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VOL. 5, ISSUE 5 • September/October 2014 EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Micah Haley CREATIVE DIRECTOR Erin Theriot ADVERTISING ART DIRECTOR Kelli Binnings PRODUCTION DESIGNER Michelle Preau EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS Samantha Roberge, Rachel McMullen, Kate Bannon, Christine Samarchi GRAPHIC ART DIRECTOR Burton Chatelain, Jr. SALES Beth Burvant, Lauren Fain, Andy Romero

EDITOR’S LETTER

am chairing a campaign in conjunction with LFEA, the Louisiana Film & Entertainment Association. Soon, we’ll issue a challenge to everyone in Louisiana who’s been affected by the film industry. The challenge is to say, “Here’s my two bucks.” Film in Louisiana is incredibly popular. But there are still some naysayers who want to say, “You don’t exist.” They want to say that film only benefits a small handful of people. I don’t think that’s true. I’ve seen the positive effects of the entertainment industry and they are wideranging, across all sectors of the economy and all demographics. In fact, we created Scene Magazine to tell that story, every day. But now we want to prove it. So we’re going to issue a public challenge. To the actors and extras. To the crew members who make movie

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magic everyday at work. To the hotels who house them. To the restaurants and bars who feed them. To the realtors who’ve sold them houses. To the schools who teach their children. To the heavy equipment companies, the car rental services, the car dealerships, the lumber companies, the travel agencies, the catering companies. To the people who have benefited directly from the billion dollar industry that is Louisiana film. We’re challenging you to speak up. To say, “Here’s my two cents?” C’mon, I know you’ve benefited more than that! Say, “Here’s my two bucks!” And help us #keepitrollin! Go to heresmytwobucks. com to find out how.

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ABOVE THE LINE

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BEFORE THE SCENE

A Conversation with Devon Sawa

COMING SOON 20 SCENE IN GEORGIA

TomorrowWorld

SCENE IN TEXAS

SPORTS

Katy Perry and Iggy Azalea New Orleans Saints Kick Off

SCENE EXTRAS

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Notable News and Celebrities Meghan Trainor Voodoo Experience 2014

FASHION / THE RED CARPET 52 Actress Teri Wyble

HEALTH SCENE 56 Aaron’s Approach to Fitness

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SCENE ON SANDRA BULLOCK Gravity

In the Oscar-winning film Gravity, Sandra Bullock stars as Dr. Ryan Stone, an astronaut fighting to survive after getting lost in space. Bullock is still America’s sweetheart, whether she’s playing an FBI agent alongside Melissa McCarthy, showcasing grace in a beauty pageant or fostering a young football player, she’s always great. Bullock is now heading to New Orleans to film the David Gordon Green-directed film Our Brand is Crisis, which begins shooting in September.

Sandra Bullock as Ryan Stone photo courtesy of Warner Bros.

FRANCES CONROY American Horror Story: Coven

Who could forget redheaded Myrtle Snow from the hit FX series American Horror Story: Coven? Frances Conroy has starred in all three seasons of American Horror Story, but dark and twisted isn’t all Conroy’s known for. She has starred in the comedy series How I Met Your Mother and hilarious and heartfelt Six Feet Under. Conroy heads back to New Orleans to return in the fourth season of American Horror Story entitled Freak Show.

Frances Conroy as Myrtle Snow photo by Michele K. Short

MICHAEL CHIKLIS When The Game Stands Tall

Denis O’Hare as Russell Edgington photo courtesy of HBO

DENIS O’HARE

In the recently released sports drama When the Game Stands Tall, Michael Chiklis starred as Coach Terry Eidson. The film was shot in New Orleans and told the story of a high school football team’s transformation. Chiklis returns to New Orleans to join the Freak Show in the FX series American Horror Story.

True Blood

The former vampire king of Mississippi rejoins the cast of American Horror Story for its fourth season. O’Hare’s role in True Blood as Russell Edgington was funny, terrifying and transcendent. Now O’Hare is heading back to New Orleans to star in Freak Show. Look out, local newscasters! Michael Chiklis as Terry Eidson photo by Tracy Bennett

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SCENE ON GERARD BUTLER Olympus Has Fallen

The handsome young Scottish star Gerard Butler was recently seen in Olympus Has Fallen as a former Presidential bodyman that gets trapped in the White House during a terrorist attack, dying hard to bring the President back to safety. Now Butler is heading to New Orleans to save the President once again in Geostorm.

ABBIE CORNISH Robocop Gerard Butler as Mike Banning photo by Phil Caruso

Abbie Cornish is poised to be a superstar, starring in Sucker Punch, Limitless and most recently, the RoboCop remake, where she starred as the wife of a robot played by Joel Kinnaman. Now this blonde beauty is heading to New Orleans to star alongside Gerard Butler, Jim Sturgess and Ed Harris in Geostorm.

Abbie Cornish as Clara Murphy photo by Kerry Hayes

ELLE FANNING Maleficent

Bryan Cranston as Walter White photo by Frank Ockenfels

Elle Fanning inspired and broke preteen hearts in her roles in Super 8 and Maleficent. Now, Fanning is heading to New Orleans to film Trumbo alongside Breaking Bad star Bryan Cranston, Diane Lane, Helen Mirren and John Goodman.

BRYAN CRANSTON Breaking Bad

The brilliant Bryan Cranston is best known as Tim Watley from Seinfeld. Or, maybe, for his role as Walter White on the AMC series Breaking Bad, giving him three consecutive Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actor. Cranston takes the lead again in the upcoming film Trumbo as Dalton Trumbo, the Hollywood screenwriter who was blacklisted. The film begins shooting in New Orleans in September. But Cranstonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s already sporting the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;stache. 16 | September/October 2014

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DEVON SAWA Devon Sawa is a veteran actor from Vancouver, Canada. His feature film credits include Final Destination, Idle Hands, Casper, Little Giants and the Baton Rouge-shot actioner The Philly Kid. On television, he recently finished his role as Owen Elliot on Nikita. Sawa can next be seen starring in Punk’s Dead and The Exorcism of Molly Hartley.

What made you want to become an actor? I was acting as a child. I was on stage and I really, really loved that, but for a different reason than now. When I first started on stage, it was just a way to channel my energy. Then as a young teenager at thirteen, fourteen years old, I started seeing movies like Goodfellas, Pulp Fiction, Scarface, Apocalypse Now, Dr. Strangelove. All these great films with these great actors and it’s something that I wanted to do. I just wanted to do what they were doing: the Pacinos, the De Niros and the Jack Nicholsons, the Dustin Hoffmans. It just appealed to me. I just wanted to do it.

that. And just kind of refigured it out that acting was something that I really really loved and wanted to do. Four or five years later, now I’m doing it for love and not for what I was doing it for back then.

What kept you from walking away?

I didn’t have a lot of fears. Not being able to perform well, maybe. I was quite fearless as a young man. I think that’s why I succeeded is because I was so fearless. I would go into a room, an audition or whatever, with no care in the world. I think that’s why I was able to be successful early: the lack of fear. Which has changed so much! If I could go back to the way I was as a young man, as a teenager, with no cares, no family, no rent, no nothing like that, and walk into some of the rooms with that feeling? I’m sure I would do a lot better in there! It’s crazy. I did that movie called Idle Hands and I had to audition for the studio. I walked into the studio and threw myself over a table and into a wall, using my hand like it was possessed. To think about doing that now in one of those rooms is ludicrous. It’s insane.

I missed it! When I took that four or five years off, I started to do some other stuff. I got into the real estate business and started to do it, and I didn’t like it. When I was a child actor, my parents talked me into investing all my money into real estate. I saw when I was twenty-five that it was all invested. I just saw how successful it was, so I bought a little apartment building, a seven-unit apartment building in Vancouver and I went through each apartment one by one with different teams of people, renovated them and fixed them up. It was definitely an experience. It didn’t make a lot of money, but it was definitely a good experience. Although I was getting successful in it, I just didn’t like it like I did acting. I liked getting into characters. I liked meeting new people, doing something for three months, and then doing something else for three months. One day I got a script from my old agency. I guess someone at the agency didn’t get the memo that I had stepped away! They sent me a script, I saw it and I thought, “What the hell, I’ll audition.” And I auditioned, and the next week, I was meeting with management and I was back in the business. It’s crazy.

What was your lowest point?

What did you walk away from?

There was a point when I was twenty-four, twenty-five when I took four or five years out of the business. And the reason I did it is because after Final Destination, I did a couple other movies that were decent, and then I started to do these movies that I just didn’t care about. I just lost the drive. And it didn’t turn out very well. I just needed to step back and reassess whether I was doing it for the love, or if it was more important what club or what party was going on at the Playboy Mansion. I lost touch with why I was really in the business. That was probably my darkest point. And then, for five years, I went back to Vancouver, I went to Thailand, to Laos, to Vietnam and just traveled around. Luckily, I was fortunate enough to save a lot of my money, so I was able to do

I sold everything. I sold my house in the Hills in Los Angeles, bought a plane ticket back to Vancouver where I’m originally from and just moved back there. I just left, and told my agents that I needed a break. I was no longer with my management. And that’s it. That was it. I just walked away from L.A. I walked away from my life, basically.

