July 21st, 2003 These set reports were posted at the IMDb mb: So today as i was coming out of my midterm at UCLA, this trailer opens up. out comes this tall brunette and i immediately recognize her. she is taller than i expected her to be. i didn't want to bother her, she didn't seem welcoming. she was wearing gray track pants with a baby tee, seems like she just woke up or something. and couple of minutes later, i was walking to my class across campus and i was stopped by a staff person becuz they didn't want people entering the scene. they were filming a police motorcade because the president was coming. so yeah. they keep coming back to film stuff. they've been coming back consistently for the past 4 weeks. but being less than a person away from katie holmes was something, i was truly star-struck. (posted 7/21/03 - 2:10pm) ----------------------- Posted by Ytadel: Yesterday I was in Los Angeles to do campus tours at USC and UCLA. After the campus tour at UCLA was over, at like 4:00 or so, I heard they were shooting a movie scene in front of one of the buildings. I scurried over, and lo and behold, there was Forest Whitaker giving directions to some actors. I'd never heard of First Daughter before, but I found out about it pretty quick from some people around. I talked to everyone I could: an assisstant director, a sound guy, the clapboard operator, a couple key grips, and I found out that Katie Holmes was going to be there shortly. So, of course, being both a red-blooded male and an aspiring filmmaker, I stood and waited for a while, watching them do some rehersals. It was a scene where Katie was driving up to a staircase at the college, and walking up it with secret service guys. Eventually, she showed up, just as hot as on TV, and they did 6 takes of the scene before Whitaker decided it was good. Then Katie Holmes walked over to talk to the cameraguy or something, and she was like 5 FEET from me. It was incredible. And I was all like "Katie? You were really great in Phone Booth and Wonder Boys, I'm a big fan!" (yeah, trite and stupid, but I was flustered) She said "Oh, thank you." RIGHT TO MY FACE before hurrying off to review the script. WOW. Amazing. Then, they were filming the next scene, and they needed their extras to come up and pretend to be fans of the president's daughter, so of course I did what anyone would do, pretended to be an extra. There was like 30 of us up there and like 10 got American flags to wave at Katie, including me. They did about 5 takes, and when the movie comes out in theatres, I'm going to be right up there on screen, standing behind Katie Holmes waving a flag. Awesome. Best possible day to visit the campus. And then, after they got that shot, they were packing up and I went up and talked to Forest Whitaker about Phone Booth for like 15 seconds. I'm so buzzed about all this.