Monday, July 18, 2011

this is gonna piss you off

i was hanging out with donoho and our friend nate last night. nate is the other friend of mine who works in film. donoho is incredibly talented and successful, but nate is even more so.

so nate moves to atlanta to get work, and on his first day in the city, he walks onto a set of some NBC series. he politely asked for the KPA for a couple hours, the dude finally comes out like, alright man, what do you want. Nate asks for a job. The dude says no, but you can hang out and watch if you want. nate says yes, and immediately walks over and starts organizing all of the food. then he walks over to the actual set and starts organizing all of the cables on the floor, because he can't touch the lights or stands of course. the next day he gets to set an hour before anyone else, organizing breakfast for everyone, and cleans the entire set.

after 2 days of this, the KPA starts to pay him, but nate has to keep it secret because there are 10 PA interns who aren't being paid.

now, after living in atlanta for 3 months, he has been a PA on a multiple NBC and CBS shoots, and right now he is currently working as an electric on some big feature, i didn't catch what it was or what company. he is 22, and the youngest electric on set by 6 years. everyone on set hates his guts, except for the Director, DP, Gaffer, and 1st AD, who all predict that Nate will easily be working as a professional Gaffer by the time he is 28.

and he is dating the costume designer, a beautiful 33 year old woman. they have tons of sex.

4 comments:

  1. what's even more incredible than this story is how pissed off i am.

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  2. i think this just made me hit a new low.

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  3. he found the set when he was biking around atlanta and saw a grip truck. he followed it.

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