Close Encounters of the Celebrity Kind: The All-Nighter Edition
On Friday, I mentioned that there was a movie filming in DC and that we might be going to try to catch a glimpse and photo with the stars. I also made a vision board with Paul Rudd’s photo on it so that I would increase my chances of meeting him.
I am here to tell you that I am now a firm believer in the power of the vision board. It totally works!!
Let me tell you how the night unfolded. It was long and crazy, but in the end we had a really fun time.
After dropping the kids off at my mom’s, we set out to go stalking the movie set around 7pm. We drove through torrential downpours and hail and finally got down to DC about 8ish. When we arrived on set we found out that they wouldn’t be filming until 1am.
Now most sane people would turn around and drive home. We did debate a little about whether or not to stick around. I mean even if we did watch the filming there was no guarantee we were going to get up close and personal with the stars. As I’ve learned from past experience, filming is a long and tedious process. It takes hours to set up for a scene that is only a few minutes long and then they film that same scene over and over and over again. We decided to eat dinner and then do some investigating to see whether or not it would be worth it to stick around.
After eating dinner, we stopped in a Starbuck’s right down the street from where they were going to be filming to kind of just hang out for a bit. While we were in there, I asked if anyone had heard anything about who would be filming tonight and the guy working there pointed to these two very official looking ladies carrying very official looking clipboards and said, “This is who you want to talk to.” So I asked and they said that it would be Jack Nicholson and Paul Rudd filming a scene. Then the other lady chimed in that Reese Witherspoon and Owen Wilson would also be there. Once I heard that they would all be there I knew we had to stay.
We sat outside of the Starbuck’s and started chatting with these two girls sitting next to us. Well, it ended up that the one girl was the girl that I had been talking to on Twitter earlier that day. She was the one who had given me the information about the location for filming. There were so many people there to see the stars that I thought it was so strange that we ended up meeting. It is such a small world! By the end of the night we had all become great friends.
We met so many interesting people that night. There was a girl there who had went to high school with Reese. Then we met another girl who was madly in love with Paul Rudd and had been dragging her husband around all day to stalk him (and let me just say he didn’t seem very excited to be there). The cast and crew were so friendly, as were the bodyguards to the stars. There were some real freaks out too, but overall everyone was so warm and friendly.
We decided to walk around a bit to see if we could find the “base camp” with the trailers. We found two trailers, but we had no idea who they belonged to. We asked a guy outside the trailer who looked like a bodyguard and apparently the one belonged to the director and the other one was Jack Nicholson’s. It became our mission to hang out near Jack’s trailer to catch a glimpse. Unfortunately, when the bodyguards got word that he would be coming out they made us leave so we didn’t get a good opportunity to ask him for a pic.
As the night went on we saw Paul Rudd. He appeared a lot shorter and smaller in stature than I would have thought he would be. I know that a lot of Hollywood is small but it caught me off-guard. He did look cute but just not how I expected.
After Paul and Jack finished filming their scene, Jack walked by and waved to everyone. He was guarded by three security guys so there was no way we were going to get a pic but he looked really cool. He was wearing his signature shades (at night) and he did this two handed wave that just looked very….well… Jack-like if you know what I mean.
Reese finally came on the set and we did get a great glimpse of her as she was walking to her car to leave. Now I know we all have seen her in movies and it is common knowledge that she is very pretty, but she is actually even more beautiful in person. I mean she looked absolutely STUNNING. It was exactly how you would expect a movie star to look but even better. She was wearing this bright red dress and her hair was all done up and blowing in the wind. I couldn’t believe how breathtaking she was.
Supposedly, Jake Gyllenhaal was on the set the night before to watch Reese filming, but he never showed up on Friday. That was a bit of a bummer. Unfortunately, we also didn’t get a good glimpse of Owen either.
As the night wore on, it was becoming more and more obvious that we may not meet any stars. We once again debated about whether or not to leave. In the end we stayed all night which was kind of crazy, but also really fun. We stayed for two reasons. One, we ended up sitting at a table that was in the background of the background actors, so we were hoping that we might be in the scene. For whatever reason this made my husband happy, so I agreed to stay. We also had so much fun talking and laughing with our new friends (the girls from Twitter) that we didn’t really want to leave.
Then we got word from one of the crew that Paul would be leaving and getting into a car that was parked right where we were sitting so we kept waiting and waiting for him. Well, he ended up filming another scene so by the time he left it was dawn. We were so exhausted but the end result was that we did get to meet him and take a picture (notice the sun coming up in the background):
He was really tired from filming all night so we were so grateful that he took the time to come over and meet us. He seemed like a very down to earth guy and all of the crew that we spoke with said that he was so easy-going and nice to them.
It was a really long night. After we left we went down to the White House which was a few blocks away and took some photos in front of it.
Here’s a little known fact…at 6:30 in the morning there is no one in front of the White House taking pictures so you can have the whole place to yourself. You could moonwalk up and down Pennsylvania Ave and no one would blink an eye at you. We were way too tired to moonwalk but we got a few photos before heading home.
Me and my celebrity stalker partner in crime….
My new celebrity stalker buddies from Twitter…
It is law that you must end all long and crazy nights with a trip to Denny’s so that is exactly what we did.
I’m so excited to have a new photo to add to my collection. I wonder who we will meet next. Hopefully the vision board will make all of my celebrity stalking dreams come true!
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What an awesome story it sounds like so much fun!!!! I’ve never done anything like this and now I’m regretting it. And what a great picture for your collection.
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Wow that is so cool! Okay I’m sold on vision boards now!
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That’s it.
You are now my new best friend and I am coming to stay with you forever.
(I am so not kidding)
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I’ll go along next time…. this is soooooo cool!
Shorter than you thought or not, he’s still adorable!
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Uh, that’s a little freaky…
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That is so cool. You have the best luck when meeting the stars.
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That is so awesome! Someday….someday I’ll meet a real star and NOT be asked where the bathroom is.
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That’s an awesome story!
I just may have to make a vision board too now.
Think. Gerry Butler!
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You are so cool? Take me, next time!!!!
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Yay to stalking!!!! Great photos – and yes it is a very small world. I once travelled from England to Florida only to see a class mate (who I didn’t know was going) was behind me in the queue for a ride – VERY spooky!
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Yay for the vision board! I love that your husband is so cool with your “stalking” and goes with you. Y’all are so fun! : )
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Just testing out this comment luv thing to see if it works.
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aw that is awesome and yay for paul being so nice. seriously that picture is divine and he is adorable, heart him!
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and I was just daydreaming meeting Ry outside my apartment!
I do need a vision board!
and I was so happy for u, u did get to meet Paul
congrats
and dont worry hun! u are totally getting to meet Ry some day! Im positive about it!
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Wow can we trade lives for like, a week maybe? I would love to met someone famous. You blog is so much fun to read…I have this unhealthy obsession for famous people & pop culture so this gives me a little fix!
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That is SO awesome!!!! I loved reading about this – I sure have missed my blog reading
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