Blood Relative rehearsals: day 1
Cristin Milioti and Marypat Farrell rehearse a scene in the kitchen of our primary location. Cristin plays a distraught young mother who seeks the advice of a psychic — and gets more than she bargained for!
If you haven’t heard of Cristin Milioti, that will change. She gave a clobbering great performance on a recent episode of 30 Rock, and this fall she’s scheduled to be the female lead in the Broadway production of Once. She’s been in all kinds of New York theater and, although she is a generation younger than your humble journal-keeper, knows everyone in New York that I know.
Blood Relative: the party
To celebrate the beginning of production, we had a party for the cast and crew of Blood Relative at our primary location, a house in Topanga Canyon. A splendid time was had by all, and then we all sat down to read through the script. Which is a scary thriller with lots of twists!
Left to right: James Urbaniak, Toby Huss, your humble correspondent and Cristin Milioti. Mr. Urbaniak’s left hand is still whole: the blurring is an effect of the camera’s shutter speed. For those interested, Mr. Urbaniak here models his Order of the Triad t-shirt. (Mr. Urbaniak informs me that he doesn’t actually intend to wear Venture Bros clothes everywhere he goes, he just gets dressed in the dark, like any other aging slacker.)
Ms. Milioti contemplates calling her agent to see if there’s any way she can get out of this project.
Mr. Urbaniak, on the other hand, is an old hand at dealing with the director, and calms down with a nice brewski.