{"id":950,"date":"2009-08-04T23:01:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-05T06:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2009\/08\/04\/my-episode-of-leverage-airs-tonight\/"},"modified":"2009-08-04T23:01:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-05T06:01:00","slug":"my-episode-of-leverage-airs-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2009\/08\/04\/my-episode-of-leverage-airs-tonight\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;My&#8221; episode of Leverage airs tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I use the possessive article very loosely here, since I was just an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snout.org\/hotsheet\/2009\/05\/twitterage.html\">extra<\/a> (&#8220;background performer&#8221;), and out of three days of shooting you might actually see my face for five seconds, at most.<\/p>\n<p>Still, it was fun to be on set with the cast and crew (ObNameDrop: director <a href=\"http:\/\/www.televisionwithoutpity.com\/telefile\/2009\/02\/number-one-guy-jonathan-frakes.php\">Jonathan Frakes<\/a>, writer <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/bergopolis\">Amy Berg<\/a>, casting director <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/lanaveenker\">Lana Veenker<\/a>).  Unless you&#8217;ve worked on a show, it&#8217;s difficult to imagine how many people and how much equipment go into shooting any scene&#8211;even something that <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">seems<\/span> straightforward, like random people walking past the window of a cafe.<\/p>\n<p>It takes a lot of effort to make things look natural when they aren&#8217;t.  Which you could say is one of the themes of the series itself.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/snout.org\/hotsheet\/uploaded_images\/leverage_xlg-798243.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/snout.org\/hotsheet\/uploaded_images\/leverage_xlg-798234.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Leverage<\/span> episode 204, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tv.com\/leverage\/the-fairy-godparents-job\/episode\/1279487\/summary.html\">&#8220;The Fairy Godparents Job,&#8221;<\/a> airs at 9:00 PM and 11:00 PM Eastern Time tonight on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tnt.tv\/series\/leverage\/upcomingairings\/\">TNT<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(Wait a day or two, and you can also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B002GPSVXA\/curtiscchensfree\">watch it online at Amazon<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewTVSeason?id=322839931&amp;showLC=true\">download it from iTunes<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>~CKL<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I use the possessive article very loosely here, since I was just an extra (&#8220;background performer&#8221;), and out of three days of shooting you might actually see my face for five seconds, at most. Still, it was fun to be&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}