Month: January 2010

  • On NCIS: LOS ANGELES tonight/Hatchet 2 update/Twitter

    Tonight my small part on NCIS: Los Angeles will air on CBS at 9pm.

    This month completes my nice little run that all began in the beginning of last December (see last entry).

    Principal photography on “HATCHET 2” has been completed and will be out in limited release and then on DVD in October. 

    It was a really fun shoot and I think the sequel will be akin to “Terminator 2” – a stronger companion to the first film that will delve deeper into the overall story arc.  I discuss more about the movie in this interview.

    It can now be revealed that in H2, I come back as my character’s (from H1) less-incompetent & showy, twin brother – JUSTIN (who the director named after “BLT” director Justin Lin in honor of hearing tons of   inspirational stories about starting out as a director from “BLT” crew members and me over the years).

    H2 takes place the very next day after H1 ends.  Where Justin discovers his brother (Shawn) never came back after giving a Haunted Swamp Boat Tour the previous night and goes off in search of him.

    However to help with the suspension of disbelief, I sport a new look for this movie.  Gone is the spiky hair and baby smooth face. 

    And as you can see from my svelte legs, Justin wears the trendy “skinny jeans” (that my character on NCIS: LA also wears) – which were a bitch to pull on and off. 

    At the end of the day, I felt like Peter Parker trying to remove his black symbiote suit (*CGR #1 – Comic Geek Reference).  I thought several times to myself, “Should go into a ringing bell tower to get these damn pants off?” (*CGR #2).
       
    As with any horror movie, your death scene and how you exit the film is what it’s all about — and with mine, all I can say is that it gets messy

    So much so that after coming home from shooting my big kill last Wednesday,  I noticed that my contact lenses were permanently stained red from all the fake blood (looking very much like the X-Men’s Scott Summers/Cyclops’ Ruby Quartz contact lenses – CGR #3)

    And for the sake of good taste, I won’t post any pictures of what my underwear wound up looking like.

    One of the highlights was working again with my stunt double, Steven Ho (he stunted for me on H1)

    Steven has recently been a staple of “The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien” — doing segments where he basically kicks Conan’s butt. 

    But with the whole late night shakeup and NBC maintaining ownership of Conan properties like: In the Year 3000 and Triumph the Insult Comic Dog – one of the first things I asked Steven was, “Does NBC get to keep you?!?” 

    But he assured me that since he was a guest, we’ll hopefully see more Steven Ho afflicted injuries to Conan in the near future.  He is actually auctioning the ‘Asian Baby’ used in the sketches for charity here.

    Also I’ve noticed the Twitter revolution just won’t go away. 

    Sigh. 

    First Xanga.  Then Myspace.  Then Facebook.  And now Twitter.  And I’m the type of person that won’t abandon anything — so I keep updating ALL these things.  I’ve become a social network hoarder.  So if you wanna ‘follow’ me as I figure out this ‘tweeting’ business, here I am www.twitter.com/parryshen or as I think I’m supposed to write: @parryshen (I think I did that right, right?)

    Then finally this Saturday, I will pop into one of my favorite colleges to run a few workshops for The University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana’s APAC – Seen and Heard Conference.  So sign up if you’re nearby and say “Hi”!