A Movie Star
“Imagine the inside of a head cleared out and filled with hot lava. You need to survive in this.”
That’s what the director told me. I think I was playing Zac Efron, but if not, he was at least in the movie. I think I was him, though. Uck…
Nobody understood the director and he never answered our questions about the movie. We never knew why we were in a head and why exactly it was filled with lava. Obviously the lava wasn’t real: I fell in it once and somehow the used food coloring to make it look like lava in a hot tub. I don’t know why the just didn’t color the water green.
So here I am swinging on neuron vines to get from nasal cavity to nasal cavity and all of a sudden my buddy falls down and dies. This wasn’t a part of the movie. James was supposed to die, but not Carol.
We had to shut down the movie because of stupid Carol dying. She was the feminine hero and we couldn’t have her dying. Because of her death we shut the project down. We were almost done. At this time it was what would be known as the Dr. Parnassus Syndrom. What do you do when Heath Ledger dies (God bless his soul) in the middle of a movie? Either power through it or cut it off. We cut it off.
When I walked out of the set I got news that Jon Schlosser somehow got a girlfriend and I threw the phone at my trailer laughing in disbelief.