What was your biggest fear?

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Who was your closest ally? My wife now. And my mother. My mother’s been very supportive over the years and I have a very supportive wife. I just had a child with her. Well, she had the child, of course! She did all the hard work. We had a beautiful boy eight months ago and life couldn’t be better.

DEVON SAWA

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What were you doing before the audition that changed your life? I was doing theatre in Vancouver. I was traveling around with a theatre performance company to all the different elementary schools and performing. You know when you’re in school and there would be an assembly once a week and a group would come in and perform? That’s what I did for a while. And one day, I put myself on tape for this national casting call for the part of Casper the Friendly Ghost. I put myself on VHS, sent it down and a week later, I got a call from my agent in Vancouver, saying “Spielberg would like to meet you tomorrow. Could you fly down?” And that was it. No looking back from there. It was crazy. I truly believe that my VHS tape and FedEx package was at the right place, at the right time, on the right assistance’s desk. Cause I’m sure they saw a lot of other people that were fully capable of doing that part. It was just luck. Luck got me there. I’m very grateful.

How have you changed? I don’t take everything so seriously anymore. I know I’m in it for the long run and I just don’t look at everything so seriously. Before when I was in my early twenties, I took everything way too serious: how things did at the box office, what the critics said. God forbid there was Twitter back then, because that would’ve killed me. I just took everything to heart and now I’m a little more relaxed.

What words do you have to inspire others? Don’t give up.

What were the words that kept you going? Don’t give up. That’s the one you hear all the time. In this business, you get so close, so many times and then you don’t get something. Don’t give up. That’s how I live. Don’t give up. In this industry you’ve got to have really thick skin. It’s crazy how close you can get and then it doesn’t happen. And then you’re on to something new and then that gets close. I joke with my agent all the time about how many second place ribbons I have.

A partner in Scene Magazine and the president of Louisiana Entertainment Publishers, AJ Buckley has starred for the last eight years on the hit CBS show CSI:NY. Originally from Dublin and raised in Vancouver, he has spent the last twelve years in Los Angeles acting, writing and directing. He recently finished producing and starring in North of Hell, and currently stars in Justified’s fifth season on FX. Find out more on Twitter @AJohnBuckley and at www.ajbuckley.net.

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COMING SOON

by Michelle Preau NO GOOD DEED • SEPTEMBER 12

No good deed goes unpunished. When Terri (Taraji P. Henson), a suburban wife, unknowingly offers her phone to a dangerous convict (Idris Elba) claiming car trouble, she finds herself fighting to survive when he invades her home. Rated PG-13.

DOLPHIN TALE 2 • SEPTEMBER 12 Blake Rayne, Ashley Judd and Ray Liotta photo by Katherine Bomboy Thornton

THE IDENTICAL • SEPTEMBER 5

Lovable dolphin Winter returns, as a the team of saviors comes together for the passing of her surrogate mother and search for a companion so she can stay at the Clearwater Marine Hospital. Morgan Freeman, Ashley Judd and New Orleans native Harry Connick, Jr star. Rated PG.

Blake Rayne stars as the Elvis-esque son of a preacher with a love for music. Ashley Judd and Ray Liotta play Rayne’s parents, who hope their son will go into the ministry. But he wants something more. Dustin Marcellino directed the film. 107 min. Rated PG.

HONEYMOON • SEPTEMBER 12

The honeymoon. You’ve just been married and on this vacation that’s beautiful and romantic. And terrifying. Experience the horror as newlyweds struggle when their idyllic vacation spirals into chaos. Rose Leslie, Harry Treadaway, Ben Huber and Hanna Brown star. 87 min. Rated R.

THE DROP • SEPTEMBER 12

Bob Saginowski (Tom Hardy) gets tangled up in an investigation after he experiences a robbery. This investigation uncovers the neighborhood’s secrets of the past where everyone works together, no matter the cost, to make a living. 106 min. Rated R.

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THE GUEST • SEPTEMBER 17

Dan Stevens is a charming stranger who knocks on the door to the Peterson family’s home. He claims he is a friend of their son Caleb, who died serving in Afghanistan. But David has something to hide. 99 min. Rated R.

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THE SKELETON TWINS • SEPTEMBER 12

A Sundance favorite, Bill Hader and Kristen Wiig star as estranged twins. Spending ten years apart, the twins are reunited and forced to confront the underlying issues of their life problems. 93 min. Rated R.

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THE MAZE RUNNER • SEPTEMBER 19

Shot in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Wes Ball’s film adaptation of the best selling novel follows Thomas (Dylan O’Brien) as he finds himself trapped in a maze with no memory. He must team up with the other runners and try to escape. 113 min. Rated PG-13.

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The Allen Schwalb Group announces a slate of six faith-based films that will be created through their subsidiary company Star Partners Aspire. Founder Allen J. Schwalb is teaming up with the Co-Producers of God’s Not Dead - Lisa Arnold of Check The Gate Productions and Jarred Coates of Red Entertainment for their first feature film entitled CAGED. Slated to begin filming this summer in Louisiana, CAGED is a compelling action thriller based on the novel by Molly Venzke. This film is the first of a trilogy and is set to release Fall ‘2015. The story highlights Trafficking Hope, a Baton Rouge organization that raises awareness and leads efforts to end human trafficking here in the United States.

OKAY and in order to stop this issue, we will have to spread the word and work together. Stories like CAGED in the media will bring much needed awareness to eradicate this issue.” “Our hope is that everyone that sees this film will understand how prevalent trafficking is and that it could easily impact your family; your home,” says Lisa Arnold, co-founder of Aspire Entertainment and owner of Check The Gate Productions.

Star Partners Aspire is the faith and family division of Star Partners and the Allen Schwalb Group. Previously, Star Partners funded seven slates of films, dating back to the 1980s, including “The Right Stuff,” “The Killing Fields,” “The Color Purple,” “The Mission,” “Moonstruck” and “Rain Man.” They are currently in development of the sequel to “It’s A Wonderful Life”.

“We are excited that through Star Partners Aspire we can continue to build the faith and family film industry in Louisiana”, says Jarred Coates of Aspire Entertainment and Red Entertainment Group.

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COMING SOON THE ZERO THEOREM • SEPTEMBER 19

Qohen Leth (Christoph Waltz) is an isolated computer genius trying to discover the meaning of life. He works on projects delegated to him by Management. He is finally able to understand his reason for being when he experiences the power of love. Matt Damon, Gwendoline Christie and Tilda Swinton also star. 107 min. Rated R.

TUSK • SEPTEMBER 19

Justin Long goes through a major transformation in this upcoming Kevin Smith horror flick. Long’s character is captured and tortured until he eventually becomes a walrus. 102 min. Rated R.

THIS IS WHERE I LEAVE YOU • SEPTEMBER 19

It’s one big happy family all together again. When their father passes away, the four Altman siblings return home and stay under one roof together for a week. Jason Bateman, Tina Fey, Jane Fonda, Adam Driver, Rose Byrne and Corey Stoll star. 103 min. Rated R.

TWO NIGHT STAND • SEPTEMBER 26

The one night stand. You hope to never see your mistake again. But what happens when your walk of shame comes to a halt due to a snowstorm? Analeigh Tipton and Miles Teller star as they are forced to extend their mistake into another day and night. 86 min. Rated R.

THE EQUALIZER • SEPTEMBER 26

A former black ops commander, played by Denzel Washington, faked his death to create a quiet life. When a young girl needs saving he comes out of retirement only to find himself face to face with Russian gangsters. Marton Csokas, Chloe Grace Moretz and David Harbour star. 128 min.

THE BOXTROLLS • SEPTEMBER 26

Based on Alan Snow’s children’s novel, Focus Features’ animated film The Boxtrolls is about a boy who has been raised underground by trash collectors trying to save his friends from a wicked exterminator. 97 min. Rated PG.

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GONE GIRL • OCTOBER 3

Did Nick Dunne murder his wife? Nick (Ben Affleck) becomes a prime suspect when his wife Amy (Rosamund Pike) goes missing on their fifth wedding anniversary. 145 min. Rated R.

ALEXANDER AND THE TERRIBLE, HORRIBLE, NO GOOD, VERY BAD DAY OCTOBER 10

Eleven-year-old Alexander (Ed Oxenbould) is having the worst day of his life. He soon learns that he isn’t alone when his family has just an awful a day. It looks like this is just one of those terrible, horrible, no good, very bad days for this family. Jennifer Garner and Steve Carell star. 81 min. Rated PG.

THE JUDGE • OCTOBER 10

It’s a family reunion in this upcoming drama when big city lawyer Hank Palmer (Robert Downey, Jr.) heads home when his father is suspected of murder. Oh, and his father also happens to be the town judge. Robert Duvall, Leighton Meester, Vera Farmiga and Vincent D’Onofrio star. Rating & Runtime TBA.

