Not even celebrities are safe on the mean streets of New York. While filming "Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist" in Williamsburg and the LES, the stars evidently became the target of malicious attacks. Or at least the target of moldy avocados. That's right, in a startling interview, the Superbad star Michael Cera revealed how tough things really are in seedy, anything-goes Williamsburg.
"Sometimes on Fridays or Saturdays if we were shooting at 2am and bars were letting out we'd get the spillover of drunk people . . . And drunks can be pretty obnoxious sometimes and were screaming and running through the shots. We even had things thrown at us. An avocado was thrown at us by a homeless guy."
Wow. I'm glad he's alright. Maybe Judd Apatow was on hand to deflect the errant avocado with the lid of a trash can.
And there is: the latest dubiously newsworthy bit of entirely unnecessary celebrity gossip to hit the Burg. Hope you enjoyed it as much as I did.
Wow! Out here in Los Angeles where movies USED TO FILM, we've got retired motorcycle cops on sets and this sort of thing doesn't happen. C'mon Judd, did you have this kind of trouble when you were shooting at The Grove? Noooo....people even agreed to be UNPAID EXTRAS.
Film LA!!
Posted by: Keith | October 06, 2008 at 10:58 AM