Trial by Ice Time

Holy shit. Started work today at 2:30 am. . . Put on full goalie gear at 4:am. . . stayed in it until 9:am . . . skating, skating, skating. The other actors with more skating experience lasted longer than i did and I gave in after lunch and let my photo double do some of the work. I think they decided to cut me a break since they had to come get me twice after lunch for blocking. I had fallen back asleep after the the first time!

Man oh man, was it tough. Still so much damned fun, unbelieveable. I'm glad I was able to get the right size goalie skates in the end. I discovered that the ones I'd been renting over the holidays were two sizes too small and no wonder I was in agony!! I couldn't last 2 laps in those and I lasted 4 1/2 hours in the larger ones.

I think this show will be great. The actors are all fantastic, the director is something else, he's an incredible skater (spent the majority of the shoot in skates, directing and at one poing even running the steady cam while following his goalies around the ice!). I am too tired to give a better account and still have to finish preparing for tomorrow's studio stuff. We're done with the hockey for all the episodes that feature it and now move on to the acting. Even after my four hour nap this afternoon, I'm ready to go down for another four or five hours.

Rent A Goalie will air in the fall of 2006 at some point on Showcase. Not sure of time/days yet, but I'm sure that info will come soon.