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From the ol’ Paul Rudd Google Alert: someone took illicit video of Paul Rudd and Reese Witherspoon shooting a scene for their upcoming romantic dramedy currently titled “The Untitled James L. Brooks Project” in the Adams Morgan neighborhood in D.C. Nothing really happens in it, but that’s what makes it fascinating (at least to me). On some level we all know how boring, frustrating, and exhausting it must be to actually act in movies, but for the most part we’re not privy to that part of the job. But, man, how much like real work does this look?

I guess I still harbored the naive notion that Paul Rudd’s life was all hilarious ad-libbing and riffing back and forth with the Apatow gang, but here’s proof that sometimes it’s standing around for hours trying to pretend to hail a cab without the huge crowd of hundreds of people watching from the sidelines yelling too loudly and messing up the shot. (Assuming there isn’t supposed to be a huge crowd of people watching Paul Rudd’s character hail a cab.) Hey, D.C. folks, there are rules for when there’s a movie filming in your neighborhood: you try to grab a muffin from the craft services table and then you go along your merry way.

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  1. glitterandgranola  |   Posted on Jun 24th, 2009

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  3. When did Moby become a scene marker?

    • let’s all agree not to make that joke anymore. unless you hang out in the meatpacking district. then … par for the course.

  4. are there really movie shoot hecklers??? because that seems like a shitty thing to do.

    pro-tip: i saw parts of public enemies being filmed, but i kept my mouth shut and kept walking.

  5. fred  |   Posted on Jun 24th, 2009

    who cayes? (fred armisted as joy behar)

  6. “Romantic dramedy”? That’s just code for a movie about how tough it is to be white, again, right?

  7. i presume this is the sequel to overnight delivery

  8. Jimminy jillikers!

  9. This movie is gonna be so SASSY!

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  12. Lindsey, when you DATE other guys, do you accidentally call them PAUL?

  13. This is a couple blocks from my house; it inconvenienced me getting home in a cab last night. Best story: A friend of a friend walked up to Owen Wilson at a bar here in D.C. last night and started berating him along those same lines, i.e., “Stop filming in our neighborhood, you’re pissing us off.” Quite a switch from the usual fawning he gets, I would guess.

    • Agreed. They made a bus wait for Paul “I would marry him too Lindsay so ignore those haters” Rudd? oh HEALL NO. This is worse than when Margot At The Bodysnatchers blocked off that Metro stop. Celebrities Out Of Our Commute!

  14. reese witherspoon and my mom went to the same high school

  15. they’re actually booked for a reservation at the restaurant I work @ later this week to shoot. Word is Jack Nicholson will be there too. I’ll try to send some updates from the scene. riveting, huh?

  16. “you try to grab a muffin from the craft services table and then you go along your merry way.” LOTS OF LOVE! I snorted.

  17. “how much like real work does this look?” – haha, said the blogger :P

  18. Matt  |   Posted on Jun 25th, 2009

    This looks like another dumb movie with extremely overrated Reese Witherspoon.

    Her Penelope and Four Christmases are just terrible.

  19. movieman  |   Posted on Jun 28th, 2009

    I stabilized this shot since its so good, by why not improve where we can… Enjoy.

    http://bit.ly/18FwpV

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