June 26th, 2003 Thanks to Angela and Alan for their submissions: Angela: I just got home, spent the whole day there and didn't see Katie once. All her shots were done inside and when she wasn't filming she went directly back to her trailer, and she apparantly doesn't come out till she has too :lol". I did meet some extras and chatted with one of the cast security people (who provided me with lots of star gossip, hehe). And I actually almost got to be an extra, but they didnt need anyone else for tonite. They will be filming until 5 or 6am, but im not sure if Katie will be filming tonite, since she filmed until 5-6am yesterday and they may have gotten all her shots. They will be filming tomorrow for sure, in fact, from 11:30am-2:30pm tomorrow they are having an open call for extras, just go there and bring a recent pic of yourself. This is what i found out from talking to PA and security, they are doing a bonfire or pep rally or some kind of big scene tomorrow nite and need a lot of college students, so if u wanna try to be an extra, def go tomorrow. You'll prob have to film till wee morning, and there's no guarantee that you'll be with Katie in any scenes, but it's your chance to maybe be in the movie. I was told they are leaving on friday, they start filming elsewhere on monday. They were fimling around Kirchoff hall (which they renamed Woody Hall). Where you by all the tents Nike? That's where they had the mudslide filming last nite, yep, Katie sliding in mud or something, lol. I'm not quite sure what time they'll start filming tomorrow, but the open cast call is from 11:30am-2:30pm. -------------------- Alan: I was there for the shooting at Kerckhoff and Angela was right, Katie had all of her scenes indoors there. I didn't see her at all during this time. I saw a lot of the second unit stuff they were shooting outside Kerckoff though. Background stuff. The scenes indoors shot until 8:00pm and then it was time for lunch. I was sitting on the second floor balcony when a stream of cast and crew came cascading down this curving stairwell and one of them stood out immediately because of the full length brown coat she was wearing on what was a warm summer afternoon (although it did get real cool as soon as the sun went down). It was Katie. They swiftly descended and walked past the golf cart thingys that ferry them around on set and chose to walk back to the trailers. Although I had only seen her for a few seconds, it left an impression. I hung around and talked to some people, one of them being someone who casts extras and I got the goods. I found out that the main part of the nights filming would include Katie's big action scene of the movie and I decided to stay. They had filmed some of it the night before but were doing it again for some reason. It was a long time to hang around the campus, but I'm glad I did. I timed their lunch break perfectly and arrived back on the set just as they did. There was an awful lot of time wasted standing around waiting for something to happen, but I guess this is just par for the course for both film and television. I didn't mind it though because Katie was there the entire time. She walked right past me several times. She had her game face on, Katie is very focused on set, she hardly ever even looks around, and, it is understood that while the actors are working they are not to be approached, so I didn't even think it. That was fine with me. I did learn some stuff about the girl who plays Katie's roommate. I think her name is or sounds like Ann Marie Rodgers. She is tiny and supercute and bubbly, she seemed real nice. Now here is the weird part. I looked on IMDB for that name and the one person with that name isn't the girl I saw. I think she spells the Ann Marie way differently or something. When we find out what her name actually is, it will be interesting to see how far I am off. Ok, now about taking pictures. It was kind of confusing, at Kerckoff I had my camera out and no one said anything. There was all kinds of crew members about, even security was there and no one said anything. I didn't bother to take any pics of the second unit though, it was mostly all just extras walking around for background shots. Then all of a sudden Mark Blucas stick his head out of one of the upper floor windows making faces to the girls I was talking to. He later came out front and I got a picture. I hope it came out. We'll see in a few days. At the other set where I was so close to Katie...even having the camera out was absolutely forbidden. I found out the hard way too... ...way before Katie showed up, they tested the bonfire (it's gas) and I took my camera out and took a picture. I got a nice lecture from the security dude there. He made it very clear that I would be tossed out of there if I did it again. So, I didn't. Twenty minutes later, standing in a legal, safe spot staring up at the set where Katie has a waterslide scene, a golf cart pulls up next to me and it is none other than Katie, this time in ponytail and floor length blue jacket. That was supercool and so was seeing Katie go down the waterslide. It made the unbelieveably long wait worth the while. She didn't actually go down the slide until 1:00am. **spoiler warning** * * * * * * * The scene calls for Katie's character Samatha to fly down quickly on the slide and crash into the bales of hay they had stacked at the bottom. She is to hit the bales of hay so hard she knocks Marc Blucas' character over and into the water that has gathered at the end of the slide. The security guy said she did fine the first third of the slide but came to a stop only halfway down. They did have a stunt double for Katie and watching her go down the slide 7 or 8 times is what we watched for most of the evening. A couple of guys went down too and they kind of hotdogged their slides, half standing then rolling very fast down the hill and just having fun with it. Katie would watch the stunt double live then they would watch the slide on the monitor and decide how to get what they wanted. I think Katie was a bit nervous about this whole slide idea and that is why she was kinda tense that night. When it came time for her to actually slide, I could see why. We all watched the stunt double rehearse over and over then film over and over and between each slide the stunt crew would prep the slide again and again and every time they were ready to actually film they had to get all the extras back in place and get all of their sweaters and jackets out of the way. All this seemed to go on endlessly. Finally, it was time for the Mia and Samatha character to go down the slide. Both characters had their problems going down. On her first run the Mia character did exactly what the crew guy said Katie did last night, she got about half way down and came to a stop at a weird angle. She started a swimming motion to help propel her downwards a little further but it wasn't a good run. They had her get up and go again right away. Her second run went pretty smooth. She dived head first with good form and slid nicely all the way down to the bottom. Next up was Katie. They put the mark up and screamed out action and Katie made her run at the slide. It didn't go as planned. She was to dive head first and just slide all the way down just as Mia had just done. She lost her balance somehow and when she hit the slide she tumbled over like three times. It was like she was rolling down the hill on her side except that she kind of bounced a couple of times too. She finally flattened out and slid down to the bottom where she covered for her flub nicely. She came up, raised both hands and gave a smile to show everyone that she was alright. She was fine but it was just a little embarrassing. They didn't make Katie do another though. They got the stunt double up there and filmed two more takes right after and then they were done and got ready to go on to the next thing. It was a relief to see Katie walking around alright after that, she had a blanket around her though because she was still soaking wet. It would have been nice to see her in a more relaxed mode. Maybe next time.