Tuesday, June 19, 2007
Making Movies
Almost one year ago to the day I drove to Charlottesville to shoot a small part in the movie Evan Almighty. We actually recorded my small, very small part in a warehouse about twenty miles north of Charlottesville off of route 29. There are people in Hollywood that are hired to find buildings and locations to shoot movies. This warehouse was a mini city generating its own electricity and feeding over 200 hundred people 3 meals a day, at any time of the day or night.
It was extremely hot that day with temperatures well over 90 degrees but inside that warehouse the temperature hovered around sixty degrees. I play a weatherman in the movie. I guess that's because I play one on TV. I don't want to give it away but while the family is eating dinner I am in the background calling for more dry weather. Steve Carell's family, Lauren Graham from Gilmore Girls plays his wife, sees and hears me but Steve, Evan sees and hears Morgan Freeman, God. Morgan tells Steve to build an arc because a flood is on the way. Evan, a clean cut congressman, essentially morphs into Noah over the course of the movie. Most of the movie was shot in DC or in nearby Virginia. The movie is rated PG so most of your family can see it. It opens in theatres this Friday, June 22nd. Don't get popcorn or get up to go the bathroom when I come on or you will miss my big screen debut.
Topper & Director Tom Shadyac (Tom also directed Bruce Almighty, Liar Liar, Nutty Professor and Patch Adams to name just a few.)
Topper & Steve Carell
Topper's "Trailer" ! ¶ 9:50 PM
It was extremely hot that day with temperatures well over 90 degrees but inside that warehouse the temperature hovered around sixty degrees. I play a weatherman in the movie. I guess that's because I play one on TV. I don't want to give it away but while the family is eating dinner I am in the background calling for more dry weather. Steve Carell's family, Lauren Graham from Gilmore Girls plays his wife, sees and hears me but Steve, Evan sees and hears Morgan Freeman, God. Morgan tells Steve to build an arc because a flood is on the way. Evan, a clean cut congressman, essentially morphs into Noah over the course of the movie. Most of the movie was shot in DC or in nearby Virginia. The movie is rated PG so most of your family can see it. It opens in theatres this Friday, June 22nd. Don't get popcorn or get up to go the bathroom when I come on or you will miss my big screen debut.
Topper & Director Tom Shadyac (Tom also directed Bruce Almighty, Liar Liar, Nutty Professor and Patch Adams to name just a few.)
Topper & Steve Carell
Topper's "Trailer" ! ¶ 9:50 PM
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Congrats on the movie part, Topper. That is a great achievement since they could have picked any television meteorologist in the nation.
David Abbou, Stafford, VA
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