Now and Then

Today was our last day filming with our female director Lesli Link Glatter. I really enjoyed the last nine days with her and really hope we see her back. It was refreshing to have a female perspective on things and I thought she was extremely prepared and very artistic. Which makes sense when you think about the fact that her background was dance. She was a dance choreographer and worked in Europe, Asia and the US. I can only imagine that when she was 18 and living in Paris and dancing she was a sight to see.  Coming from a dance background myself, I would have loved to have seen her preform. I am sure she was spectacular. She was very good with choreographing scenes. I never that a dance choreographer would make a good director, but now I can see why. I'm actually surprised that she hasn't directed a dance movie given her background, but she has directed plenty of other stuff. Ironically, she directed a movie I loved when I was younger - Now and Then. It's a movie with a star studded cast - Christina Ricci, Rosie O'Donnell, Melanie Griffith, Demi Moore, Thora Birch, Gaby Hoffman and Rita Wilson. It's this charming little movie about 4 girls who were best friends and have reunited again as adults when one of them is about to have her first baby. The movie came out when I was in high school and I loved it. Lesli isn't the first person we have had on Homeland that was attached to this film though. Last season we had Gabby Hoffman on the show as a producer that was involved with interviews of Brody after his return home. Gabby was lovely as is Lesli and now I am really starting to think that Now and Then must have been a great little movie to work on.

Despite the daily downpour we had this afternoon, we still managed to get everything shot that we needed and still get off under 12 hours even with a company move. It was a great last day for Lesli and I truly hope I will see her and be able to work with her again. Before we made our company move we were working in this office space with Claire. As she sat beside me at Video Village she snapped a photo of me and emailed it to me and I found the irony in it and so did she as she too now knows that I'm pregnant. I was sitting beside a dry erase board on which the art department had drawn an arrow and written the word Family. It just so happened that the way in which I sat beside the board had the arrow and word Family pointing at my belly. Every now and then the universe puts out signs to you for the course in which you should take. I try to be one of those people that pays attention to these signs so that I can capitalize on opportunities if need be. Well, there was no sign to capitalize off of today, but I certainly hope this happy accident was the universe's way of telling me this time it's going to work. This pregnancy is going to be fine and at the end of it Marshall and I will have a healthy baby to bring home and love. I know this isn't just our prayer either. I know that there are lots of people, probably even more than we know, who are praying for the same thing for us. I just hope God hears all of our prayers and blesses us with a healthy baby by March.