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They are always filming something in Toronto, I have walked through countless sets in the background while they were filming or been just off camera while they do the take... Never as an extra, just as someone trying to get on with his day.
The three most memorable:
1) Long Kiss Goodnight (Geena Davis/Samuel L Jackson film). I was trying to get to work and they were filming a scene in the alley way across the road. The shot had the street in the background. They had the street dressed for Christmas. They had extras walking back and forth but were letting regular people walk through as well so we could get where we were going... Don't think my take made it in the film the cool part was seeing Bloor Street all dressed up for Christmas and the mess they made in an otherwise clean alley.
2) Some nameless and surely forgptten straight to video film. They shot this right outside my office window (if there wasn't glass, I could have reached out and smacked the actors in the head). The scene they were filming involved the end of a car chase where the perps exit their car and get chased on foot by the cops, shoot a lot of guns and then duck into the adandoned warehouse. For the better part of the day I had front row seats to gun fight after gun fights (very loud). Try explaining to clients on the phone that no actually everything is OK and that I'm not pinned down by a crazed guntoting co-worker.
3) Resident Evil 2. There is a scene where they were racing across a bridge with the black cars in a convoy... take after take I had to wait while they shot and re-shot the scene... finally letting us across the bridge. Definately not in the shot but it was cool to watch (the first take at least... after that it was just a drag).
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