The Happening Scene

The Happening scene: Joseph Tornatore with Mark Wahlberg.

Even a hard working non-union actor like myself recognizes the rarity of being captured on film. For a non-SAG carrying member, to be recognizeable in a close-up scene with a star is beating another long set of odds. Consider me lucky.

The trailer for the movie The Happening is out and its premier cannot come fast enough for this little known actor. For months, I have been sweating out making this movie's final cut. I apparently made the final cut of the movie because I appear in the promotional trailer of what sizes up to be a pivotol scene revealing "the apocalyptical event."

Pictured above: Mark Wahlberg and I are both seen looking back taking instruction from director M Night Shyamalan setting up the train scene that makes the trailer.

Here is the link to the trailer. http://www.movieweb.com/video/V08BtwyBCEFGOV

Playing train conductor J. Dropik, I make a cameo in the trailer at 1:15 seconds. I can be seen on the left side of the screen looking square-jaw while sharing the spotlight with Mark Wahlberg. I am not sure how much of my work made the final cut but the dialogue stretched for about one minute. For a couple of the takes, I started the scene holding and pointing out our middle-of-nowhere whereabouts on a train schedule.

What is now revealed about the plot is ironic for me. Man is destroying the planet and millions of bees drop dead. To think that I secretly carried my Epi-pen in my coat pocket during the days of filming in the event of a sting! M Night Shyamalan could have told me the buggers were all dead in his doomsday eco-slanted plot!

Hooray, the movie plays in theatres beginning June 13, 2008. Make it your bees wax to go see it.