the fun part

so last night a few of us headed out to northeast portland to hang out with dylan rosemus, the seven-year-old who's playing keira's son in the movie. it went extremely well - the kid is just about perfect. he's got a great attitude, gets over his shyness really quickly and even looks like he could be related to lisa (keira). and he's hillarious. given our good luck with dylan, we'd been brainstorming ways of making his character a little more visible. the current idea is that he should be obsessed with pirates. so we went out and bought him an eye patch and plastic sword to carry around for the bulk of the film. i gave them to him yesterday and he immediately went into character - running around the park growling at people and trying to chop off his dad's leg with the sword. good times.

afterward, we got some food and beer and rehearsed this weekends scenes with joe (colin) and lisa. so far, the rehearsals have been the fun part. there are no technical glitches to work around, no locations waiting for you to leave so they can open, and no crew or extras to keep busy and involved. just the actors and the script. and the cast has really taken an active interest in the development of each beat. just last night we worked two or three new character driven jokes into a scene without having to actually rewrite anything. it seems at this point that we've been extremely lucky with our cast.