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<\/a>Laura Ann Tull takes her hair down after a day on the set of Desperate Housewives. <\/p><\/div>\n
I finally took down my hair.\u00a0 I could not sleep with all the bobby pins in it.\u00a0 Loved the look though.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I remember talking to a SAG regular I knew on the phone about what happened and well he told me some stuff I was not surprised to hear about the woman I was sitting with.\u00a0 We had a mutual friend years before who was really kind of mean.\u00a0 There is other personal stuff that is her business but I can’t stand hypocrites.\u00a0 Don’t preach if you don’t practice what you preach.<\/p>\n
03\/13\/08 Office Staff Criminal Minds 8 hours<\/p>\n
03\/18\/08 Audience The Soloist 15.9 hours.\u00a0 I think this was a big concert scene.\u00a0 I got a splinter in my finger and this girl was there who I had just found out had been dating this crew person\u00a0 the one who would tell me in two years they would forget what I did, but for the life of me, I don’t know what I did.<\/p>\n
03\/19\/08 Courtroom BG A promo for a lawyer show.\u00a0 I thought this was funny.\u00a0 However everyone knew, or I thought they did, that I would never practice.\u00a0 I hated it.\u00a0 I love acting.\u00a0<\/p>\n
03\/25\/08 Hotel Bar Patron Eleventh Hour 11.4\u00a0 They valet took our cars.\u00a0 And they removed my sticker from my window for my temp license plate.\u00a0 I was getting new license plates and they were in the mail.\u00a0 This was cool but the lead kind of stared me down on set.\u00a0 I liked the show though.\u00a0 Good concept.\u00a0 this was the pilot.<\/p>\n
03\/26\/08 Ancient Greece BG Bedtimes Stories Fitting 2 hours.\u00a0 I was fit to play two different roles in this and was supposed to work like 2 plus weeks on it.\u00a0 The wardrobe people were really cool with me\u00a0and I was looking forward to doing some period work.\u00a0 Cool costumes too.\u00a0 I was going to be a Greek and then some space age girl.\u00a0 I loved the space age costume.\u00a0 (However the second week did not happen- thank you Eli Stone and Courtney Lovell and Arnie Starr and well certain background people who kept making comments that inferred to me they were scientologists and they acted like I was someone they wanted to spit at- more to follow.)<\/p>\n
03\/27\/08 Dresser CSI NY 8.5 hours.<\/p>\n
03\/28\/08 Detective \u00a0Moonlight.\u00a0 9 hours.\u00a0 This was usually a night call.\u00a0 I knew crew from other shows and they were cool though this stand in from Eli Stone was there who told me he was from Baltimore, though he stopped working it because he told me the food was making him sick.\u00a0 I could never tell if he was cool or not.<\/p>\n
03\/31\/08 Grey’s Anatomy 12.5 hours\u00a0 As usual a nurse.\u00a0 I was having issues with a stand in. I was non-union and she was union and she kept reporting me to PAs for things I did not do.\u00a0 I would ask to go to crafty- go and she would tell the PAs I went to crafty when I was not supposed to- that kind of thing.\u00a0 It was crappy. I worked the show before she did, but I was non-union and she was in with the principals and wanted me off and all because her ex had made a pass at me before deciding to go out with her.\u00a0 We never slept together and I told him i did not want to date him if we were going to work together.\u00a0 He left me thinking we might go out after Carnivale but then I found out he was dating her and told him off.\u00a0 I did not bring personal stuff to set, but she was Union and therefore even if she did, well I felt like I had no defense and no protection from her actions.\u00a0 I still worked this show after this date, but things got really bad and also keep in mind a crew person from ticket to ride showed up working this show and a guy from Carnivale who I think is shady was there the day I was tripped and this is an ABC show.\u00a0 So was Desperate Housewives and Eli Stone.\u00a0 Something did not add up and I ended up losing everything I fought and worked so hard for, or I felt like I did and was in my opinion brutalized by Grey’s Anatomy in August as you will see.\u00a0 And in the end i felt like it was all for petty high school stuff. I worked with the guy from Carnivale all the time.\u00a0 As long as he understood we were just friends and co-workers I was fine with him.\u00a0 His name was Johnny by the way which I think led to some major understandings on Eli Stone.\u00a0 I would never refer to Johnny lee Miller as Johnny because of that.\u00a0 (Well Until he promised to help me shoot a PSA for stand up to cancer and then told me he would help me but then stood me up.)\u00a0 But this girl- telling me when I told her I had cancer what did it matter if he fell for someone else and flirting with him on set in front of me- which by the way got me on HBO’s website.\u00a0 I channelled all the stuff she was dishing my way\u00a0into one awesome background performance so good one of the guys on the set even asked me if I was going for an Oscar (I think he meant Emmy) and I told him “you have no idea.”\u00a0 Even the principals that day knew what I was dealing with because I heard one of them comment “she knows.”\u00a0 I still did one hell of a job.<\/p>\n
