“EWWW, IS THAT A DILDO?”
When I was a GCD at GSD&M. CD, I was asked to oversee a TV shoot with a young team that had sold a for Southwest Bell holiday spot. It was about a father and son, who drove to a small tree lot in the country to buy the family’s Christmas tree.
A director was chosen and I flew with a producer and the young team to NYC to meet with Scott Burns, who’d been awarded the job. The spot was going to be shot in New York. I tried to be a fly on the wall and only to ask questions if I felt something was being overlooked.
One such question was regarding the location. Knowing that we would be shooting adjacent to New Your City and not being intimately familiar with nearby locations, I questioned whether we were going to be able to find something that felt small and bucolic like the location the script described. Scott Burns assured me that the locations we would we scouting that afternoon would reveal the perfect answer.
Fast forward to an entourage tromping across a park 45 minutes outside of the city. I could tell that Scott was right. As we walked, he asked me, “Now isn’t this one of the most beautiful settings you’ve ever seen?” Just as I was about to answer him, there was an odd crunching noise and Scott Burns looked down at the ground to see what had has caused the noise.
“Ewwww. Is that a dildo?” It was.
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