"Uh, hi, I'm from the show 'Law & Order: SVU' and I was wondering if I could look at your apartment for a possible episode for the show?"
Jason was home, so I let the guy in. He was very nice, and liked our apartment. The next day a crew of 6 people, including the director, came and scoped out our apartment. For $4000, they would move all our furniture out in the living room, store it in New Jersey, block off our hallway to the bedrooms to make the apartment look smaller, and film the episode (titled, "Liberties"). We said sure. As they were leaving and the Locations Manager was leaving, I posed a concern: Our floors are the original (1860) pine, very soft, dent easily. Would there be protection for them while they did the filming? She suddenly got concerned, as there would be a ton of heavy equipment and 20-30 people in our apartment (!), and although NBC's location insurance is top-notch, would they want to go through the hassle of replacing a plank or two that got damaged?
Long story short, she never called back, and I never called her back. But isn't this story still just as crazy, even though it never ended up happening?
That is so cool that you have this awesome story, but you didn't have to go through the hassle of it ACTUALLY happening....The original wood floor? Amazing!
ReplyDeletecrazy! and how random?! but good choice to protect those floors! now tell me how you got the VIP ballet tour?
ReplyDeleteUmm, wouldn't a few more dents in the floor add more character and tell a great story? For 4k, I could deal. ;)
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