04\/02\/08 Camdenite My Name Is Earl 10.5\u00a0 Swear to god the lead guy looked at me, though he was wearing sunglasses and said the word “fired.”\u00a0 Freaked me out.\u00a0 I ran into a guy from Deadwood who was a regular Union on the show.\u00a0 He used to tell me I made a good whore, though he would add I was a good actress.\u00a0 they put me up with the principals but I never looked to see if you could see me.\u00a0 Frankly I was still having problems with my health and not sure why and stressed about it and thought maybe this was in my head.\u00a0 I mean I did not go around saying I hate this group or that.\u00a0 If someone would ask I would say that a group kind of scared me but I did not want to join and Just wanted to work.\u00a0 After being tripped and all though I was getting to feel as though I was under attack and I was getting fed up because I just wanted to be nice and do a good job.<\/p>\n
04\/03\/08 Camdenite My Name Is Earl\u00a0 12.7 hours. I have to add I was really impressed with this one actor who played this character in a wheel chair.\u00a0 Brit guy.\u00a0 I think he is now on Walk hard now.\u00a0 the zombie show I can’t watch.<\/p>\n
04\/04\/08 Space Station BG Bedtimes Stories – Fitting I think this was for the second week I was supposed to work.\u00a0 Space Alien girl.\u00a0 Funny thing is though they made some comment about how I would not need to do background for much longer or something.\u00a0 It was a weird fitting, though I did love the outfit.<\/p>\n
04\/07\/08 Grey’s Anatomy 12.5 hours. I loved working this show despite the stuff between me and the stand in.\u00a0 Plus it was minutes from where I live.<\/p>\n
04\/09\/08 CSI Tech CSI: NY 8 hours<\/p>\n
04\/10\/08 Commercial 12 hours\u00a0 Cancer commercial with the guy from Ticket to ride who\u00a0was at the bottom of the hill and then had to walk down to but made it much faster than I did.\u00a0 I swear I still think the PA wanted me to look bad that day and he knew I was not able to run.\u00a0 I even told Central when they booked me.\u00a0<\/p>\n
04\/11\/08 12 hours same commercial as the day before.<\/p>\n
04\/17\/08 Grey’s Anatomy.\u00a0 11.9 They were working me allot at this point.<\/p>\n
04\/21\/08 Detective\/ Homeland Emp CSI NY 12 hours Funny considering.\u00a0 At the same time I would never do what my father does.\u00a0 I am not the child I was though I still am.\u00a0 I like soft things and not violence and I like poetry and I can play this part but actually be it.\u00a0 Come on.\u00a0 Get real.\u00a0 And I have not taken a math class since College.\u00a0 Statistics and spreadsheets are not my thing.\u00a0 Sorry.<\/p>\n
04\/22\/08 UFO Conventioneer Race to Witch Mountain 14.3 hours\u00a0 I car pooled with others for this one.\u00a0 Recalled multi days.\u00a0 Worked with Johnny from carnivale and bunch of regulars.\u00a0 Played cards or games at one point with these military guys Union during lunch.\u00a0<\/p>\n
04\/23\/08 UFO Conventioneer Race to Witch Mountain 12.3 hours<\/p>\n
04\/24\/08 UFO Conventioneer Race to Witch Mountain 15.5 hours<\/p>\n
04\/28\/08 Female Greece BG: Noble Bedtime Stories 15 hours Greek days. Had a confrontation with Courtney Lovell. I wanted to know why Joy told me that I was off the list after i had told her I was not interested in following anyone around and that I was being bullied.\u00a0 I kind of suspected what I later found out- that she was friends with Ms M.\u00a0 I told her I felt Like i was having why I beat cancer taken away and she told me not to lay that on to her.\u00a0 I later found out from a background guy who acted like a regular on Eli Stone, but I never saw him there (he says he worked a courtroom day) that the ADs on this film were the new ADs at Eli Stone.\u00a0 there were rumors going around that the\u00a0show was coming back and not being cancelled. I did not want to go back to it, but somehow felt that those rumors meant I would lose all.\u00a0 And I did.\u00a0 they also said\u00a0that they wanted someone gone so they could use someone else.\u00a0 I kind of\u00a0felt I knew who and what they were talking about.\u00a0\u00a0 Also a woman I had worked with on Grey’s who I let borrow some hair spray actually gave me a full bottle of the organic stuff I used.\u00a0 that was a nice surprise.<\/p>\n