LEFT BEHIND • OCTOBER 3

Shot in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, the apocalyptic film is a reboot of the New York Times bestselling novel of the same name. Nicolas Cage stars as a pilot flying a plane full of panicked passengers, while his daughter (Cassi Thomson) struggles on the ground to find her family. Rating & Runtime TBA.

ANNABELLE – OCTOBER 3

The extremely terrifying doll from The Conjuring is front and center with her own spinoff in this upcoming horror prequel. Annabelle Wallis, Alfre Woodard, Eric Ladin, Tony Amendola and Michelle Romano star. Rating & Runtime TBA.

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WHIPLASH • OCTOBER 10

Andrew Neyman (Miles Teller) is a young drummer pushed to his breaking point as he strives to be one of the greats in the music world. The only thing standing in the way is his tough music instructor, played to perfection by JK Simmons. 106 min. Rated R.

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OFF TO TOMORROWWORLD by Arthur Vandelay

three-day festival held in the Chattahoochee Hills just outside of Atlanta, TomorrowWorld is the two-year old sibling of sister festival TomorrowLand, the legendary electronic music festival held every year in Belgium. TomorrowWorld returns for its second year from September 26-28. This yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s TomorrowWorld will feature performances form Avicii, Bassnectar, David Guetta, Diplo, Kaskade, Nicky Romero, Skrillex, Steve Aoki, DJ Tiesto, ZEDD, Borgore, Carnage, Nervo and more. For tickets and the full lineup, visit the official website at www.tomorrowworld.com.

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AT THE TOYOTA CENTER by Elizabeth Glauser

week after Ms. Azalea’s performance, Katy Perry kicks off two nights of shows at Toyota Center for the Houston stop of her Prismatic World Tour. The show takes fans from Egypt’s pyramids to the Katy Perry version of Hollywood, a catthemed California town appropriately named “Kittywood.” The version of Hollywood created by Perry mirrors the new versions of some of her old standards. There’s a jazz version of one of her early hits, mash ups of multiple tracks and a small section of acoustic songs. Perry’s performance of “Birthday” may even mean a special surprise for attendees celebrating the occasion while there. This is the third concert tour for the pop princess and she’s performing for a good cause, partnering with Ticketsfor-Charity. A portion of the ticket sales from this leg of the tour will be donated to charities including UNICEF, Autism Speaks, St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital and Susan G. Komen for the Cure. The pop star’s weekend takeover of Houston starts Friday, October 10 and encores Saturday.

IGGY AZALEA AT BAYOU MUSIC CENTER

First things first: get your tickets. Iggy Azalea, the realist artist on 2014’s summer soundtrack, is coming to Bayou City Music Center in Houston on October 3. After years performing in support of other acts, The New Classic Tour marks Iggy’s first headlining show. She’s had a successful run so far, including a performance at famed Chicago festival Lollapalooza. Concert goers will be treated to the Iggy’s hit “Fancy” as well as her slew of YouTube-fueled singles that put her on hip hop’s radar years earlier. This stop in the tour marks a return to Houston for Azalea, who briefly lived in the Bayou City during her five years in the South. 26 | September/October 2014

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Iggy Azalea

The Aussie rapper left the land down under for the American South as a teenager, cultivating a Southern sound while living in Miami, Houston and Atlanta. Azalea’s successfully combined her adopted Southern style with the energy of EDM. Her debut studio album, The New Classic, has set her up for hip hop stardom, with “Fancy” dominating the airwaves, inspiring viral videos and topping the charts. Check out Iggy Azalea live for an energetic, twerk-heavy performance so you can drop it down and make the whole world feel it.

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NEW ORLEANS SAINTS 2014 by Jacob Peterman

ummers are terrible. But now that the football drought is finally over, our march begins. The New Orleans Saints prospects for the 2014 season are high after some promising moves in the offseason. The rookie to watch is Brandon Cooks, a receiver Loomis and Peyton took in the first round of the NFL Draft. He’s a steal: a very explosive player who can catch the ball and run, allowing him to extend the play. We hear he’s a quick study who’s ingested the playbook quickly and has a good understanding of the offense. And he’s already produced some impressive work in the preseason. That’s not a guarantee of success during the regular season, but it definitely portends great things to come. We’re hoping Cooks will continue to impress, leading the Saints in catches this year. Although the Saints have enjoyed unusual stability at quarterback thanks to the longtime presence of Drew Brees, the Super Bowl caliber quarterback strained his left oblique recently, causing him to miss sixteen days of team practice. That would have been a big loss during the regular season, considering Brees has hit the 5,000 yard mark four times as a Saint. His accuracy and playmaking abilities make him an irreplaceable clutch performer that the Saints need. He was back on the field for the preseason game against the Colts, but the incident is a reminder that Brees isn’t superhuman, and as he ages, there’s an increasing risk of an injury that could seriously hurt the Saints chances this year. If Brees were to incur an injury in the regular season, there are two more boys in Black and Gold that would step in. Backup quarterbacks Ryan Griffin and Luke McCown have both done very well in preseason. The Saints’ quarterbacks are far from alone in the backfield. Mark Ingram, Carrie Robinson and Pierre Thomas are a trio of dynamic playmakers that can take the target off Brees’ back. Ingram and Robinson are terrific runners. Ingram has had the best preseason by far, finally looking confident as he enters his fourth year in the National Football League. Thomas is the best screen runner in the backfield, providing a valuable option in short field scenarios. The team at Scene will be on the sidelines throughout the season, so follow us on Twitter at @SceneEnt and look for more sports coverage online at www.sceneent.com. 28 | September/October 2014

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s the sweltering heat begins to ease, cinephiles look with eager anticipation to the New Orleans Film Festival, held this year from October 16-23. Celebrating its twenty-fifth anniversary, the film festival will open with a screening of the independent drama Black and White, starring Kevin Costner and Octavia Spencer. “It was absolutely thrilling to get Black and White for our opening night film,” says Jolene Pinder, the executive director of the New Orleans Film Festival. “We’re really committed to showing a Louisiana-shot film in that spot and that can be really challenging sometimes depending on each film’s release schedule.” Last year, the opening night slot went to 12 Years a Slave, which went on to win Best Picture at the Academy Awards. Pinder feels like she has another great Louisiana project to launch the festival. “It’s a good fit for our audience, a good fit for the festival and it showcases all that is going on with the film industry here. That’s really exciting! That was the kind of film that we really wanted to give a proper homecoming.” The film festival organizers continue to reach a broad audience. Pinder explains a new program called the Academy Grant funded program will make its debut this year. “It is very exciting. So that includes the Emerging Voices Program for local black filmmakers to be paired up with mentors that are coming to the festival. We have a producer and an executive producer from the film Dear White People coming and we’re trying our hardest to get that film!” Another important component of this year’s festival is the marquee screening series at the Joy Theatre. There will be five days worth of screenings, showing two shows each evening. The goal is to centralize the festival downtown, making it feel like a walking festival. “The Joy Theatre gives us that opportunity,” says Pinder. There are two films presented at the Joy that have particular local appeal, Una Vida and Below Dreams. Closing night ends the festival with a world premiere. The Carver Theater is hosting Joe Lauro’s Rejoice and Shout, a documentary about gospel music. “The story is just such a New Orleans story and it captures history in a way that feels really authentic,” says Pinder. “From all of the archivals that we’ve seen and from some of the interviews that they have, we can tell it’s going to be a special event.” Louisiana’s premier film festival has grown rapidly in the last few years, with more than 20,000 participants last year. This year, filmgoers will again be exposed to world-class films, panel discussions and, for the first time, hands-on workshops. In an effort to connect filmmakers to their audience, free workshops will be offered sharing health and wellness tips, personal training techniques used by A-list celebrities, post32 | September/October 2014

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production clinics in sound and picture finishing and more. “I am thrilled for the opportunity to introduce the community and visiting filmmakers to the growing post production industry in New Orleans, “ says Bradley Greer of Kyotocolor, who will be teaching a post-production seminar. “The fact that these workshops are being offered is indicative of the continued growth and success of the New Orleans Film Festival.”

New Orleans, as well as the state of Louisiana, has come to my rescue more than once as a filmmaker. It was

the difference between me making my movie and not. The group of filmmakers that exists here made it possible, and nothing feels better than bringing it back for them to see the vision that united us all in work.

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cene Magazine has joined with the New Orleans Film Society to offer free workshops as a thank you for supporting the festival. The workshops will be held during the New Orleans Film Festival, complimenting your movie screening schedule with professional, interactive insight into everything from moviemaking to health and wellness. Everything kicks off with a magical happy hour at the Hotel Modern on October 15. Join us from 5-7pm in the Bellocq Lounge to meet and greet the pros who’ll be teaching the Scene Workshops. Stop by for a specialty cocktail from the Smooth Amber Distillery and be dazzled by the close-up magic of worldrenowned magician Steve Reynolds. We’ll also have all the updates on the Scene Workshops and the New Orleans Film Festival.

