RitM: Day Fifteen – River Birthday

5Aug/050

RitM: Day Fifteen – River Birthday

Either Steve Pierre (Eric Smallhouse), Joel Metlen (Co-Director) or Christine Sullivan (Co-Director) celebrated a birthday today. Guess who.

One of the pictured principles of Rain in the Mountains celebrated a birthday today. Can you guess who? Answer after the jump.

Read more (a.k.a. the jump)...Despite AD Lillian Parker being out with bad case of the upchucks, and despite filming with some fairly complicated boat set-ups, and despite filming IN THE WATER(!), we still wrapped before lunchtime. One big help: actors knowing their lines.

Gregory Sutterlict (playing David, Eric's Ned Flanders) had a great first day. He nailed the part every take. Steve was also great. We did one of his biggest stunts in the film: slipping and falling into the river. Where we happened to be filming it almost happened to everyone for real, because the rocks were pretty unstable. Steve did five takes of it, by my count, each one bigger than the last. I can't wait to see the footage.
Joel Metlen in the Nisqually River
Dan Brunell and Christine Sullivan
Jameson and Joel
Joel directs Steve to sink the canoe
Dan feels the cold water reach his more sensitive areas
Patrick Bachmeier chills in the big boat
Self portrait by Jameson Peters
from left: Matt, Danny, Patrick, Gregory and Steve
Birthday boy Joel Metlen and actor Nick Erb
Steve Pierre and Gregory Sutterlict
Oh, and the birthday celebratee: Joel Metlen: . He turns a quarter-century today.