saturday Night Live" sketch.

Manly Woman: "Is Rhode Island in Conneticut?"

Person: "No, Rhode Island is in Rhode Island."

Manly Woman: "It's a whole other state?"

The manly woman got hers later one. She was standing in line to get some food and the person in charge of the food wanted her to let some crew members in front of her. She approached from the back and said....

"Excuse me sir, could you let the crew in first"

The manly woman was not happy to be called a man. But I think gay marriage is legal in Rhode Island. She should look into it, if she can find it.

The PS effect

I may have mentioned this before, but there are three things that people are VERY concerned with here in Los Angeles.

1. Height
2. Age
3. Which celebrity you look like

I have overheard many in-depth conversations about celebrities and how people are mad or flattered, happy or sad depending on what celebrity people think they look like. In Chicago I was rarely compared to any celebrities. People just did not care. In L.A. people think I am a dead ringer as a younger version of a certain celebrity. At least twice a week, people say that I look like him.

Patrick Swayze

I don’t see it. My friends and family don’t see it. But apparently everyone else does. If I am having a conversation with a stranger on set, it always comes up. One girl on Dr. Vegas refers to me as “Swayze” even though I have told her my name repeatedly.

The best story happened when I was working on “Dr. Vegas” a couple of months ago. I was just sitting alone, reading at a table, and there were a couple of older women sitting at the same table as I. After a couple of hours, the older woman sitting right next to me kind of leaned into me and quietly began to speak to me. She had an accent that I would guess to be Italian.

Woman: “Excuse me, you look like the man from the dancing movie.”

I knew instantly what she was talking about.

Bryan: “Patrick Swayze”?

Woman: “Yes, yes, you look just like him. Are you his son or nephew?”

Bryan: “No, I’m not related to him.”

Woman: "Oh my goodness, oh my goodness. You look just like him. From the
Dancing movie.”

Bryan: “Dirty Dancing.”

Woman: “Yes, yes, the Dirty Dancing. I was sitting here thinking you must
be his son, you look so much like him. I wanted to ask you sooner
but I was scared to talk to you.”

Then she turns to the other ladies at the table.

Woman: “Everyone, doesn’t he look like the Patrick Swayze?”

Everyone: “YEAH”

Woman: “You are going to be a mega-star, the Patrick Swayze is getting to
old to be sexy, you can take his parts. You are my mega-star.”

She continued to call me “My Mega-Star” for the rest of the day. She also told me that I was going to get many parts and be famous because I looked like the Patrick Swayze. When my age came up, she couldn’t believe that I was thirty. Then she started talking about her 24 year old daughter and how she thinks she needs to date older men. I was just waiting for her to “suggest” that I give her daughter a call. I had a choice, I could sit there and endure it, or I could be very rude and move to a different chair. I chose to endure it.

The whole rest of the day, I was called mega-star, sexy, and the Patrick Swayze. At the end of the day, she made me honestly promise her that I would not forget her when I was a famous mega-star. Which she predicted would be in November. I just saw her today and she called me mega-star once again. I wanted to remind her that it was November and I still wasn’t a mega-star. But, I didn’t and I also didn’t feel guilty about having forgotten her name.