I Found Jds!!

[Kyle Stebbins]

http://www.kylestebbins.com/jds.jpg

I knew it... seriously, though, this is him.
YEAH BABY!! DEJA VU!!

[Brandon Rice]

NICE! I can't wait to see the movie,just to spot JDS!

[Chris Messineo]

Denzel is always upstaging the other actors.

Chris

[Ted Arabian]

Kyle, I cannot take you seriously! Man... put on a shirt! :)

[Kyle Stebbins]

hahahahahaha.... yeah, it's getting a little cold. sorry, man, i was just sick of the other avatar. give me a second here.

[Jack Daniel Stanley]

heheh
how did you know, Kyle?
did you see this somewhere?
http://www.frenchquarterfeatures.com/deja/4X5deja.gif

[PaPa]

im lost, do you guys know this fellow?


edited
ooop nevermind, those brain sparks just made the connection.

[Jack Daniel Stanley]

yah JDS = Jack Daniel Stanley
c'est moi :laugh:

[Brandon Rice]

I saw the trailer for this movie last night again, looks hot.

[Kyle Stebbins]

i saw it when i went to go see clint eastwood's new movie, flags of our fathers. i gotta say, the movie is looking VERY hot.

i'm pumped, Jack, SO PUMPED! congrats on making the cast!!

[Andrew Brinkhaus]

That's incredible! I would kill to even be able to see the set, let alone be ON SCREEN!

[Ted Arabian]

http://www.kylestebbins.com/jds.jpg

I knew it... seriously, though, this is him.
YEAH BABY!! DEJA VU!!
Damn, Kyle. You're good!

I hope that you had a better picture in which to spot him... or I am going to think that you may be a little too obsessive! :grin:

[mameragex]

How lucky is this guy?.....C'Mon MAN!!! Not only does he win the fest and NOW he's already Dinzel's plummer!!!:undecided

JK, LOL Jack! Congrats again buddy! that's WAAY COOL BRO!:thumbsup:

Hay did you announce this or was this somethin you where gonna keep hush?:happy:

http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/8/8/160418/JDmario.jpg

OKAY OKAY! I'M SORRY MAN! I PROMISE, THIS IS THE LAST TIME! I just saw the pic and couldn't resist. We still cool I hope.:):thumbup:

[Ted Arabian]

Wow, Mameragex.... you really are talented!!! Very cool. Very funny. (sorry Jack)

[Jack Daniel Stanley]

bwhahahahaha!
I love it!

that's hilarious! :grin: :laugh: :cheesy:

Mr. Hanky Looks a tad too realistic so I downloaded it to my desktop for fear the pic gets deleted.

[Charli]

mam - I think that scene made it to the cutting room floor.

[Ted Arabian]

He even put a handlebar mustache on him! What great detail!!! mameragex, you rock!

[Jack Daniel Stanley]

How lucky is this guy?.....
Hay did you announce this or was this somethin you where gonna keep hush?:happy:

I talked about it when we shot it at the end February. We actually moved out of our apartement in New Orleans on a Monday Morning, drove our packed UHAUL about 90 minutes away to a swamp town Morgan City, LA, and stayed there at the holiday in for a week with our Uhaul in the parking lot, then drove the rest of the way to our new apartment in Brooklyn.

Someone started a thread for me like this when the trailer came out in August. This is what I posted then:
...
First of all disclaimer ... while my scene is one on one with DMan (our dialogue is to each other at least) my part is only 4 lines long ... I think most of you know that, but would hate for anyone to think that I had some big part or something ...

Having said that I am in the trailer ... sort of ... first the inside scoop on some of the shots and then I will point me(or part of me) out.

... these shots are from the day I was on set and described the awesome steady cam work where the operator had to step blindly over an open pit and it was flawless!
(here's that old link) http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showthread.php?t=48661&highlight=Deja (http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showthread.php?t=48661&highlight=Deja)
and this is a shot from the steadicam camera
http://www.frenchquarterfeatures.com/deja/3dejavu.gif

this is the plank the steady cam operator had to walk backwards down to the end and then once Denzel opened a trap door, he had to step over it blind feeling his way with his foot and the shot was all smooth as glass.
http://www.frenchquarterfeatures.com/deja/1dejavu.gif

So that's exterior same locale as my scene.

