My Day At A White Collar Location Shoot - Part III

[elrhiarhodan]

1.  Meta experience x 3.  A double-decker tour bus completely bedecked in White Collar advertising kept passing the location.  The first time, the whole cast and crew sent up cheers.  The second time, they had to stop filming and reset the take.  The third time, no one cared.

2.  Matt Bomer is AWAYS singing.  He was singing when he was getting his hair fluffed, his makeup retouched, signing autographs. 

3.  Tim DeKay must have had classical ballet training.  At one point, while waiting for a take to be reset, he's in first position, then glide into third position.  His hands were flat over his belly and his shoulders were completely straight - the posture of a dancer.  And he kept doing the thing with the pointed toe when he was stepping on and off the curb.  It's been too many years for me to remember exactly what that movement's called.

And that's really it. 

We have to do this in October, my friends.  A politely behaved flash mob.  Seriously. 

Comments

[suebsg9.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the rest of the report; enjoyed all of it wish I could go in october. They get a third season know I am going to New York next year for sure :)

[penguingal.livejournal.com]

Hee! The idea of Matt just singing randomly everywhere as he wanders around is awesome. I love his voice.

[sonia6349.livejournal.com]

FLASH MOB!!! I'm sooo in! Tim, doing ballet exercises, I just....IDEK, what that image will do to my fried little brain if I let it in. Out, damn'd spot! Out, I say!

[elrhiarhodan]

Well, if your brain is anything like mine...it's in a pretty bad state.

[photoash.livejournal.com]

What was Matt singing though?!?!! :D Inquiring minds want to know <3

[elrhiarhodan]

I think it was the Folgers song...but I can't be 100% positive.

Sorry, bb.

[rain-dancer84.livejournal.com]

Tim said in an interview that he learned his daughter's ballet dances so that he could practice with her! That may explain the 1st and 3rd positions.

[deepbluemermaid.livejournal.com]

Ohhh, I may die of squee. That's too adorable!

[elrhiarhodan]

I am flailing with delight at the thought of Tim DeKay with his daughter in her leotards and the two of them practicing at the barre. And she's correcting him...

"No daddy, you hold your arms like this"

Adorable, YES. Adorkable...EVEN MORESO!

[daniel-shadow.livejournal.com]

That's awesome!! I now have it in my head of Matt singing all day!!

[lionessvalenti.livejournal.com]

Oh man. The image of Tim doing ballet moves is really too much for me to handle. So. Adorable.

[jrosemary.livejournal.com]

Aw--thanks so much for these insights into Matt and Tim. Thanks for this whole series about your on location experience! (Now I can pretend I was there.)

[rain-dancer84.livejournal.com]

Here is an excerpt about ballet from an interview:

Tim: Yeah, about me. I'm a pretty active dad, I'll be honest with you. I coach my son's little league team—

Panel: How old are your kids?

Tim: They're ten and seven and we went to the California World Series last year, pretty good team.

Panel: [Indiscernible] are they still in LA?

Tim: They're in LA. So—they were here with me all through August and then they had to fly back. You know, for a second season, we'll take another look at this, and my daughter is a big—she loves ballet and she's now taking the flute. That just came about yesterday. She's playing the—taking piano lessons as well and for all of my daughter's recitals, I learn all of her steps, so she and I can go and do that.

Panel: Yeah, we don't have questions now, we're all gobsmacked.

Panel: Do their friends realize that you're famous? Like, are you a celebrity when you go to their school?

Tim: No, no, you guys—here's what you got to realize, they go to school where, like, Andy Garcia is dropping off their kids and—

Panel: So everybody's famous.

Tim: Well, not everybody, but it's just—everybody works at the plant, when you—in LA and everybody who goes to school works at the plant in one way or another. You know, there's—the kids are still excited. "Coach Tim! Coach Tim! We saw—I saw you last night on the–!" You know, yeah, they're excited for that. You know, and then you ask, "Well, did you watch the whole episode?" "No, no."

The interview can be found here: http://www.tv.com/white-collar-and8211-matt-bomer-and-tim-dekay-set-visit-interview-and8211-part-ii/webnews/2119.html