WORKSHOP 1: WORK OUT LIKE EFRON Actors’ looks are their livelihood. The man that has molded Zac Efron, Emilia Clarke, James Brolin and more into demigods is celebrity trainer – and Scene health and wellness writer - Aaron Williamson. In his ninety-minute workshop, Scene offers participants a unique opportunity to get in front of a personal trainer to the stars. Aaron will answer your questions about nutrition, supplements and effective training techniques, while delivering useful strategies on helping you achieve your fitness goals. Through practical application and demonstration of exercises, participants will leave with a knowledge of macro-nutrients, eating for optimal health, supplements and how you can sculpt your body to look like an A-lister. Date and time TBA.

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Get on Up with

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n 2011, out of relative anonymity, actor Chadwick Boseman landed the coveted lead role in writer/director Brian Helgeland’s 42, a historical biopic about legendary second baseman Jackie Robinson’s baseball breakthrough. Boseman stepped up to the plate, into the shoes of a giant, and hit a grand slam. His Robinson was whole-hearted, a nuanced portrayal of a familiar face from history that very few actually knew. After a pivotal role alongside Kevin Costner in director Ivan Reitman’s sports drama Draft Day, another opportunity to play a historical figure emerged. It was Soul Brother Number One. Mr. Dynamite. The Godfather of Soul. The Hardest Working Man in Show Business. It was 40 | September/October 2014

James Joseph Brown, Jr. Or, just James Brown. The man asking Boseman to play another historical figure was Tate Taylor, whose previous film The Help was nominated for Best Picture at the Academy Awards. The film was Get On Up, a studio biopic about the man himself, James Brown. Boseman accepted, and soon stepped into the sure-footed shoes of a master. And as James Brown, Boseman thrills, every bit the entertainer we expect. He moves like Brown, he sounds like Brown and, even under occasionally heavy makeup, he feels like Brown. The result is an unforgettable performance that celebrates the life of a great American front man, while cementing Boseman as a bona fide leading man.

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ABOVE THE LINE Get On Up is the rare musical biopic that does justice to the history it aspires to retell. The film succeeds at revealing who James Brown actually was, and where the music he made came from. The result is a real drama filled with thrilling musical sequences and moving performances from Boseman, Dan Aykroyd as Ben Bart, Viola Davis as the mother of Mr. Dynamite, Octavia Spencer as Aunt Honey, and the incomparable Nelsan Ellis as Bobby Byrd. Just before Get On Up’s domestic release, the film had two premieres in Mississippi, where the majority of filming took place. Scene Magazine was invited to attend the Natchez premiere, where Chadwick Boseman and director Tate Taylor were in attendance. I spoke with Boseman and Tate Taylor in the burning heat of the late summer South. “Chadwick, thanks for coming down and braving this heat. How is it going for you?” I asked. “It’s going good!” Boseman said. “How are you?” “I feel good!” I laughed. Yes, I opened with a shameless reference to one of James Brown’s most famous hits. “Haha! Yeah, I feel good, too,” Boseman said, cool enough to play along. “The movie was incredible,” I said, “It was so good, it really caught me off guard. I don’t know what I was expecting, but it blew away my expectations.” “I’m glad it did,” he grinned. In person, Boseman has the strong stature of a leading man, but he also carries an artist’s sensitivity. “You were pitch perfect as James Brown. But before Get On Up, you gave a really amazing performance in 42, where you played another very famous man, Jackie Robinson,” I said. “Did you have any trepidation about stepping into some different, albeit very different, famous shoes with this role?” “Yeah, I didn’t want to do it again!” Boseman said. “And Tate had to talk me into it! It was definitely not what we were looking for. And then, it’s James Brown! It was an intimidating role because of the dancing and singing, the wigs and clothing. Literally everything about it was intimidating.” “I can’t even imagine,” I said, shaking my head. “James Brown was such a big personality in reality, it seems like it would be almost impossible to portray him in a way that didn’t seem too big, but still did him justice.” “What were the words that Tate used to convince you?” I asked, hoping for a peek backstage. “I can’t tell you!” Boseman said, laughing. “I can’t say that on camera!” “There’s a huge physical component to this role, and I’m not talking about the makeup,” I said. “James Brown was a tremendous dancer. Is that something you have in your background, or was it something 42 | September/October 2014

difficult you had to pick up for the role?” “Well, I’m not a wallflower,” Boseman said. “But it took a lot of work. I mean, we had to dance. I had to dance like five hours a day. We had an amazing choreographer named Aakomon Jones who basically drilled the vocabulary into me. And I really owe a lot of it to him and the basics he taught me.” “How are you dealing with this heat?!” I asked. It was extremely hot, even for the Deep South, and the sun was setting right on us. “Well, I’m originally from South Carolina so it was just as hot there as it is here,” said Boseman, still affable in the sweltering setting. “I’m familiar with the humidity.” “Standing out here in the humidity for thirty minutes is one thing, but I know you must have really had some hot days filming the movie in Natchez!” I laughed. I’ve worked on movies in the South. If you hate night shoots, come work on a movie in the summer South. You’ll be begging for nightfall at the end of your first day in the heat. “I think it’s great that we came back for the premiere,” Boseman said. “I think the spirit of Natchez is in the movie. It was a canvas for the movie and a backlot for the movie. Without the city being what it is, I don’t think we could have achieved the look of this movie with the budget that we had.” Natchez has a great look that works great for period films. But Boseman wasn’t just talking about the locations. “They welcomed us in. They fed us. They brought us into their homes.” Also on the red carpet was Get On Up director Tate Taylor. Prior to The Help, his breakout hit as a director, Taylor appeared in the critical hit Winter’s Bone, which introduced the intimidating dramatic chops of Jennifer Lawrence to the movie-going world. The dapper actor-turneddirector is from Mississippi, a truth his gentle accent quickly betrays. “Tate, how are you doing?” I asked. He greeted me with a smile. “Hey man.” “When did your relationship with James Brown begin?” I asked. “Oh, my whole life,” says Taylor. “We’re Southerners, of course. I can first remember my mom playing his albums when I was a kid.” “When you were putting this film together, you were coming off The Help which was both a critical and a financial success,” I said. “What made you look at Chadwick Boseman and think, “This guy could play James Brown!” “Well, I knew that beyond the spectacle and the dancing and the comedy, I needed a real actor,” said Taylor. “I knew that I was going to need someone to play James Brown at sixty-three, which is often the most parodied age of James Brown. I saw his work and his stillness and his economy and the way he worked. He works from inside out.

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Chadwick Boseman and Dan Aykroyd in Get On Up photo by D. Stevens

Chadwick Boseman and Craig Robinson in Get On Up photo by D. Stevens sceneent.com | 43

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Tate Taylor and Chadwick Boseman at the Natchez premiere

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He doesn’t hack at you. I just kind of had a feeling that he would be the guy.” “Chadwick told me he had some reservations about playing James Brown, another historical character, so soon after playing Jackie Robinson,” I said. “He said you had to talk him into it. What were the words that you used?” “He wasn’t going to do the film. His reservation was that nobody should try to do James Brown,” says Taylor. “I told him just take it one day at a time. And at any point, if one of us feels like we cannot do the work, then we’ll both quit. We had that. We had that trap door but we never pushed it.” “You’re from Mississippi. What’s it like coming home and shooting Natchez, a city that you know very well?” I asked. “Does it make things easier, or do you have a little trouble seeing the city with new eyes?”

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Where else in America do you have a whole neighborhood where the houses are from the 1930s? There’s no other place like it in America or the world.

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on filming in his home state of Mississippi

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Chadwick Boseman and Tate Taylor on the set of Get On Up photo by D. Stevens

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Chadwick Boseman as Jackie Robinson in 42 photo by D. Stevens

“With all due respect to my home state, I didn’t really come here because I’m from Mississippi,” says Taylor. “I came here because Natchez is one of the most historically protected towns in America. For Get On Up, I shot the decades from the ‘30s to the ‘90s. Where else in America do you have a whole neighborhood where the houses are from the 1930s? There’s no other place like it in America or the world.” “My crew and my cast absolutely adored the experience here,” says Taylor of filming in Natchez. “And I knew I wanted to bring the movie here.” “Even though it’s a period piece, the film doesn’t always portray the South in a positive light. Do you think locals will enjoy it?” “I hope so!” smiled Taylor. “We’ll see. The rest of the world has, so far. Let’s hope Natchez isn’t the only town to frown on it! But I think they’re gonna love it. You’re not gonna believe it, but in every single frame, there’s Natchez.” Get On Up currently boasts a 78% Certified Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and every bit of it moves. It’s the most fun I’ve had in theaters all year. It’s out now in theaters everywhere, so watch it any way you can. 46 | September/October 2014

They welcomed us in. They fed us. They brought us into their homes.

