A Kind of Commendation

On the first of several days of shooting scenes with a couple of meth-heads, C spent more than 2 hours making a guy look, well, like a meth-head. He completely airbrushed his body, making it sallow and spotted. He applied several prosthetic lesions all over the place, including one on the head. Not being a druggie myself, I didn’t get the lesions. C tells me that while high, meth addicts can think something is crawling on them, or under their skin, and pick and scratch at it. Then, they don’t take care of them selves (no shower every am, with lotion, etc.) and they barely eat. When they do eat, they crave sugar. So, you can imagine the lesions don’t heal nicely or quickly. (Blech!) C colored the guys teeth – see the eating sugar comment above. Then the Hair dept. makes the guys hair stringy and nasty. Finally, the actor is declared done, and he steps out of the trailer.

Into the path of the security team.

Who promptly try to kick him off set.
(he looked GOOOOOOD!)

After getting convincing the team that he was really an actor, and not a meth-head, the guy heads to set – usually located a short, 2 block walk away.

Where they try to kick him off set AGAIN.
(he looked REALLY GOOOOOD!)

Days like this, C is pretty sure he likes his job!