I called my former intern, Shea to see if she wanted to go with me to Guthrie yesterday to try and find the set of "The Killer in Me." She said yes (I love that girl, she's up for anything!) so we headed out there around 4:00 yesterday.
When we got into town, we stopped for gas and I saw a high school boy filling up. I asked him if he lived in Guthrie, and if he knew where they were shooting the movie. He did! He gave us directions, and we set off that way. It was in a residential neighborhood and when we came to the area where it was, there were road blocks set up for about a 5 block radius. We drove past all of them, and saw security people waving traffic on by. We parked at the edge of the area and decided to just start walking and try and sneak in. We cut across a park lawn and then found a little alley that we decided to go down. I spotted a trailer and when we got near it, we heard people talking through a white fence. We looked, and saw a film crew moving giant lights around. They were setting up outside a big Victorian looking mansion, and there were more crew members sitting on the porch.
We were so excited! We carefully lowered ourselves down into the plants and vines growing next to the fence and were quiet as mice. Still, the crew looked our way a few time and we were worried that they saw us and would kick us out. I whipped out my phone and started posting Twitter updates so my Tweeps could share the excitement. Nothing happened for awhile, but then...we saw a petite woman in a white robe walk toward the house. She went up the stairs and they opened the door for her.
I was giddy! I whispered excitedly to Shea, "That's Jessica Alba! I think that's her! Look! Look!" Shea squinted and said, "No, that looks like Kate Hudson!" I said, "But she has brown hair." Shea said, "So?" I still wasn't sure, but I was convinced that we had seen one of them at least. So mad that I didn't have my camera ready and missed the photo opp! I snapped some shots of the house, the security and the crew. A little while later, we were still hidden in the vegetation and we heard someone off to our side yell, "Quiet on the set!" and then..."rolling!!" COOL!!!
We watched with wide eyes...but nothing happened. They were shooting inside the house, and the windows were all taped up with black paper. We got bored and decided to sneak furthur down the alley, past the trailer so we could see more. At that point, some woman who lived in a house behind the set started up a weed whacker and it was so loud! Three crew members came running our way shouting "Ma'am! Ma'am!" They got her to turn it off, but then one of them came our way. He was friendly and waved and mouthed the word "hi." Then he yelled, "Cut! Thank you!" He told us that we wouldn't be able to see much because they were filming inside, and that they might be in there for 4 or 5 hours. I asked him what his job title was, and he said he was the second assistant director. He said he was supposed to make us leave, and then asked us if we lived in Guthrie. We said no, we were from Oklahoma City. He said that now he would really have to make us leave! We said, no wait! We mean...we're from here, we live just down the street! He laughed and I asked if they would be going out in the city this weekend. He said yes, and told us to hang out at some of the "posh spots" if we wanted to see the stars! We begged him to tell us where they were going, but he said that's all he could tell us.
He walked off and let us stay standing behind the house. The crew on the porch kept looking over, and finally two security guys came over and asked us to walk down out of the alley and stand behind the trailers (where we couldn't see anything). We lingered by one of the trailers and talked up some more of the crew. The security guys came back and asked us to leave again....so we went back to stand behind the trailers and quickly got bored. I gave my card to one of the assistant producers and told him if he wanted to tip us off when they went out, maybe we would take them into the city. Haha! There were several dozen old cars parked right next to the set as we were walking off that looked really cool.
We ate dinner at a cafe in the middle of town, then made the drive home. I was pretty satisfied since we found the set, and were able to hang around so long. Too bad we didn't get a better look at Kate Hudson!
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