Chadwick Boseman

on filming in Natchez, Mississippi

MUSIC |

MEGHAN TRAINOR’S SONG OF THE SUMMER by Catie Ragusa

wirling in waves of pink and purple pastels, Meghan Trainor is on her way to pop stardom. The twenty-year-old recently released her first hit single which has steadily risen on Billboard’s Top 100. The ascent of “All About That Bass” is fueled by a bubblegum pink music video directed by Fatima Robinson, the renowned music video choreographer and producer, well known for her work with pop legends including Michael Jackson and Prince. The video currently boasts over twenty-five million views on Youtube. “She heard the song and was like, ‘I love it, let’s do it!’” Trainor said to Scene about Robinson’s enthusiasm. “Fatima came at me with the whole idea of pastel colors and the innocent girl who has booty poppin’ dance moves. And then she said, ‘I know this dancer on Vine.’” The dancer was Sione Maraschino, a worldwide sensation on the micro-video social media site Vine. Trainor was thrilled with the idea. Although she had no dance background at all. “I never even had a lesson,” she laughs. “We had two days of rehearsal that were five hours each, and then we shot it. You can’t visualize what it’s going to look like until you’re there. So on the set, after I was done, I cried for hours and I was just so blown away by how good it looked.” Prior to her single, Trainor made great career progress as a songwriter, writing songs for the popular country music band Rascal Flatts and multi-genre group Common Kings. “The A&R for Rascal Flatts sat down and played me their version, and I loved it,” says Trainor. It was her first time to hear a major music group sing a song she had written. “After the first words came out of his mouth, I was just crying. I loved it. And Common Kings, I love them so much! I love the lead singer’s vocals so much. I was honored to have him singing my new song. I got to prove to my publishers that I can do reggae and country, too! That I got this!” Trainor gets her raw musical talent from her father. “My father was always in a cover band situation, so he never really wrote songs,” says Trainor, whose songwriting skills are largely self-taught. “I always figured artists just wrote their own songs, so I started writing them. I think I learned about verses, chords, just by listening to my favorites songs. I started writing them down and I got better and better as I grew older.” She started writing and producing her own songs in her early teens and realized her dream was to become a pop star. Trainor got a publishing deal at only eighteen years old. She traveled to the Durango Songwriters Expo to learn as much as possible about the industry and how to improve her writing. “I was like, ‘Oh my gosh, I can write songs and get paid! This is great!’” she gushes. “My band would take me to see people who would critique my songs and tell me what I could improve on. I remember we went to this one place in

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Durango and I went home afterwards, and I said, ‘Alright, I’m gonna come back with a better album.’ And I went back, and that’s the year I got signed, because I took their criticism and their notes and I fixed my songs. I went back the next year, and I told them, ‘Look, I’m better!’” Trainor’s dedication to improving her own work has paid off. After a quiet debut, one of her songs is now a bona fide hit. Scene declared it the “Song of the Summer” when we first heard it back in June. Shortly after, Trainor got a call from The Today Show. Her new life in the spotlight keeps her on her toes. A call to board a plane can happen at any moment. “It happened all at one time and it’s been fun,” she says. “This is life now. I’ve gotta be ready with a bag packed all the time!” Now living in Nashville, the seat of American songwriting, the bright, blonde and bubbly Meghan Trainor is working on her debut album with Epic Records. And she wants you to remember that “every inch of you is perfect from the bottom to the top.” Watch her music video for “All About That Bass” on her YouTube channel, MeghanTrainorVEVO, or catch up with her on Twitter and Instagram @Meghan_Trainor. She’s as cool as you hope she is.

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It happened all at one time and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been fun!

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by Susan Ross

he Voodoo Experience returns to New Orleans City Park this October 31 through November 2. Kicking things off on Halloween, the fest will feature Foo Fighters, Outkast, Skrillex, Thirty Seconds to Mars, Slayer, Pretty Lights, Zedd, Fuel, Flux Pavilion, Ms. Lauryn Hill and more. For tickets and the festival lineup, visit the official website of the Voodoo Experience at www.thevoodooexperience.com.

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INGENUOUS

TERI WYBLE by Micah Haley

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he death of Lauren Bacall is a reminder of a time that once was. Plucked from obscurity as a movie usher and fashion model, Bacall was cast opposite Humphrey Bogart by director Howard Hawks. She was an overnight success. That was 1944. The myth of “being discovered” still exists in small towns across America, even though the film industry has changed radically. Rather than a select few making or breaking the fortunes of many, opportunity is spread across the industry. And it’s also spread across the country. Actress Teri Wyble has chosen to stay in her home state to create her career. And brick by brick, she’s building it. Raised in small town Arnaudville, Louisiana, Wyble travelled only thirty minutes to study performance. “I went to the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and I majored in performing arts and dance,” says Wyble. “I graduated with a BFA in dance.” Just as she finished school, the film industry in Louisiana began to flourish. Much like Bacall, Wyble made ends meet as a model and dancer, while slowly finding opportunities as an actress. In March of 2011, she was cast in the summer tentpole Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter opposite Devil’s Double star Dominic Cooper. “That was the part where I felt like, ‘Okay, I’m getting somewhere,’” recalls Wyble. “It was my first speaking part on a bigger film and I was so nervous. It was overwhelming but it was so exciting. I only worked on it for a couple of days, but I knew at that point I was on the right path. I thought, ‘This is awesome and it’s so challenging. But I love it and I want to keep doing this.” Vampire Hunter was helmed by acclaimed Russian director Timur Bekmambetov, who turned heads with his first American film, Wanted. “Timur was great,” says Wyble. “When I could understand what he was saying! His Russian accent was so endearing, but I’d have to ask him, ‘Can you repeat that five more times?’ He’s very visual, and so am I, so we really connected with that. Timur speaks in pictures.” After earning international accolades for his portrayal of Uday Hussein’s double in The Devil’s Double, Dominic Cooper was cast in Captain America as Iron Man’s father, Howard Stark. In Vampire Hunter, he played the vampire Henry Sturges. “It was great working with him,” says Wyble, who played Sturges’ human wife. “What can I say? Dominic’s so dreamy. He’s just a charmer and very genuine. And as an actor, he’s an incredible talent.” Wyble also landed a role in this fall’s inspirational football drama When The Game Stands Tall. “My on-screen parents are Jim Caviezel and Laura Dern. I play Jenny, their daughter,” says Wyble. 52 | September/October 2014

“I don’t know how you can get better movie parents than that.” As Jenny, Wyble visits Jim Caviezel’s character in the hospital. “I tried not to remind myself all of the stuff that he’s done,” she laughs. “I try not to look people up before I work with them because I get really intimidated. But he stayed in the moment with me. I didn’t bother him much and focused on the work. But towards the end of the day, whenever the cameras weren’t on him, he was giving me winks and cracking jokes. He was so very sweet and very fatherly.” Earlier this year, Wyble was cast in one of the most popular shows on television, which has filmed almost entirely in Georgia. “I was a big fan of the show since the first season. It’s just so easy to watch. It hooks you,” she says. “It just grabs you.” The actress keeps mum about spoilers. “I don’t know the future of my character. The show is pretty secretive,” says Wyble. “I don’t usually get full scripts. I don’t know much about my character until they tell me. I’m not even sure if my character is a good guy or a bad guy yet.” With the film industries in both Georgia and Louisiana thriving, actors in each state often audition for projects in the other state. “At the end of the day, projects get whatever actor they want, depending on the budget,” says Wyble of how her proximity to Georgia has helped her career. “But I do feel like I have a slight advantage simply because I’m a little bit closer than actors in Los Angeles. And if I really like the project, perhaps I can work as a regional hire.” Back at home, Wyble also recently landed a nice role in the high profile actioner Terminator: Genisys. The film continues the story of John Connor, his mother Sarah, and an army of nearly unstoppable killing machines called Terminators. The new film is from producer David Ellison. Directing is Alan Taylor, who helmed some of the best episodes of Game of Thrones before making the leap to big budget features with Thor: The Dark World. “I love Alan. He was wonderful and he really gave me a lot of freedom on set,” says Wyble. “He maintained control but he still seemed so laid back. So easy to get along with and it was just such a great set to be on. Best set I’ve ever been on.” “Alan was actually a really trendy dresser,” Wybles laughs. “He was lookin’ cute. You would think a director would just wear a baseball hat and tennis shoes. Not Alan. He had his little pants cuffed up.” Although Terminator is one of the biggest roles of her career, Wyble says the work wasn’t easy. “I started on second unit, which I’m thankful for because it was really a punch in the gut,” she says. “That made me think, ‘Ok, this is what you’ve gotten yourself into.’ And I mean that

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FASHION | in a good way. The second unit stuff was actually pretty badass.” The rest of the shoot was just as challenging. “There were a lot of night shoots on Terminator. Night shoots are tough for me but they’re tough for everybody,” says Wyble. “If it’s 4am, no matter how much sleep I’ve gotten, it’s still 4am. And I should be in bed. “It was very physically strenuous. I wish I would’ve went to the gym a little bit more before shooting began. I didn’t know how much ‘on-the-field’ work I would be doing, and I was wearing tons of armor. I hear that soldiers are trained to move in all of this gear. You have so much on that you don’t have much mobility. So that took some getting used to. But just to be a part of a show of this caliber was absolutely amazing. The work was often tiring, but at the same time, it was such an opportunity for growth as an actor.” Look for Teri Wyble on television this October, and when Alan Taylor’s Terminator: Genisys hits theaters next summer.