Here's a grab of the crime scene I am investigating.
http://www.frenchquarterfeatures.com/deja/4dejavu.gif

My character's not there when that happens ... just doing the forensics after the fact ... but that's the ambulance that's stuck in the wall that I am examining here:
http://www.frenchquarterfeatures.com/deja/4X5deja.gif

Denzel finds this clue just after speaking to me
http://www.frenchquarterfeatures.com/deja/2dejavu.gif

which means I've turned around and begun to re-examine the van ... and so yes that's my ass in this shot (that's the back of the blue and yellow ATF jacket and white jumper rolled down around my waist as per the costume shot above)
http://www.frenchquarterfeatures.com/deja/5dejavu.gif

so yes ladies and gentleman ... while it remains to be seem whether or not I have made the final cut in the actual movie, my ass at least has made the trailer :laugh:

and before that, this is what I posted in February after I shot it, which talks about he on set experience:
Hey guys.

Couple of people PMed me asking me to posty the update/scoop on my small part in the Tony Scott / Denzel Washington movie, Dejavu, since I finished the shoot about a week and a half ago. I was waiting til our scanner was unpacked so I could post the pic as well. Sorry the pic is only of me, it's from the costume dept. I think I'd get in serious trouble if I posted pics of Denzel or anything else anyway.

I was the 69th male lead, lol, and I was supposed to have only one line. Now I assumed my part would be like those guys on the crime scene in law in order when the regular cast cop shows up and says "have you found the weapon yet" and then the actor with one line crosses with his back to camera and his head cropped off and says "yeah over there by the dumpster", but that wasn't exactly the case ...

Denzel was IMPROVISING (gulp) so I wound up with like 4 lines and they covered my closeup from two different angles ... WTF?

I basically interrupt Denzel while he's on the phone talking through the mystery so far with to his team(which includes Val Kylmer) as they try to stop Jim Caveizal from doing bad things.

He's an ATF agent like my character and he walks into the crime scene having the above conversation and I was just supposed to interrupt him so it would be natural

... "you want me to just randomly interrupt Denzel Washington ... er OK" ... now that's how Denzel wanted to work, but jeez it was a little more nerve racking than a cue line.

So they're shooting rehearsal and Denzel comes in talking about the case and I step up to him and say my line "you want a mask?" and his line is supposed to be "no I'm fine" ... but that's not what the dude says ... dude says "What?"

Now I'm sure I blinked at least, but I was on my game enough to through it back at him and say "You need a mask?" He shakes his head slightly as if he still didn't understand me. "A mask?" I repeat this time pulling at the mask hanging around my neck and finally he says "No. I'm fine." .... Whew. Okay I can do this.

And each take was completly different of course. Sometimes he'd say what then say it again, sometimes he'd just look at me like he didn't hear me, and any combination thereupon with a few variataions.

Now the other part of the fun ... the fun being that they conflated two scenes with out telling me and now Denzel was playing our scene and his phone scene simultaneously when the were scripted as happening at differnt times and the fact that he was improvising, the other part of the fun was that he didn't make eyecontact with me ever except during the scene.

Now I don't think he was being a jerk or anything. I think he was conducting himsefl like someone that was getting paid millions of dollars to ensure that a movie would make hundreds of times that. He has a lot of responsibility obviously. And I'm sure it would suck to be trying to get your head into this murder story where your chracter has become too attached to the victim and having a-holes come up to you between takes going "oh man I really love your work, training day was da bomb!" Plus even if he wasn't famous and didn't have all this pressure on him, he seems like someone that would work by staying in character as much as possible anyway. But none the less its a bit un-nerving to work with someone that won't look at you. The one time I was a little late getting to my mark, he said "you got to come quicker than that" but with his back to me, walking away.

Fortunately after the first take, Tony Scott says in a crisp Brittish accent while the crew is resetting, "That's great Jack. Nice an' natural, just like that." And he was the polar opposite Denzel. He would make funny faces and crude gestures mostly for my amusement whenever he could and said after almost every take "great Jack, just like that". I think basically he realized that if you have an actor that's just getting his SAG card in a one on one scene with Denzel, who's improvising and who has a very demanding "maestro" aire to him (earned though it may be) you better keep telling that inexperienced actor he's doing great and making silly faces like a drunken crazy uncle or the actor would probably crap his pants.

I guess that's about it. Denzel never said boo even when we were wrapped. I shook Tony Scott's hand and thanked him for my SAG card and he said I did a good job and wished me best of luck when we were done.

There were also real ATF and FBI agents there that were expert consultants and they helped dress me on set so that part was cool too. They basically had all the pieces there and just put them on me.

