This post first appeared in my eNewsletter I WAS BIGFOOT'S SHEMP.
It seems quaint now, but a week ago I was really debating about canceling the first weekend of shooting for my new movie HIS WIFE MY KILLER. I was having a number of cast and crew people from Fort Wayne, Indianapolis, and Dayton reaching out, including someone whose family member was currently being tested for Coronavirus at an area hospital. I went ahead and pushed the button on canceling and felt pretty low about it. But so much closing in rapid succession afterwards really overshadowed that, obviously. I really thought we could get the first weekend in, but that things would change so rapidly we wouldn't be able to get in the second, and I was right.
I don't talk much about my day job in my newsletter, only my side hustle, but I work at a regional university in communications and marketing, with about five percent of my job in emergency management. Suffice to say that changed to 95 percent emergency management overnight and I am finishing my first week of working from home for the near future and being on Zoom and Skype calls five or six hours a day. There's a lot to talk about and think about but I don't know if I have anything to add that hasn't been said, but would just say be safe and be careful, all.
When you make a b-movie you go to war with a group of people and can really bond with them, and I have seen very little like it, except when I have been in a play, or worked in live television. But maybe working with my day job team on this has been close, though not by choice. I hope you can rally your own squad, personal or professional, whoever they are.
On the other side we will reschedule the shoot, and you'll be the first to know. Best wishes you to all.
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