30 Rock shoot

After the interview/audition for a featured part on 30 Rock, I was sent to fitting. It's a huge closet-room, with three people workin, I guess a seamstress and costume designers? So the woman who plays the Latina and me are given several outfits to try on. They are funny, and cheap, and trying them on was a bit embarrassing as it was fun. It was like releasing your inner " slut" if you have one. A lot of polyester, leopard patterns, flammable materials...too short, or transparent or both.
I'm trying a dress on. I come out for the designers to see me. One says: "I think you have it reversed..." The big hole is suppose to go in front, not in the back. I felt like I was already in a comedy.
After they chose costumes they liked on us, and photographed us for the director to see, we were released with the 11AM call time for the shoot.
The day after, I come back to the same Silvercup Studios, go to the same holding, where we wait for the wardrobe and makeup, before the shoot. So the assistant producer, whose sole job on this day is to take care of me and the other actress, explains where the craft services are so I can grab a drink and maybe a bite. I go down, to the ground floor, through some very long hallways, and out to what it looks like a storage area. But this bare-wall, grey area, high and cold, is what connects different studios where different scenes are shot. I get to the craft, which is a long table with food and drinks on it, anything you could think of from pastry to coffee. I grab a small pastry, and next to me is Alec Baldwin. He's wearing a dark gery suit and has tones of makeup on his face. He's obviously shooting somewhere near by. I don't want to behave like a layman, so I behave like a professional, just saying hello to him, normally. He says hello back, while he munches on something, and I get some tea and leave. There were several other people around there, including Tracy Morgan.
But I'm here to do a job, and I don't want to be away for a long time fro where I'm suppose to be, so I go back to my holding room. From there, two of us were escorted by an assistant producer to the wardrobe, where they had a different outfit picked out for me--a short leopard dress and green platform sandals, two sizes too big.
They liked it on me, and then they send both of us to makeup.
To get to makeup, you go past the craft services again, but Baldwin was there no more.
We bumped into the blond, young actor who plays the paige on the show. Kennan? He was nice, said hello as well, and left. Then, Jane Krakowski walked in. I believe hers and Tina Fey's dressing rooms, are just off the makeup and hair room. So I had my makeup done, in the 80s style, then my hair, and I looked ridiculous. My hair was huge, and I had way too much makeup on me. While it was done, Tina Fey walked in, and soon, another makeup artists was doing her simultaniously as mine. I could see her in my mirror. She had her back to me. When I was done, Jane Krakowski came to me and said something along the lines: "I don't think we were introduced... Hi, I'm Jane."
"Hi, I'm Marija Stajic, it's a pleasure to meet you...You were great in Ally McBeal..."
"Thank you," she said. "Are you Polish?"
I guess my accent...
"No, I'm Serbian, but you're of Polish origin...right...Krakowski?"
"Yes..."
We chatted for a another minute. The Slavic connection.
She was very nice. She's very thin, and also had a lot of makeup on her face. But, hey, it's TV.
As a matter a fact, everyone there was extremely pleasant. Everyone was smiling while working. "It's such a happy work environment," I remember thinking...
I also remember Ms.Fey joking while they were doing her makeup and putting the wig on for our scene.
Then I was taken back to holding.
The lunch. Tina Fey comes in and has lunch with everyone else, the production line, in this big communal dinning room, with million buffets, again, with anything I could possibly think of from fish to desert.
The lunch is done an hour later. We are still waiting for our scene to be called upon, in our costumes. It's already the afternoon...
After lunch? It's such a long story...
Tune in tomorrow :)