Disclaimer: I'm writing this post here because I can't anything about this on facebook because my actors might see it and be made uncomfortable. This also might make my father, mother or younger sister uncomfortable. Sorry.
SO: Quick changes.
This is really the first show I've had to do serious amount of quick changes in. We have a team of dressers at SSC and at Bennington, well, I was in the booth 90% of the time, so I never hands-on managed anything messy.
We have A LOT of quick changes in Sherlock. Our shortest one is about 40 seconds (1910s English aristocrat --> WWI trench soldier) and I believe there are 10 in total, all in the second act.
This means I spend a lot of the second act ripping clothes off other people.
Basically, what I'm wondering (looking at you here, Kinch): does everybody think about sex while they quick change people, or is it just me? It's not all the time and it's not every time but recently I've come to realize that a big part of my job right now is getting men's pants off as quickly as possible and it just makes my mind wander a little.
Now, this should be said:
I do not want to have sex with anyone in my cast.
I do not want to go further down their clothing layers than I already do.
but I feel like it pops into my head a lot when I'm backstage frantically unbuckling a belt. Because when else do people put such energy into getting clothes off NOW?
Knowing my luck, someone at work will see this and I'll get fired and probably sued for sexual harassment and then thrown in jail and I'll rot away until I look like Otto from Sons of Anarchy even though I never said or did anything, just thought it and then wrote it down in my blog.
Actually - I'm going to go remove my blog link from my facebook right now, just until a few more posts have shown up to cover this one.
No one really reads this anyway but Maria...right? Of course right.
I won't get sued...
right?
TO REITERATE: I DO NOT WANT TO HAVE SEX WITH ANYONE IN MY CAST.
(Kelly, please don't fire me.)
I love you, and I totally get where you're coming from.
ReplyDeleteI read it too!
ReplyDeleteAnswer: It's hard not to think about it. I've also sort of become desensitized to the ripping clothes off people part. It's just my job. It's what they hire me to do. I think of myself more as an assistant. I assist people in taking their own clothes off and getting into new ones. Remember, there's always (usually) that part: getting into new clothes.
I like to think of myself as a dresser, not an undresser.