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Aaron Williamson

Aaron Williamson is a health advisor and fitness trainer to the film industry. He has helped craft the physical transformations of Jamie Foxx in Django Unchained, Zac Efron in Neighbors and Josh Brolin in Oldboy. He recently finished molding Game of Thrones star Emilia Clarke into legendary action heroine Sarah Connor for Terminator: Genisys.

Let’s talk about the beginnings of your methodology as a trainer. Where did you first start thinking about the best way to approach transforming someone’s physique? I never really had any intention of getting into personal training. Initially, my whole fitness journey began with wanting to be a professional body builder. In the Marine Corps, I began studying human anatomy specific to training, as well as nutrition and supplementation. But it wasn’t until years later that I was able to really showcase my approach to fitness, after destiny kind of brought me to New Orleans and I found myself in the middle of the film industry. My approach stems from my understanding of the human body and my own personal training over the years, as I tried to work around the injuries I incurred in the Marine Corps, and then later, getting on stage as a body builder. And now, also adapting what I’ve learned to the needs of an actor who typically doesn’t like to do traditional free weight training but instead more functional training. Combine all that together and you have my approach, which I think the big screen has shown to be extremely effective. You spent some time in Okinawa. How did that stay influence your current career path? Anyone who’s been in the military knows this: when you go overseas to a place like Okinawa, you typically become a “PT stud” – a fitness badass who takes training seriously - or an alcoholic. It’s usually one of those two. There’s really not much to do. We get up early in the morning, do our field training, do our normal platoon or company PT (physical training). And then, during any off time, it’s not like there’s many places you can go in Okinawa, because you’re somewhat confined to the base. The gym for me really became my sanctuary. No matter how tired I was, I looked forward to it every day. In the fitness world, we call it “getting bit by the bug.” It’s when you really fall in love with and become passionate about fitness. There’s a little bit of an addiction to it. You feel good, you get those endorphins going and you see results. That’s where it all started for me, back in 1998 at Camp Schwab, Okinawa, Japan. I was there for a little over six months. I came back just a completely different person and that was due to fitness. Now you’re in New Orleans and you are regularly working with actors that are working on movies here. You’re also traveling and consulting with people and actors who are working on movies around the world. When an actor first comes to you, what’s the first discussion you have with them? What do you ask them, and then typically what are they asking you?

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First off, I ask what their character needs to look like for the film. Nine times out of ten, that’s usually why they’re training: they have to look a certain way. Once we figure out what their character needs to look like, and what their movement is throughout the film, then we address what their physical limitations are. One thing I would have never guessed is that a lot of actors have preexisting injuries of some sort. Or, they never completely healed because they are going from film to film without a break. They don’t allow themselves enough time to recover completely. So, we have to figure out what we can and cannot do. Then, we address nutrition, which is the key piece of getting them the way they need to look. Those are the three topics that we spend the most time on. And what’s the next step? Do you put them through a series of tests to see what they’re capable of?

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The first few days are an assessment in the gym. I’ll take them through a series of different exercises with free weights and doing functional plyometric stuff just to gauge their level of fitness. I need to see where they’re at endurance wise and strength wise to figure out the right exercises to incorporate in. I have to not only prevent them from becoming even more injured, but to actually strengthen where they are weak because of the injury. Have you struggled with any actors that are just whiners and lacked dedication to succeed? I’m fortunate in that most of the people who come to me are serious about training. I think that’s why I’ve kind of fallen into the action genre. Because of my intensity and passion in the gym, I’d say that’s what I’ve become known for. You’re going to come in and train with me and you’re going to get results. And you’re going to work your butt off. Surely there are some days where they’re tired from what they were doing on set the night before or they just don’t feel like working out. How do you rally behind them and get them moving? That’s probably the toughest part of what I do. The schedules that actors run, especially for these big budget films, is crazy. They’re working five or six days a week and maybe sixteen hours a day. That doesn’t give a lot of time for sleep. Typically, the last thing anyone wants to do is wake up two hours before you have to be at work to train. Or, go through a long day and then come into training. At either end of it, it’s going to be hard: you’re going to feel pain and you’re going to be tired. My approach is getting a good warm-up and talking to them about what we’re going to do. I try to motivate them about what I’m seeing with their results and keep them

going in the right direction. Sometimes they come in and they are beyond taxed, physically and mentally. Sometimes my professional opinion is, “Maybe we just need to take today off.” Or do some cardio. I have to assess where they’re at. And I can pretty much tell if they’re being weak or they’re truly that tired. You mentioned that nutrition is a big part of it. How do you identify what their nutritional needs are? Say, for someone doing an action film and they need to put some muscles on their shoulders and on their arms. What is the nutrition advice that you are giving them? For putting on size, it’s a lot different from leaning out. When putting on size, everyone always under eats or eats the wrong food. That’s the hardest thing for a lot of the guys who are trying to put mass on. You’ve got to eat and you need good, clean food that keeps your blood sugar in check and keeps everything in line with being able to build quality muscle. Being on set and having crafty around is hard. It’s hard to stay away from the sugars and salts and those types of things that will just make you naturally hold that layer of water and make you look a little bit blurry. The toughest part about the nutrition is just trying to get them in a place where they won’t give in to alcohol and sweets. I also like to sit down with them and talk about what they normally do. What is their lifestyle? What is their concept of eating healthy? What is their concept of good foods? That gives me an idea of how to break them in to the new nutrition program. For more health and fitness tips, read Health Scene online at health.sceneent.com and visit Aaron’s personal website at aaronwilliamson.net.

FITNESS MYTHS: Busted “You can just do more abdominal exercises to get cut.” This is one of those myths that drive me crazy. I hear it all the time. Clients come in who think, “Are we done working out? Can we do abs now?” The truth is that you can’t crunch your way to a six-pack. The key to a great set of abs is a solid nutrition program, coupled with enough cardio to support fat loss. That doesn’t mean that you have to get on a treadmill and run for an hour every day, ten days a week. There are different types of cardio you can do. Instead of just the traditional treadmill, elliptical or stairs, you can shorten your cardio duration down by doing high intensity interval training sessions, which could be just fifteen to twenty minutes. Your abs are just like every other muscle in the body. They need recovery time. If you don’t let them recover, you wont be able to train them like you need to, therefore you won’t get results. Typically, beneath the layer of water and body fat that everyone has, there’s a six-pack. It’s already there, you just have to uncover it and you can only uncover it by leaning out. But the bottom line is that you must have a solid nutrition program and do enough cardio to support the fat loss. I tell all my clients this.

Disclaimer: The information contained herein is intended to provide general information and does not constitute medical advice. The content is not guaranteed to be correct, complete or up-to-date. This information is not intended to create a client relationship between you and Aaron Williamson, Scene Magazine, or any associated companies, and you should not act or rely on any information in this publication without seeking the advice of medical doctor. In reading this article, please note that the information provided is not a substitute for consulting with an experienced medical professional and receiving counsel based on the facts and circumstances of a particular transaction. Many of the principles mentioned are subject to exceptions and qualifications, which may not be noted. Please consult with your doctor before beginning any health and exercise program.

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I am a photographer and someone has taken images off of my website and is using them in their advertising without my permission. What recourse do I have against them? It would appear that you have a copyright infringement claim for your copyrighted photographs. Copyright is a form of legal protection provided to the authors of original works of authorship, including literary, dramatic, musical, artistic and certain other intellectual works. The key component of copyright protection is that the work is an “original work of authorship.” Copyright protection gives the author the exclusive right to reproduce the work, prepare derivative works based upon the original work, distribute copies of the work to the public by sale or other transfer of ownership, perform the work publicly, display the work publicly, or perform the work publicly by digital audio transmission. Furthermore,

copyright protection automatically subsists from the moment of creation of an original work: there is no requirement or process for your work to be protected once you have created it. Though, it is often ideal to register it with the U.S. Copyright Office. In this instance, the alleged infringement would be based off of an authorized display of your work publicly via the advertisement containing the work. There are many potential remedies available to either stop the alleged infringing use or come to an agreement with the other party regarding the use of your work. The first step would be to consult with an experience intellectual property attorney familiar with copyright law and enforcement. Good luck.

