So You Had a Bad Day
Director Mike Figgis spent longer at LAX airport than intended. He’d arrived in Los Angeles, along with half the acting and directing world, for what is known as ‘pilot season’, when the big studios try out new scripts, directors and actors in a two-week frenzy of auditions and career make-or-breaks. When Figgis was being grilled by airport immigration, he was asked the purpose of his visit. Unthinking and tired after a long flight, Mike replied: ‘I’m here to shoot a pilot.’ After five hours in an interrogation cell (yes, really), he finally made it into town.
Hm. From the Guardian UK. Hmmm. That smells a little too Shergoldy to me. What this means is that those employees at LAX must never have dealt with people in show business before, and I’m not quite sure that could be accurate. However, it’s still a good story.
Posted by Brin-Marie McLaughlin on 05/29 at 11:29 AMTwo days later, here’s a confession from the man hisself: “BoingBoint.net claims to have received an e-mail from Figgis, claiming that the whole story is blown out of proportion. “If it had been true it would have been a good story - sorry to dissappoint [sic],” Figgis said in the purported letter.”
Posted by Brin-Marie McLaughlin on 05/31 at 08:36 AM
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