Movie Stars!

So sometimes when your wandering the dark streets of Hoi An and a guy rides up to you on his motorbike asking if you want to be in a movie the next day, its probably not a good idea to say, 'yeah I'd love to.' But that was our particular approach, and more or less, it turned out pretty ok. The pic above is not actually Mike and two Swedish travelers travelling. Thats acting gang! Karen and Matthias got pulled into the flick by the same promise of $450,000* for 5 hours of movie work that Mike and I signed up for. The allure of a Korean ghost film directed by the Korean Spielberg was too much to resist. The deal ended up being sweetened by the fact that I was singled out to share the screen, in a crucial shot filling the space between two huge stars, the Vietnamese Tom Hanks (pictured in tie and glasses between the Swedes) and the Korean Julia Roberts. Spelberg was evidently sufficiently pleased with my ability to look like a traveler standing at the front of a line waiting for a customs official. I got a big smile and hearty slap on the shoulder after the scene's final take. Things got a little sillier from there as we were required to stay on set, a fourty minute drive from town, nearly 5 hours longer then we had agreed to. Of course extra money was then promised and never received. But hey 450 large and the possibility of stardom come the summer release of 'Moui': how can I complain?

*and yeah it ended up working out to like 3 bucks an hour, out of which I had to pay for breakfast, lunch and snack, if you want to get all technical about it, so just don't ok.