About ten years ago I had a logo designed for my entertainment company and have been using it ever since. Recently, I have noticed another company providing similar services to ours has opened in the area and they are using a name and logo almost identical to ours. What can I do? Well, what we are talking about here is a trademark infringement claim. Trademarks are generally defined as a symbol, word or group of words used to represent a company or its goods or services. Simply put, a trademark most often operates as a source identifier. Meaning, that when you see a certain name or logo associated with a particular product or service that you, as the consumer, have some type of expectation of quality or other attributes that you associate with the product or service, and, more importantly, its source. The value of a trademark is based heavily on the goodwill that a company has built up surrounding its goods or services. Trademarks are established by use, meaning you cannot actually obtain trademark protection without first using it in commerce. While it is often desirable to register your trademarks federally, thus getting protection across the entire United States (assuming you have a valid and protectable trademark), it is not necessary

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ometimes the simplest questions are the most difficult to answer. “Where are you from?” I first came from Maryland to New Orleans for the pilot of HBO’s Treme in January of 2009. Since then, I admit having had a hard time answering that question. I’ve also witnessed the unsure look on my daughter’s face when asked the same question, usually followed by a look to me and a “Where are we from, Daddy?” Five years later, the question is easily answered. We have abandoned ties in Maryland and committed to residency in New Orleans. Yes, we are officially New Orleanians. Louisiana license plates and all! As a producer and unit production manager in today’s television and film industry, you have to be prepared to pack a bag to “follow the state tax incentives.” It’s no secret that the incentive states with tax credits are driving the film industry. Studios used to ask about crew and locations. Then, for years they would ask about the stability and available funds for the state’s incentive program. So many states now have solid incentive programs that the old question (“How is the crew?”) is becoming relevant again. Louisiana, Georgia, North Carolina, New Mexico, New York, Illinois and more all have competitive programs. With those options, studios can again make decisions on what location makes sense for story and which state has a deeper local crew base, not only at the third level, but in supervisory and department head positions, too. As a family, we’ve also been able to ask ourselves another question. “Where does it make sense for us to live?” And the answer is not solely based on which state has the best film rebate program. The New Orleans film community has much more to offer than tax credits. I landed in New Orleans for Treme, a show about New Orleans that would have been shot here anyway. It stayed on the air for four years, partly with help from the incentives making it affordable. But that success was also largely due to the amazing crew that made Treme their life for four seasons. The crew here has become increasingly more experienced and knowledgeable every year and the available in-state resources also continue to improve. The state-of-the-art facility at Second Line Stages has been attracting major studio projects since its opening. Susan Brennan and Trey Burvant fully understand the growing film landscape and the needs of productions large and small. They have been a significant contributor to the success of the New Orleans film industry.

Joe Incaprera at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival

THE WORK

The crew on Treme was completely invested in the project and stayed committed, even with the constant lure of bigger budget features. There was a true loyalty to the show and a sense of family that is rare in this business but is increasingly evident in today’s New Orleans film crews. When I started American Horror Story: Coven in the Spring 2013, a lot of the Treme crew wasn’t available. 62 | September/October 2014

New Orleans legend Dr. John with the cast of Treme

| FILM I was worried about the crew that I could get to meet the challenges of a complex FX horror series. That worry didn’t last long as we began to put together the pieces for American Horror Story’s third season. Everyone we hired was professional and exhibited an incredible work ethic. Both Season Four of Treme and American Horror Story: Coven are nominated for Outstanding Mini-Series in this year’s Primetime Emmy awards. Those nominations are a complete reflection of what the New Orleans film community has to offer and the quality crews that continue to contribute to the highest achievements in television and film being produced anywhere in the country. The four years I spent on Treme were my family’s introduction to New Orleans. My wife Catharine and our ten-year-old daughter Chloe first came for a visit during Mardi Gras back in 2010. We couldn’t even get to my apartment from the airport without getting held up by a parade. Tucks was rolling down St. Charles, so we had no choice but to abandon efforts to reach the apartment and wait for the parade to pass. Amazingly, I found a parking spot and walked the girls over for their first taste of Carnival! They instantly fell in love with New Orleans. During those first few years, way too many 6am Saturday flights to Maryland, and buckets of tears before boarding the Sunday evening flight back to Nola, were enough for us to take the first step towards uprooting our life.

Chloe Incaprera with Emma Roberts on the set of American Horror Story

FAMILY ADVENTURE TIME

In 2011 for Season Three of Treme, we enrolled Chloe in school in New Orleans for the second grade, and Catharine ran her boutique business in Annapolis from New Orleans, which was no easy feat! Catharine and Chloe had a great year full of all things Nola including beignets, festivals, visits to the zoo and aquarium, walks down Magazine Street and Pizza Delicious missions to name a few. But we didn’t expect a fourth season of Treme. So we headed back to Maryland in 2012. When HBO decided to move forward with a shortened fourth season of Treme, we resigned ourselves to suffering through a few more months of family separation. The question of where the work would take us next still hung in the air, unanswered. But it was becoming increasingly clear to me that trying to stay rooted in Maryland made no sense. Maryland’s incentive program, with its limited funding, only supports a few projects a year at best. And both Catharine and Chloe had become very attached to life in New Orleans. In January 2013, my wife closed her boutique in Annapolis and took a job as costume supervisor on Anchorman 2 in Atlanta. Chloe came back to New Orleans to finish third grade. Then came the phone call in February 2013 from a 20th Century Fox exec. He was checking my availability for the upcoming season of American Horror Story. It convinced us that the future was where we’d been for the past four years: New Orleans. Today, we are fully entrenched in the city we now call home. We are renting a nice house Uptown near the Park and plan to buy a house in New Orleans next spring. Catharine has joined Local 478 and is currently working on The Whole Truth as the assistant costume designer. She is also a member of the Mardi Gras Krewe Nix! Chloe is returning to Isidore Newman School for the fifth grade in August. She sings for the New Orleans Children’s Choir and the Louisiana State Choir. Chloe also plays girls soccer in the Carrolton Booster League. I have joined the board of directors for the New Orleans Video Access Center (NOVAC), an organization committed to cultivating a sustainable film community in New Orleans and I am currently working with NOVAC’s executive director Darcy McKinnon and Carroll Morton from the New Orleans Office of Film & Video to create an internship program for all productions that come to New Orleans.

Catharine Incaprera on set in New Orleans with Sir Anthony Hopkins

Chloe Incaprera proudly displays her Mardi Gras spoils

Five years of back and forth between Annapolis, Maryland and New Orleans, Louisiana taught my family and I to “know what it means to miss New Orleans.” Those days of missing New Orleans are gone. And now we are here to stay! sceneent.com | 63

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irst, find a hotel. Second, set up the production office. Then, find a place to hang out after a day that’s at least twelve hours long. While economic impact studies can track a film’s economic impact to hotels and office space for rent, they will almost always miss the money film professionals spend out of their own pockets. Two years ago, film crews in Baton Rouge adopted the quiet, relaxed corners of The Cove, a watering hole inspired by the pirate life, as their daily port of call. The saloon-ish spot provides plenty of private tables and booths to stow away if you’re looking to avoid attention. “The first major group was the crew working on Pitch Perfect with Anna Kendrick. But, we had people from Battleship and a few other shows before that,” says Tom Ange of The Cove Bar. “The daily hangout thing started about two years ago, though. We like to keep the film industry happy and we’re willing to accommodate them with any specials they may receive elsewhere. We already give some of the day-to-day regulars twenty percent off their tabs.” In addition to quiet corners, The Cove is stocked like the belly of the Hispaniola. It boasts three thousand offerings and three bars, including a keg room with seventy-five craft beers, a long bar with five hundred scotches, three hundred bourbons and whiskies, along with a cocktail

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eteran California-based insurance company Insurance West continues to grow its roster of clients by reaching out across the country. “We’re expanding and growing in Georgia and Louisiana, North Carolina, Illinois and other states,” says Ken Tucker of Insurance West. “Most of my new business right now is Atlanta and New Orleans. Atlanta just started happening. I have over I think nine hundred clients right now. I write almost an account a day.” Insurance West’s current clients include both established Los Angeles-based companies like Hollywood Rentals, who also has a physical office in Baton Rouge, and startup companies in incentive states, like Hollywood Trucks, who has recently added an office in Atlanta, Georgia to their offices in Baton Rouge and New Orleans. As the company expands, Tucker and the team at Insurance West are expanding the services they offer clients. “In November, we added an ‘in-house’ attorney,” says Tucker of their new offerings. “Free of charge, our clients, who use our rental contract when they rent their equipment to production companies, get free legal service in regards to that contract. They can go directly to our attorney and deal with him. He takes care of it the same day for them. He negotiates with the studios. I probably get more compliments on that service than on anything else we provide.” For clients of Insurance West, the inclusion of legal work saves both time and money. In an industry as old as insurance, it’s a true innovation. “You can tell people about it but until they really use it, they don’t realize the value,” says Tucker of the typical client’s reaction after using the service for the first time. “Our attorney, Eugene West, calls the studio’s attorney and they talk it out. They figure out what’s best for both parties and the client isn’t directly involved. Then, they get the contract, both parties sign it, they’re done.” A company that has been around for thirty years, Insurance West has a big reputation and it precedes them. “Everyone knows that we’re the eight-hundred-pound gorilla in the business,” says Tucker. “We insure a majority of the equipment rental house business, but there are still plenty out there, especially in Louisiana, who may not know of us.” For more information on the services that entertainment industry specialists Insurance West offers, visit their official website at www.insurancewest.com.

