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Babe 2 - Zach In The City

DAY 1

Moving to New York City can be seen as a pivotal point in a man’s life. A defining moment, some would say. With no job ahead and a little money in hand, I stumbled out of LaGuardia International Airport, expecting only to grab life by the horns.

What I didn’t expecting to find was a bum fight.

For the sake of conversation we’ll call them Jeffro and Sammy. Apparently Jeffro wasn’t watching Sammy’s stuff while Sammy went take a leak. Sammy’s stuff consisted of a garbage bag filled to the brim with cups and sweaters, and a small cardboard box with duct tape holding the sides together. It’s contents are unknown, but obviously worth protecting.

“Where were you!” Sammy yelled this repeatedly. Jeffro replied simply that he was watching the whole time. Which, let’s be honest, he totally wasn’t.

And this, my dear friends, was my first lesson in learning not to stare. Post-fight I managed to get to get settled in at my temporary place. I rested, for on the next day I would focus on job hunting.

DAY 2

I sifted through the internets looking for any work that didn’t require cat boots. And with a bit of luck, I managed to find a stint as a production assistant… starting that afternoon.

According to the producer, who goes by the name Danny, it was a small afternoon shoot and he just needed some basic help. He wanted me to meet him in two hours to get started.

An hour passed and he called me back with more details. He was heading in town a bit early to do some casting prior to the shoot. Casting prior to the shoot? Odd, sure. But I’m sure there’s a great deal I don’t know about big city filmmaking.

“I’m glad you called. I was just getting applications from girls, so I’m really glad you called,” says Danny, stroking my ego by acknowledging that I, in fact, am not a girl. I had assumed he wanted a male for the heavy lifting, or this producer was just a blatant sexist. Either way, it worked to my benefit.

He calls back.

“Hey man, okay, yeah you should head down now. I’m doing some casting. When you get here, if anyone asks… just tell them we’ve worked together before. Is that cool?”

This is when my concern started to grow. But, just as I was beginning to speak he followed up with another interesting side note.

“And just a heads up, it is a reality-type thing and it might get a little erotic. You’re cool with that, right?”

“Err, yeah, yeah,” I responded. Of course meant to say oh dear god, guuuuulp.

I just couldn’t put my finger on it. While I would love to lie to young women and take advantage of them for personal gain, there was something about Danny’s gig that just didn’t seem, I know, legitimate.

Ultimately it didn’t work out, and with an excuse in a message, I got out of it.

Things did work out for Danny, though. I hear he even signed several girls to three-film, two-figure deals.
Honestly, I’m truly proud to say I’ve worked with Danny for years.

Filed by Zach at July 8th, 2007 under Articles.