Another Op'nin', Another Show....

Gigantic officially opens in NYC today. It has a two-week run at the Village East Cinema.

I have, like, two lines and 45 seconds in this film. But it's my first movie, so I'm proud. Hope y'all get a chance to see it.

Upcoming cities here, including LA on April 17.

It's Official . . .

My appearance on Heroes (a.k.a. "Redacted") will be Monday evening, April 13.

And just a reminder for those of you in New York: my first feature, Gigantic, opens Friday April 3 at the Village East Cinema. It appears, however, that it will only have a two-week run, so mark your calendars!

Other cities' opening dates for Gigantic can be found here.

Two Items of Note

1. I have confirmed with the producers that I made the final cut in Gigantic (yippee!), despite my absence from the cast and crew page on the website. Apparently I wasn't the only one left off, so I'm a little less offended. A reminder that Gigantic opens April 3 in NYC and April 17 elsewhere.


2. My episode of Eleventh Hour (remember Tom, the painfully shy neighbor creepy doorman?) was apparently on the fast track. It is scheduled to air Thursday night, March 12, at 10pm on CBS. Set those DVRs!

I was going to upload a bonus picture that I forgot the other day, but Blogger is not cooperating. So next time, I guess.

GIGANTIC Trailer Released

This is a trailer from the film Gigantic, a movie I shot in Brooklyn last March. It stars Paul Dano (the crazy preacher kid in There Will Be Blood), Zooey Deschanel, John Goodman, Ed Asner, and Jane Alexander. Also Clarke Peters, who portrayed Lester Freamon on The Wire, and who my scene was with. Meeting him was pretty much awesome.

I still don't know if I made the final cut, but it looks like it'll be a fun flick.

It premieres in NYC on April 3, and in Los Angeles two weeks later on April 17. So some of you will probably find out if I'm in the movie before I know myself!

(Requires Quicktime. Get it here. Also, what's loading is the larger, 40MB trailer, because I want you to actually be able to see peoples faces 'n stuff. If you don't feel like waiting, and want to see a smaller version, click here.)

Rinse and Repeat.

"Hey, I just overheard you say you moved here from Brooklyn? We just did too."

"Oh my God, there are so many people from Brooklyn here!"

"Where did you live in Brooklyn?"

"Park Slope/Fort Greene/Carroll Gardens!"

"Yup! Us too. And where do you live now?"

"Silver Lake/Los Feliz/Echo Park."

"Us too. Quite an adjustment, huh?"

"Yeah. I'm really not used to the driving/flakiness/sprawl/driving/plastic surgery ads/smog/driving yet. But we love going to Intelligentsia/Pazzo/Gingergrass. And you can't beat the weather/beach/sunsets. Plus, the produce out here is to die for."

"Do you come to this farmer's market every weekend?"

"We like this one a lot, but sometimes we go to the Hollywood/Plummer's Park/Glendale one."

"And what brought you here from Brooklyn?"

"Work."

[ed note: no one says, "I'm an actor" here]

No One Here is From Here

Went to a pot-luck dinner party in Silver Lake last night, which felt wonderful, because it was actual interaction with a lot of people. And yummy food. I made a couple dozen gyoza (thanks for the recipe, Cy!).

Silver Lake is a kind of hipster/trendy-but-still-affordable nabe just east of Hollywood....kind of like Fort Greene or the LES. Granted, it may not be indicative of the LA population in general. But here's where everyone was from last night (i.e., where they grew up, or where that had spent most of their adult life before coming to LA):

• Brooklyn (Park Slope)
• Seattle
• Palm Springs
• another Seattle
• Brooklyn (Sheepshead Bay)
• "Orange County" (town never learned)
• Brooklyn again! (Fort Greene)
• San Diego
• Ohio (hello, outlier!)
• SF Bay area
• Brooklyn (Gowanus...that would be me)

Try to spot the native-born Angelino.

Oops, there isn't one.