We made a movie in a day: We traveled 467 miles, to 20 locations, with 18 actors, in less than 24 hours. The lead actress wasn’t given a script, a story line, or even her character name. She ‘woke up’ in a hotel room with no memory, and her only goal was to figure out who she was. We rehearsed with 17 of the actors for 3 days leading up to the shoot day. The other actors couldn’t have a script either, we would never know what Shannon would say or how she would react. The other actors could only work off of goals and motivations. We blindfolded Shannon Lucio for wardrobe, she wasn’t allowed to see her hair and makeup. And we dropped her in a city she doesn’t know, Dallas, and she had to ‘choose her own adventure’. There were no second takes, no rehearsals for Shannon.