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hen we spoke last year with Jennifer Holmes, the general manager of the Best Western Plus Richmond Inn & Suites in Baton Rouge, her property had housed over fourteen film projects. “We have added three additional housing projects to our roster thus far in 2014,” says Holmes. The projects hosted at the hotel on Energy Drive this year include the soon-to-be-released remake of Left Behind, which stars Nicolas Cage, and a recently wrapped summer tentpole from Twentieth Century Fox. Some of the 2013 productions included the Emmy-nominated miniseries Bonnie & Clyde and The Maze Runner. “It has been a pleasure working with the staff at the Best Western Plus Richmond Suites Hotel, who understand the needs and challenges of housing a film crew,” says Grant Grabowski, the film production coordinator for Fox Louisiana Productions who housed both cast and crew members at Holmes’ property. “They have been most accommodating of our ‘aroundthe-clock’ schedule of bookings, changes and, sometimes, quite unusual requests. The crew especially enjoyed the full kitchens in the rooms, a huge plus for anyone staying at a hotel for many months. I’ve enjoyed a positive working experience with the hotel on two separate films and would certainly call on them again for crew lodging needs on a future project!” After working closely with the film industry since 2008, the staff at Best Western Plus Richmond Inn & Suites has ample experience accommodating the needs of guests who are working on a film or television project, from last minute changes to special requests. The Best Western Plus also has several advantages over other properties, which sometimes offer studio rooms with a mini-sink and a microwave and call it a “suite.” Although fine for very short stays, the film industry requires longer-term accommodations. The Best Western Plus includes seventy extended stay suites spread throughout their five guest buildings, which are laid out similar to an apartment complex. These are not your run-of-the-mill “extended-stay suites,” either. Coming in at circa five-hundred and thirty feet, these suites have a separate bedroom with one king or two queensized beds, a separate living room and a true kitchen fully stocked with cookware, flatware, cooking utensils, a four person place setting, full size refrigerator, microwave, toaster, stove top oven, dishwasher, large sink with garbage disposal and more. Some suites even have fireplaces, while others offer a private balcony or patio that overlooks the courtyard and pool area. The building plan also offers plenty of privacy, and with ample parking surrounding the entire property, guests are able to go directly to their rooms and completely avoid the lobby area and the gatehouse. It’s the kind of accessibility and privacy that allows productions to house recognizable actors at the Best Western Plus. “I want our long-term guests to feel as at home as I do,” says Holmes. “That’s why we offer a complimentary Southern Style hot breakfast buffet, and the same entertainment and productivity options you would expect at home and the office. That includes 200mbps high speed wireless internet, full cable television including forty HD channels and a business center.

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There are laundry facilities in each building, daily dry cleaning services, pet friendly rooms and walking areas, as well as a thousand square foot meeting space and a fourteen person board room that’s available for rental.” “Of course, we are also able to offer all the perks that you’d expect from a hotel, plus a few more,” Holmes continues. “That includes a fitness center that’s open twenty-four hours, an outdoor pool and hot tub, SportCourt® with basketball, volleyball, and tennis equipment, nightly hors d’oeuvres served in the Lobby Lounge, self-parking with space available for large trucks or trailers carrying production equipment, a twenty-four hour convenience store, BBQ pit rentals and a full service bar in the lobby lounge.” “We’ve enjoyed catering to the film industry,” says Holmes. “We look forward to housing many more productions in the future.” To book your production or to have a property tour, please contact Jennifer Holmes at jennifer.holmes@smchotels. com, or Wilks Holmes at wilks.holmes@smchotels.com, or visit bestwestern.com/plusrichmondinnandsuites and find them on Facebook at facebook.com/plusrichmondinnandsuites.com.

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ew Orleans-based Limousine Livery continues to redefine luxury car service. Each year the company invests eighty hours of training in each employee. “Our chauffeurs are usually the only person in the company to interact directly with our clients,” says general manager Brian Englehart. “They represent Limousine Livery to the vast majority of our clientele. Our training investment is really being made on behalf of our client.” The additional training also ensures a great experience. “We stress to our team that we are in the experience business. Each ride must be an exceptional experience for our clients,” says Englehart. “Good and great are not our standard. Our standard is perfect.” Limo Livery also offers the only Tesla available in Louisiana. “It has a 14” touch screen display/control panel, as well as on-board wifi,” says Englhart. “It reminds me of an iPhone with wheels. Everything on the vehicle is controlled through the touch screen or a unique heads up dash system. It rides smooth but it’s sports car-agile. It’s just a really cool car!” With a large fleet of limousines, towncars and people movers, Limo Livery is unique in that it is an eco-conscious transportation company. “Many of our visitors are extremely eco-conscious. Limousine Livery is committed to our environment and we understand the impact we have as a company with a fifty-seven vehicle fleet,” says Englehart of the company’s decision to purchase the premier electric vehicle. “We simply try to offset that impact by utilizing clean burning propane in 40% of our fleet and embracing EV technology as it becomes available. Our environmental sensitivity gives us a significant advantage over our competitors.” For more information on Limo Livery’s unique services, visit www.limolivery.com. Matthew McConaughey | Stephen Moyer | Mary J. Blige | Kellan Lutz Alexander Skarsgard | Bruce Willis | Kristen Stewart | Taylor Swift Peter Facinelli | Jason London | Justin Chatwin | Ashley Greene | Kim Coates Sasha Masakowski | Shiloh Fernandez | Jason Mewes | Christian Slater Kristy Swanson | Danny Trejo | Grace Park | Angela Sarafyan | Clarke Peters Randy Newman | William Friedkin | Mark Wahlberg | Michelle Rodriguez Jackson Rathbone | Mia Borders | Gary Sinise | Florence + The Machine Sterling Knight | Nicolas Cage | Joel Schumacher | Anthony Mackie | Mignon Faget Melora Hardin | Jewel Staite | Jerry Ferrara | Philip Glass | Trombone Shorty Brooke Waggoner | The Duplass Brothers | Aaron Paul | DJ Qualls | Alan Dale in plain sight’s

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OLA Fashion Week founder and Scene contributor Andi Eaton has just finished a new book. Entitled New Orleans Style, the fashion tome from the New Orleansbased fashion writer and designer will hit bookstores this October. “The book focuses on both historic style - jazz-era legends, Carnival couture and traditional southern dressing, for example - all the way through contemporary styles and the variations in fashions seen in the neighborhoods photo by Natalie Mancuso today,” says Eaton. “There’s a section devoted to the retailers that set an early precedent in establishing New Orleans as a fashion destination. And there’s also interviews with current designers and retailers contributing to the fashion community today.” The book is scheduled for a mid-October release and will be available at regional independent bookstores and boutiques, Barnes and Nobles, Amazon and via The History Press online. Follow Andi Eaton online at www.ouiwegirl.com.

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TV Series – FX Network Starring: Jessica Lange, Evan Peters, Frances Conroy, Sarah Paulson, Denis O’Hare, Lily Rabe, Emma Roberts, Kathy Bates, Taissa Farmiga, Gabourey Sidibe, Angela Bassett, Michael Chiklis Resumes: ahs.office@tvbyfox.com Phone: 504.224.2227 - Fax: 504.224.2291 Status: Shooting now through December 2014 UPM: Bob Williams Location: New Orleans The hit FX horror show American Horror Story is returning to New Orleans to film its fourth season.

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Feature – Walt Disney Pictures Starring: Johnny Depp, Keith Richards, Geoffrey Rush (Rumored: Christoph Waltz, Rebecca Hall) Director: Joachim Ronning & Espen Sandberg Resumes: fifthmaterprods@gmail.com Status: October 2014 LP: Barry Waldman PM: Trevor Waterson Location: Louisiana, Los Angeles, Hawaii, United Kingdom

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THE UNSCENE THE COMING FIGHT There will be a fight. The assault will come from the right. Or the left. Or both. All well meaning. Politics is depicted as a delicate dance of desire, opportunity and nuance. In reality, it’s a bloodsport filled with blunt objects and even blunter minds. Some battles can’t be avoided. And some factions will always wield the biggest, bluntest weapons. The key for the fighter is to pick your battles carefully and choose your weapons wisely. And the smart fighter knows that a sharp weapon can win. When the film incentive program ends up on the political chopping block next spring, the Louisiana film industry needs to come equipped with a weapon that’s sharp. An independent study that answers some of the most important questions about how the film tax credits affect the local economy. Concede in advance that there are legitimate questions to be asked. They’ve been asked before and they’ll be asked again. But this time, go to war with the answers. The UnScene Writer Submit tips to unscene@sceneent.com. Anonymity guaranteed.

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