Oh and the coolest part the day before when I was called and wasn't used (other than tony scott putting the antenae of his portable monitor under his shirt to simmulate an errection, lol) was watching the steadicam operator work ... dude was walking backwards (with an assistant of course) around a house shooting Denzel, but then Denzel walks down a 3 foot wide pier, so Steadicam is still walking backwards to near the end of the pier - not excatly perilous with the assistant, but still that's a lot of heavy expensive equipment on a narrow plank ...

but here's the part I thought was too cool. Denzel throws open a trapdoor at the end of the pier and the steady cam angles down on that and then back up to Denzel's medium closeup, Denzel steps back ... which means steadicam has to take a blind step foreward over an open trap door with the bayou just below the gaping hole.

Now I could take a blind step over a gaping hole while wearing a steadicam, but to watch him do it and watch the play back having just watched him taking this step, probing with his foot to to make sure he's found solid purchase on the other side, and then see the playback looks as smooth and level as a dolly shot ... well it was just damn cool.

So when I was on set again for my scene the next day I said to him between set ups "I enjoyed watching you work the other day" and he looked a little confused and I said "when you had to step over that trap door, that was badass" ... and he just lit up and said "OH thanks!" and started talking about the shot and saying he could barely move afterwards, lol. I guess not too many people come up to steadicam operators on a shoot and say they really dig what they are doing.

That's it ... I'm gonna go rest my typing finger now
http://frenchquarterfeatures.com/deja/4X5deja.gif

oh and that light is from these giant ass silks

- Jack

[Mark Johnson]

Man, thanks for that Jack. What a great report.

Congrats once more. You da man!

[Kholi]

How lucky is this guy?.....C'Mon MAN!!! Not only does he win the fest and NOW he's already Dinzel's plummer!!!:undecided

JK, LOL Jack! Congrats again buddy! that's WAAY COOL BRO!:thumbsup:

Hay did you announce this or was this somethin you where gonna keep hush?:happy:

http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/8/8/160418/JDmario.jpg

OKAY OKAY! I'M SORRY MAN! I PROMISE, THIS IS THE LAST TIME! I just saw the pic and couldn't resist. We still cool I hope.:):thumbup:
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You seriously need to put up a website that shows off all of your completed works.

[TimurCivan]

That wreckage in the background.... is that whats left of your apartment after Rekindled? have you repainted the room yet? yo should keep it it looks nice.

[Kyle Stebbins]

Hahaha, that was awesome!!! Jack I think you've got the envy of many people on this site! You're sure right about the steadicam operators not getting enough thanks, they work so hard, I'm sure. Congrats on the wrap, man, I am going to see this movie on opening day so I can spot you out. BRAVO!!!
-Kyle S

[Jack Daniel Stanley]

Well like i said, don't get too excited. I could get cut. I'm interrupting Denzel on a phone call so they could easily have him walk in talking on the phone, cut to the otherside of the conversation, and cut back to him skipping my interuption whereupon he turns around and finds the earing clue.

In fact I'm 99.9% this will hapen and you will never hear me utter a word as I could never figure out how my character served the story in anyway. Only guess is that since Denzel is working on this case covertly, me interrupting him could show that he's nervous about it or doesn't want to be overheard .... but that's all I could come up with.

Plus there are guys on here that have way more acting cred than me
like Alvarez
http://imdb.com/name/nm1856798/
and of course Kimko
http://imdb.com/name/nm0453968/

[mameragex]

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You seriously need to put up a website that shows off all of your completed works.
You know what If I keep this up...I'll be able to put up a whole freggin site full of DVXUSER Pics, Puns n Posters!:Drogar-Love(DBG)::thumbup: It's soo much fun to do. I just can't help myself. HAAAAAYYY!!! THATS NOT A BAD IDEA!!:Drogar-Evil(DBG)::thumbup:
http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/8/8/160418/DVX%20portfolio%20strip.jpg
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ++++++

But hay JACK!

I didn't know you had a speaking part TOO!
weather it gets cut or not man at least you got a speaking part man! WOW! that's even cooler. I've been in several movies and TV shows and couldn't even spot myself as a blur in the far distance! And the only speaking roll I had was on the news!:huh:

[Jack Daniel Stanley]

DENZEL: (speaking on phone) he already had an S.U.V., now he has one with stolen plates, don't you see -
JACK: (walks up / interrupts him) You wanna mask?
DENZEL: ... I'm sorry what?
JACK: A mask?
DENZEL: (looks confused, shakes his head/leans in asking for clarification non-verbally)
JACK: A mask ... you want one?
DENZEL: Uh ... no ... no ... it's fine.
JACK: alright ...
DENZEL: (BACK ON PHONE) don't you see, all we did was (etc) ...

or something like that ... like I said he was improvising from take one (gulp)

as you can see, not exactly an oscar moment :), but yeah, definitly fun + I'm S.A.G. elligible because of it.

