When Meeting Celebrities Goes Amazingly... Or Disastrously

Montgomery 6 month s ago

I've met and hung out with a lot of celebrities through the years. But the weirdest was in Autumn of '92 in Amherst, MA when I was in my early 20's. I've only been awake for about 15 minutes one morning and I had to go to work, which was at a bike shop about 200 yards from my house in the center of Amherst. I was walking still bleary-eyed from sleep through the alley I always use, when I look up and a long Kraft's Services table and no body around except for Nicole Kidman in a chair eating an apple. I looked at her with my eyes squinted because I couldn't really believe what I was looking at, and she looked back at me with the same look. I walked past her as we're still staring at each other and then I ended up walking onto the set next to the director in a chair. Bill Pullman and Alec Baldwin are sitting at a small table outside of Bonducci's Cafe about 10 feet from me. All of a sudden this large woman with headphones comes up and says, "Are you in this scene?" I'm like, "Umm...no." She say's, "Do you wanna?" I'm like, "Okay." She stuffs her hand in her coat and hands me a wad of bills. "I need you to just walk past those actors like a regular pedestrian when the Director says 'action'." I did the scene three times, and she said "Thank you, that's all."

They ended up not using the scene. But it was an unexpected fun little adventure. When I later counted the wad of bills, it was $376.00.

By the way...The movie was called, "Malice."

"I was in New York with some friends on spring break and we all decided to try and grab some last minute, seat filling tickets. It's where you pretty much have to sit alone and get bizarre seats but the tickets are really cheap and you can get them pretty much the day of the show without a big problem so long as you aren't picky about the show. Well I lucked out and got into "Exit the King" with Geoffrey Rush on opening night. It was great, but that isn't the story. During intermission I went to use the urinal and Hugh Jackman comes and pees next to me (no I didn't look at his w**g like all my friends ask if I did). I think "Woah, it's Hugh Jackman" and keep doing my thing. Then Kurt Russell walks up the the urinal on my left. We all finish at the exact same time and move to the sinks. I tell Hugh Jackman I love his work and he makes a great wolverine, but that I thought Wolverine Origins looked like it was going to be terrible (I don't know why I said this, I guess because I was starstruck). Kurt Russell laughs and Hugh Jackman says, "Oh, like Deathproof was something to write home about."All three of us laughed and parted ways forever. It was so bizarre.**TL;DR I can pee longer than Wolverine and Snake Plissken.**."

When Meeting Celebrities Goes Amazingly... Or Disastrously

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Montgomery 6 month s ago