Every now and then while working on a show out of town, we get to go out of that town to film. Ironic I know to be out of town when you are already out of town, but for the next three days we are taking Homeland on the road. Today through Thursday we are working in Salisbury, NC, which is about an hour outside of Charlotte. Why exactly are we in Salisbury you might ask? There is a particular house, I mean mansion, that we are filming at. It reminded me of a miniature version of the Biltmore House in Asheville. This house was unbelievable! I didn't get a chance to explore the whole house today, but the few rooms I did venture in for filming were spectacular. We filmed in the downstairs master bedroom and the bathroom was so large that we set up video village, the sound mixer and a camera all in the bathroom. Their bathroom was larger than our office in our house, which is a normal size room for most people's standards. In the bathroom was his and hers walk in closets (that could easily accomadate a twin size bed), a large whirl pool bath tub, his and her double sink vanities, his and her toilets (complete with telephones and dressers), and a large 3 shower head shower. Don't get me wrong, what girl wouldn't want a large walk-in closet, but the rest of the size of everything was a bit excessive. Oh and I forgot to mention the house sits on 17 acres of land on a golf course. The homeowners bought that many acres so that they didn't have anyone beside them and their backyard backs up to the golf course. I only met the mother and daughter that live at the house, so I'm not sure how many other people live here. Unless it's twelve more people this house is entirely too big for the family that lives here. There wasn't one thing in the house that wasn't on a grandiose scale. Apparently, the guy that owns the house is a lawyer and made his money suing large corporations.
The one good part about being out of town for several days in a row is that the production puts us up in a hotel to avoid having us drive back and forth every day. Usually, this would result in a big party at the bar in the crew hotel's lobby. And I'm sure it did. I, however, didn't set foot down there. Why would I? Besides the part about not being able to drink due to the little person growing inside me, I also was exhausted and just couldn't wait to go to sleep. So I settled in to my somewhat mundane hotel room and turned on the Olympics. Another perk to being in a hotel room - I actually got the Olympics! At my apartment I don't have cable and there is no NBC air channel that my antenna can pick up so I've missed most of the Olympics. Tonight though I caught one of my favorite sports - women's gymnastics. I watched Ally from the US win the gold medal for the floor exercises. After that I turned on a movie, set the sleep timer and snuggled in to my bed in the hopes of a good night sleep.
Every now and then while working on a show out of town, we get to go out of that town to film. Ironic I know to be out of town when you are already out of town, but for the next three days we are taking Homeland on the road. Today through Thursday we are working in Salisbury, NC, which is about an hour outside of Charlotte. Why exactly are we in Salisbury you might ask? There is a particular house, I mean mansion, that we are filming at. It reminded me of a miniature version of the Biltmore House in Asheville. This house was unbelievable! I didn't get a chance to explore the whole house today, but the few rooms I did venture in for filming were spectacular. We filmed in the downstairs master bedroom and the bathroom was so large that we set up video village, the sound mixer and a camera all in the bathroom. Their bathroom was larger than our office in our house, which is a normal size room for most people's standards. In the bathroom was his and hers walk in closets (that could easily accomadate a twin size bed), a large whirl pool bath tub, his and her double sink vanities, his and her toilets (complete with telephones and dressers), and a large 3 shower head shower. Don't get me wrong, what girl wouldn't want a large walk-in closet, but the rest of the size of everything was a bit excessive. Oh and I forgot to mention the house sits on 17 acres of land on a golf course. The homeowners bought that many acres so that they didn't have anyone beside them and their backyard backs up to the golf course. I only met the mother and daughter that live at the house, so I'm not sure how many other people live here. Unless it's twelve more people this house is entirely too big for the family that lives here. There wasn't one thing in the house that wasn't on a grandiose scale. Apparently, the guy that owns the house is a lawyer and made his money suing large corporations.
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