Spotlight on Saige

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="2" width=200 BGCOLOR="#996600" TEXT="#080000" background="08251363.jpg"> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=94 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="08251381egerdp.jpg"> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" height=386 colspan=2 BGCOLOR="#FFFBF0" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><B>MESS'in  Around</B></FONT>    |     <A HREF="around.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="MESSin Around"><U>home</U></A> / <A HREF="http://www.johnnymessner.net" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.johnnymessner.net"><U>Johnny Messner Online</U></A> / </div> <div> <B>Spotlight on Saige</B></div> <div> Spotlight on Saige</div> <div> <B>October  2007</B></div> <div>    <IMG SRC="08e8c2c0.jpg" border=0 width="396" height="300" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">           <IMG SRC="08a8c2c0.jpg" border=0 width="396" height="300" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <bR> <div>     <B>Saige  plays the part of LIBBY in "Believers" and chatted up her experience on the set exclusively with Johnny Messner Online...</B></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>" I got the part of Libby after auditioning 3 or 4 times, at first I just went in and read by myself, I had to do 3 scenes both times, 2 of them</B></div> <div> <B>were real sad crying scenes. The last time I read with Deanna, ( and 2 other moms )and the director, Daniel and 2 of the producers, </B></div> <div> <B>Deanna  was great and they brought us in again together, so I was hoping it went good. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>On the first day we were on location at a house and we did the last scene first, it was strange because we all just met but had to act</B></div> <div> <B>like we were already family. Johnny was great, he made me feel comfortable right from the start. Deanna and Jon weren't there </B></div> <div> <B>because they weren't in those scenes. But I met everyone else, all the ad's and crew, everyone was cool. </B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>We filmed at an abandoned meat/butcher factory in L.A. next , it was real creepy and cool, and were there for about a week, I met </B></div> <div> <B>Jon and Eric who played Io and John Farley, they were so funny. Johnny brought his dog to the set too so I played with him a lot. </B></div> <div> <B>Jon, Johnny and I had a lot of scenes together so we ran our lines together, and goofed around a lot. and really got to know each </B></div> <div> <B>other, they will always be my 2 favorite actors, You asked if we had to work on a bond , but we really didn't both Johnny and Jon</B></div> <div> <B>were real protective right away, looking out for me. Deanna and I are so close we see each other all the time, and email, I just worked</B></div> <div> <B>on a commercial with her, it was great because I missed her so much. </B></div> <bR> <div>     <IMG SRC="08f4afa0.jpg" border=0 width="330" height="250" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">               <IMG SRC="0904afa0.jpg" border=0 width="330" height="250" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> <B>The next place we worked was an old missile silo, in the mountains. My first day there one of the crew found a rattle snake, they held</B></div> <div> <B>me and I got some cool pictures of it. It was pretty hot and we had to be in long sleeves all the time, that was hard. But it was great </B></div> <div> <B>because we were all really close by now, we had a few nights when we were doing night shoots and were bored between scenes</B></div> <div> <B>so Johnny pulled his car up to our trailers and he put one of my cd's in and I taught everyone to hip hop dance, it was so funny... </B></div> <div> <B>( I am a dancer and they use to make me dance all the time on the set ). Sometimes the teacher on the set would bring cool stuff</B></div> <div> <B> like geo mags or juggling sticks and we would all play, adults too. </B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>           </B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="0914afa0.jpg" border=0 width="330" height="250" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">             <IMG SRC="0924afa0.jpg" border=0 width="330" height="250" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Even though we had a lot of real serious scenes we weren't serious in between takes, we laughed a lot. One time Johnny and I were</B></div> <div> <B>filming the scene where he knocks out John Farley and and he grabs me and we escape, we were suppose to jump over the body </B></div> <div> <B>and run, well John wasn't really laying there and one time we forgot to jump and in character Johnny says hey we were supposed</B></div> <div> <B>to jump over that body Libby lets do it again... we started laughing so hard ...   Another time Eric and Deanna got all the people who</B></div> <div> <B>were supposed to be having their last dinner to do a sing a long, Daniel knew nothing about it. It was great. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>We pretty much had fum all the time, it was the best crew I have ever worked with. At one point we had 5 Johns/ Johnny/ Jon on the</B></div> <div> <B>set so we came up with nicknames... </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>The scene I had when Johnny and I were escaping and running through the mountains at night was cool, they had real snake wranglers</B></div> <div> <B> running ahead of us and made sure there weren't any snakes, I tripped a couple of times , I was wearing sandals, so Johnny carried me</B></div> <div> <B> in some of the scenes , I don't remember which they used. But it was fun and exciting.  I really got to ride in the truck for some of the scenes, </B></div> <div> <B>that was cool too, because they really had to go fast. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>On the last day of shooting it was so hard because we knew we had to say goodbye, a lot of crying, they were like my family now. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B> I have 3 projects I am working on this year into next year, 2 scary movies, one called Nightmare Carnival and one called Shrieking </B></div> <div> <B>Violet, we start early next year and a kids show called Snuggy Bear and the t shirt kids, it should be fun. I just filmed a small part in </B></div> <div> <B>a movie called All I want For Christmas and an episode of Nip/ Tuck, Thanks for asking."    ~ Saige~</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="0934afa0.jpg" border=0 width="330" height="250" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">                  <IMG SRC="0944afa0.jpg" border=0 width="330" height="250" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div>  <script language=JavaScript>  </script>  </div> </td> </tr></table></body>