04\/29\/08 NY Ped\/ Medical Examiner Criminal Minds 8 hours.\u00a0 the guy in charge of us on this also helped at the PSA for cancer and endedup I think talking to the AD there to put me on tape near Jodie Foster.\u00a0 that was awesome.\u00a0 though he was kind of mean toward me here.\u00a0 And there was a PA here who showed up the last week on Eli Stone.\u00a0 I later saw her on Modern Family.\u00a0 he was cool with me at the PSA.\u00a0 Carol from Central called me on set and told me they wanted me back on Bedtime Stories the next day.<\/p>\n
04\/30\/08 Greek Noble BG\u00a0 Bedtime Stories\u00a0 13 hours\u00a0This was the day I showed up and the PA (same one from my day at Star Trek fitting) told me they did not have a voucher for me and that Central said I had cancelled.\u00a0 We had a very early call time and I showed up 30\u00a0minutes early, ate breakfast and then went to get hair and makeup done.\u00a0 that way I did not have to worry about not getting food and could get in and get done ASAP.\u00a0 Well while in line for hair the coordinator who checked us in made some comments about people being late and I looked at her and said I got here 30 minutes early.\u00a0 And she acted like I caught her with her hand in the cookie jar.\u00a0 I had I think another brief conversation with Courtney Lovell.\u00a0 I could tell she did not want me there because I heard her talking to the Coordinator who was acting like I did something wrong when I did not.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Why would I cancel and then show up to work?\u00a0 Cancelling to is grounds for termination if you do it I think like 3-7 times with Central.\u00a0 They kept changing their policy. I would never cancel Central unless a recall of another Central show.\u00a0 I was always aware of that policy and Central had a reputation for not respecting the other casting agents shows outside of central so they would\u00a0count a cancellation for a non- central show as a bad mark.\u00a0 So I was careful never to get myself in that situation.\u00a0 I managed to avoid it for years.\u00a0 Plus I was there to work.\u00a0 When i got home there was a message saying I was not even suppose to go to work.\u00a0 So if I had not shown, Central would have had me cancelling and possibly terminated me on a lie.\u00a0<\/p>\n
05\/01\/08 Greek Noble Bedtime stories 12.5 hours.\u00a0 Again they did not have a voucher for me but wrote one up, yet I was told I was recalled.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0At this point I had been tripped on a set.\u00a0 Bullied by girls obsessed with an actor I never knew existed before i worked with him.\u00a0 Beat cancer.\u00a0 Was getting sick from gluten, but did not know.\u00a0 All I wanted was to work and keep my reputation in tact and not have this PA Courtney putting in my file never again on this or that show when I was being abused and I told her I was not there for guys and she and Central acted like I committed some crime and no one would tell me what it was.\u00a0 I did not want to be back on Eli Stone Second season, but I did not like being attacked.\u00a0 Some guy on an independent actually yelled at me when I said I did not want to be back and in front of a guy who worked bedtime with me.\u00a0 Seriously the guy who attacked me verbally and kind of scared me he told me he would make certain did not work again.\u00a0 This was the same guy who told me that the AD on bedtime was the new guy for Eli Stone.\u00a0 Again this was the week before they announced Eli Stone was coming back.\u00a0 My life revolved around acting and the set world, but not one show, but I felt like the people from that show were destroying everything i worked for and for petty reasons of their own.\u00a0 this was the last week I worked for Central.\u00a0 They would not tell me who said what.\u00a0 I only know from my perspective you don’t lie and make it look like a person would cancel or do something irresponsible like that to take away some one’s employment, especially after said person has had a Major accident on a set.\u00a0 I know Courtney must have known about that.\u00a0 She worked with both of the key crew on the set of The Goods at Eli Stone.\u00a0<\/p>\n
05\/02\/08 Greek BG Bedtime Stories 12.5 hours.\u00a0 This time I had a voucher with my name on it and it read just ND Greece BG 2nd Unit.\u00a0 At this point I felt as though someone were trying to make me feel spit on.\u00a0 Seriously there are people in L<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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