This just In...

Some time ago I did an episode of CSI. In a flash-back scene my daughter, seen here in "artistic pain", was pushed out of a tree house. Just as they were setting the "blood pooling" scene her mother snapped this picture. They sent me a copy recently.

The little actress was all excited to do this scene until the special effects team started pumping the blood under her head. It was cold and she had to remain perfectly still for a very long time over several takes. When she got up she was covered with the sticky red ooze. I am sure her affection toward acting changed that day at just this moment. She was a trouper, however, and looked very dead for the camera. Pretending can be a lot of work for a little kid.

I remember the director yelled to the props guy to get some blood. Props replied, "What kind of blood?" In fact props had an entire trailer full if different kinds of blood. Pooling blood, dried blood, blood with guts, blood for clothes, blood that would not run, two day old blood, week old blood, blood in capsules that could go in your mouth... he had every kind of cinema blood available. A show like that must be much more interesting to work on than most.

As you were,

Jay