The Good Wife
Mar 31st, 2009 by Alan Yu
Wow I was on this set for a long time yesterday. It was for a CBS tv pilot called “The Good Wife”. From what I gathered it had something to with a politician who went to jail for some reason and later in life the wife goes into the world of being a lawyer. I was then reading some info on the Internet and it sounded close enough to what I heard. lol.
My schedule started at 11am and ended at almost 2am the next day. The set wasn’t too bad to work on overall. I met a lot of interesting people too. One note was that one of the person in charge of managing us informed us that this production was very picky/fussy about how things had to be.
Everything from the costume to getting the shots exactly right. They then said because of that the small group of us who were there was specifically hand picked to work on this as this production required definite professional and they wanted to make sure they brought in the right people. That was a cool gesture I thought.
This is the first time where a makeup artist used a spray on makeup on me. Was weird. There were some heated moments I saw where the costume department was being hackled in changing people to certain types of looks from the creative staff. Since the show was being shot for 12+ hours a day non stop they were then complaining that they simply don’t have time nor do they have a large variety of set clothing items.
Again, it was enjoyable overall. I met quite a few aspiring filmmakers too on set which might turn into some possible future work or collaborations. I am booked for another production tomorrow, so let’s see how that one turns out.
