I filmed with Curtis '50 Cent' Jackson and Academy Award Winner Forest Whitaker today on the new Crime/Thriller, Freelancers. Both actors were very nice and mingled with the extras and the fans in the area that we filmed at. Also, 50 Cent took pics with kids and gave them each 1 $10 bill afterwards. Talk about cool and very generous! At one point, a lady handed him an infant and then ran off and he replied, "Whose baby is this?" Kissed the baby on the cheek and then handed the infant to another relative! Lol! Everyone loved Forest and was telling him that they see all of his movie and him on CBS' Criminal Minds! The scenes that we filmed today was action ones. One scene had all the extras in an area and just pretending look busy like walking down the street, talking on the corner, talking on a cell phone, etc. while 50 and Forest tried to stop two girls from breaking and entering into an abandoned building. The other scene we shot was the best because it was a girl being ran over by a bus. The main Latin actress started it odd by running from the playground nearby and running into the street away from 50 Cent and she gets hit by the bus and Forest comes up in the cop car and tells him to leave her there and hop in and those were the only scenes that we filmed today. We filmed from 6am-6pm. It was fun and very exciting. The other two Latin girls were stunt doubles/stand-ins and there even had a Latin dummy doll...how they will piece it all together should be interesting, but it was great to see something like that happen because I have always found the stunts in movies very exciting! And that was my day on Freelancers!
The Set...set in Queens, NY--but Louisiana for real...
Where The Stars Sit!
The Set
Me and Forest Whitaker!
Filming About to Happen!
The Set Again.....
50 Cent and Travis!! Me!!