Premiere of “Deadfall”
A friend invited lyssa and I to the premiere of Deadfall last night because she works with the Tribeca Film Festival. We were escorted in quickly and avoided the long line and decided to watch the celebrities (Olivia Wilde, Eric Bana…etc) walk down the red carpet. When you live in New York, celebrity sightings typically happen in restaurants or coffee shops. So, the whole “red carpet thing” was kind of fascinating…
Lyssa and I eventually found our seats and started to chit chat about where the celebs would sit. The theater was particularly ordinary and I couldn’t imagine the red carpet walkers squeezing in with the locals. Moments later we got a polite “excuse me” and I realized that our section was empty and I was starring at Olivia Wilde and her “crew” if you will. She made her assistant sit next to me which was fine because there were awkward sex scenes with her character throughout the film and I had particularly bad gas. Stephan Rzuowitzky sat directly in front of me, which was kinda great because “The Counterfeiters” is still one of my favorite films, but I kept kicking his seat when I’d uncross/recross my legs. He was polite about it though.
We thought the experience was hilarious but 5 minutes into the film I did realize that the celebs were going to talk through the entire thing because technically they had already seen it and knew the ending. that was a shame. I had one slightly awkward moment when I tried to undo my top botton to release some of the pressure on my belly. I imagined Olivia Wilde complaining to someone that the guy next to her was taking off his pants and then me being thrown out of the theater and it all making local news: “dude gets naked @ Deadfall premiere.” This happened during one of her sex scenes though and when I glanced up at her I realized she was much more embarrassed than I was.