[Kyle Stebbins]

yeha!!!! still amazing, jack, still amazing.
anyone would feel it is an honor to have a picture of themselves on imdb... but a picture with a star is even more incredible.

[Ted Arabian]

Yeah, that is very cool, Jack. And Denzel is the man! That must have been a very fun experience!

[Kyle Stebbins]

From what it sounds like, Denzel was sort of stand-offish. Thoughts?

[Jack Daniel Stanley]

Maybe.
But if you went into a meeting where some way up there executive was brokering a deal worth several million dollars and he didn't act like a candy striper, would you call him stand offish? Or just extremely focused in a high pressure situation that few of us can imagine for which he is payed millions of dollars.

So ... I think he acted like someone with millions of dollars riding on his shoulders who is also very dedicated to his craft - a real actor / artist and who is also a rich celebrity that people are always hassling all the time. I think it would be pretty hard to go from "Awe man your awesome, that one part in the Manchurian Candidate where you were all like hypnotized, that was awesome, awe man it's a pleasure to be working with you ... I mean your like one of the greatest living actors on the planet" to "Action" ok now suddenly you are an ATF agent watching a dead girls life through the past and falling in love with her as you see her life in the past even though she's already dead and you are trying desperately to solve the case in order to keep her from dying in the first place.

So while it would have been "fun" and made me a little more at ease if he had shaken my hand or patted me on the back, I can totally understand his position and acting method and wasn't offended by it. I mean this is a guy that gets films green lit, it must be so much harder to do your job if some newb actor is asking you a million questions about the craft and your career between takes. Also, he wants the moment to be happening for real on camera for the first time. If our characters were supposed to have a history or some rapport then maybe he would've chatted me up between takes. But they were strangers, so the only time we interacted was in the scene. May seem extreme, but no more so I think than olympic swimmers shaving all their body hair ... when the stakes are this high every small advantage to be at your best matters.

Now it was Tony Scott's job to make me feel at ease, hence all the goofy faces and stuff, although I suspect he has a proclivity for that anyway.

Now by the same token, our driver also worked on Ray and she talked about how Jamie Foxx would be cracking everyone up and just acting the clown on set and then the second they yelled "Action" his whole body would change and he would drop into Ray Charles in a blink of an eye completely in character and nailing it.

That works for him, a comic, an entertainer whose very talented, but this other highly focused insulated way which is about shutting everything out but the reality of the character works for Denzel.

So I wasn't offended, just a tad bit more intimidated/nervous than I would have been otherwise, but like I said, Mr. Scott helped with that end a good bit.

[Darkline]

I bet that was a lot of fun!

[Jaime V]

Jack, that was a great read of your experience on the set. I never saw that other post in August, so I didn't know about this before.

Thanks for sharing!

[Jack Daniel Stanley]

I bet that was a lot of fun! oh yeah!

Jack, that was a great read of your experience on the set. I never saw that other post in August, so I didn't know about this before.

Thanks for sharing! I'm probably annoying other members who have read about this all before, but I figured it was better to quote myself here rather than ressurect a dead thread in the cafe and have two threads going ... though this thread will probably get moved to the cafe if it doesn't die here in a bit.

but probably better here for now where the cafe vets don't have to be bored by me again :)

Glad you found the set report useful :thumbup:

[Kyle Stebbins]

It all makes sense about Denzel and the way he handles his craft. He's a stunning actor, so whatever he does is working quite well.

though this thread will probably get moved to the cafe if it doesn't die here in a bit.

hopefully not too soon! you know us dvxusers LIVE for this stuff!
-kyle

[Rubix³]

What a great read.

Nice work and way to take Denzel like a man. Congrats.

I had a line once in a Kathy Bates movie (Unconditional Love). "I will get your car miss." Course, it was totally cut.

Again, a really interesting read. If you have any other stories like this, post 'em!

And Training Day was da bomb. That whole "sh!t pushed in" sequence scares the sh!t out of me every single time I watch it. BOOM.