Hangin with Mr. Neo

To sum up my night in four words: Wow. That was AWESOME. If you hadn't already heard the news, I spent all of tonight (er well last night) on the set of the new movie Il Mare, starring Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock. The movie is a romance drama about two people living in the same apartment two years apart from each other and being able to communicate (and fall in love) through their mailbox. The goto the same locations and do the same stuff, but in different time periods. The set I was on was the fourth of July at Navy Pier. What they did for the most part was had three groups: The Sandra group (which would shoot close to her when it was 2 years future), the Keanu group (which would shoot close to her when it was 2 years past) and the cattle, which would pretty much be the filler people in the back both times. I unfortunately (at first) was grouped into the cattle. It's all good though, because when the both of them entered Navy pier they started on a huge long shot tracking them down a flight of stairs which I was on. I was bumped by them several times lol. Obviously, when you have over 500 extras on set it's very difficult to keep track of all of them, so I eventually made my way into both the S group and the K group. For literally minutes at a time I'd be just kinda ackwardly standing next to either Keanu, Sandra, or the both of them. It was great.

I definitely wasn't star struck but any of it, but seeing the two of them did put a smile on my face though. It was really cool being able to see someone in person who is plastered all over the media all the time. Especially when they talk to you, and you see how normal they really are.