We have managed to stumble across so many actress's/actors/film people in such a short space of time. It's true that everything is larger than life in the US of A!
On the plane from Sydney to NYC we were seated next to
Belinda Giblin who was in
Sons and Daughters back in the day. She is still an actress but is also a management consultant and had done some work with the Qantas crew so they moved her up to Business Class when the plane took off.
The big Sissa and I were cheering as it meant we had a spare seat next to us on a pretty packed plane. But Nooooo..... two seconds later a big burly guy was moved from the back of the plane to sit next to the Big Sissa. Not only was he a professional shooter going to the US for a shooting competition (I think clay target shooting???) but his real job is as an action producer on George Miller films (think
Happy Feet and the upcoming
Mad Max remake with Charlise Theron). Very showbiz!
On our second night in town we went to an off Broadway play starring
Christopher Walken and
Sam Rockwell. While I was waiting in the line for the ladies I spotted
Patience from The Grates. I thought it was too creepy to ask for a photo with her while waiting in the line for the loos, so I settled for a hello.
Then yesterday we walked down the stairs from the High Line Park (M-pie and Jmack - thank you - best suggestion ever) into the Meat Packing district and straight onto the film set for a new chick flick starring
Kate Hudson and
Ginnifer Goodwin (she plays Gigi in 'he's just not that into you'). Its due out next year - called 'Something Borrowed'.
This is what my pictures would have looked like if I had an awesome zoom-lens camera (*thank you paparazzi!)
But I don't. I have a knock-about Canon point and shoot. Which I love! and I rarely need extra zoom and super lens' to take photos of celebs ;)
As we were loitering around the film set, this guy 'Ivan from Croatia' chatted us up. I believe his role in the film crew is to stop people walking down the public street so as not to interfere with the film set. He bailed us up for AGES talking talking talking. THEN it lead to him wanting to catch up with us for drinks. He gave his digits to the Big Sissa and then wanted hugs and kisses goodbye. This is a shot of the Big Sissa trying to escape a grimy hug and kiss. I had already walked away - he was creeping me a little too much.
Later in the afternoon we headed north to Radio City Music Hall. The Big Sissa had heard that the premiere of
Sex and the City 2 was on that evening. We braved the masses on the side walk just as the stars were starting to walk down the red carpet. There was a barricaded section for spectators to stand in but behind that was the side walk where security and police were moving people along so we couldn't hang around and watch. We saw a lady sweettalk her way into the packed barricade next to us and we tried to do the same. This didn't go down so well as the people inside the barricade were already so squished and everyone had been lining up for hours, whereas we just rocked up. The Big Sissa pleaded that 'We've come all the way from Australia!' and a lovely Aussie guy who was already behind the barricades turned and smiled at us, opened up the barricade and created some space in front of him for us. Once inside it was still pretty squishy but it was a team effort with the people around us to guess who all the stars were (there were lots of others besides the SATC actors). Great times.
SJP came out to greet the crowds! She was the 0nly one. Oh my - she is soooo hot!
Big.
Samantha.
Aiden.
By this time my camera died as it was so low on batteries. I had to resort to my trusty old mobile phone camera. (My shitty old Nokia has come through with the goods so many time recently that I should really stop bagging it).
Carrie.
Charlotte.
Miranda.
Wow.. What a day!!!
