Hey Fans.
(I hope everyone knows that is a joke)
So it's officially DAY 2 in Turkey. I like very much... (I pictured that in the Borat voice).
Problem with turkish people speaking english... they all sound exactly like Borat so I am constantly imitating lines from that movie. I feel like when I get back to the US I will have this permanent accent because I will forget how to speak normal, then all of you will mock me.
SO. First I will update you with the most exciting stuff...
Yesterday: FIRST DAY HERE and I have a job. It was really really cool. I was in a music video for this famous singer here... No, I don't know his name and the lyrics were in turkish but it sounded like "Turka Turka Baybeeee". Also there was a rapper who spoke (sang? rapped?) in english.
So I actually didn't know I was going to have a job until they called me back at 1 or so in the afternoon after 6 castings (I LOVE being busy) And they just told me to bring a bathing suit and a nice dress.... a van picked me up full of people and we were on our way.
So after driving one hour along the coast on the European side of Turkey we get to this beautiful beach club...
WAIT. I forgot to mention when I say "driving" I mean careening out of control at fast speeds whipping around and breaking on a dime every 100 meters. We zoom around at like 120 km/hr on one lane roads that go both ways, all along mountainous terrain. I literally thought I was going to die more then once. Especially when we almost hit the cow in front of us and the car couldn't make it all the way up a hill it was so steep... we started sliding backwards....
ANYWAYS
We get to this club and they have me change into my swim suit and we walk down to the beach and low and behold there is a huge beach party set up with this super high rickety old 30 meter tall tower.
I was actually laughing at the tower because it was swaying in the wind with ladder bits missing when one of the guys told me to go up there.
I started laughing at him because they like to joke here...
"You have to go up there..."
I started laughing again at his joke at which point a handful of people started laughing around me and joking in Turkish.
10 min later I'm standing up inside the guard tower. They repaired the floor of the tower that day and there are like 10 nails sticking up off the floor. I'm not going to even describe the climb up there. I have suppressed it from my memory. And then they play this loud music at which point the 20 bikini clad women (and when I say women I mean the professional strippers they hired) down below start to dance and they yell at me to do the same.
Funny thing is, no one speaks english. NO ONE. And they don't understand that yelling turkish instructions into the megaphone doesn't make me automatically learn turkish.
I still have no idea what's going on at this point. It went from car to dancing 30 meters in the air in 2.5 seconds.
We did a bunch of scenes in bathing suits. Highlights were going on the 4 wheeler down the beach, dancing on top of speakers next to the singer and playing beach volleyball....
Side note: apparently no one in Turkey has ever played volleyball. I had to show everyone how to hit and serve....
After all of this filming which was like 6 or 7 hours we break for dinner (delicious home made kebobs) makeup applying and changing into our dresses.
Apparently when they say nice cocktail dress they really mean super short, super shiny and super gaudy dresses. But then again all the girls besides 2 other models were strippers. And I'm not saying this in a mean way, I mean that was literally was their occupation.
Huge fake silicones, bleach blond fake hair down to the butt, 8 inch high heels....
The fake party scenes were the best. We just have to dance.... except me who has to pretend to seduce the male model across the bar. Which was going pretty good until this woman started dancing like I have never seen before. It was this hair twirling, gyrating mixture of Elaine from Seinfeld and someone having a seizure. She was going crazy and I burst out laughing. I can't wait to see it in the video...
Anyways she got so crazy she knocked down the disco ball with her wild hands and it shattered on the floor, at which point an extra who had been drinking large amounts of absinth tried to pick it up and gashed open his hand. WHICH he didn't notice.
Fast forward, this guy keeps trying to dance with me and the other models, very drunkenly as well as making friends with the male model. He couldn't stop hugging and clapping Leo on the back and blood was all over Leo's shirt. It sounds scary but it was actually really really funny.
Apparently in this club scene I was supposed to see Leo and fall in love and then I dance to seduce him and then he comes over and we dance together.
I am interested in seeing how this music video turns out. The director was so funny, I can't describe in type what he was doing but the instructions he would give in english were so outlandish... Like tips on how to dance good.
"Baybies, scream with your mouth "SAMBA" when you dance, all animals of party yell."
We wrapped up filming at around 1:30 am, and drove another hour home....
