I saw McGarrett today!

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Apollyon

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Producers shot a scene for the new "Hawai'i 5-0" at my hospital today. AMR had an ambulance outside, and it was a scene where the new Steve McGarrett - with a costume bullet hole in the Left shoulder - gets out of the back of the bus with a patient low Fowler's - but with a rigid collar on the neck - being removed and rolled into the hospital. However, they rolled in the front door - not the ED.

I took pictures from the office window in the ED, as that was closest. The front entrance of the hospital was still in effect, and it was funny seeing all these tiny little Asian ladies just kind of shuffling in through the scene.

Apparently, it was more than rare for "Lost" to film in the ED in which I was working today. There were a few location people for 5-0 scouting scenes. The medical director - who was on "Lost" several times - asked me if I was asked to be a guest star. I wear an aloha (or "Hawai'ian", to you mainlanders) shirt and a white coat, not scrubs, and I was laughing thinking that they might say that "that's not how doctors dress", and my response would be "umm...yes they do, because I am!"

I saw this rather nice looking Filipina-ish woman in teal scrubs, standing off to the side. I asked the clerk who she was, and she told me that she didn't work for the hospital - she was an actress. What was interesting is that she wasn't in the scene at all, and didn't make sense where she was standing.

Oh well - maybe I have a "walk on, non-speaking role" career in the offing!
 
Was an extra for 'Aloha Summer' filmed way back when I was in high school - and Chris Makepiece was still a recognizable actor. Getting a duckbill haircut for the 50's period piece, and standing in a line on the tarmac of the old Honolulu Airport waiting to get on a plane ... forever, it was 'meh'.

Jack Lord has been rumored to regress into his character and had been known to show up at MVCs and flash his costume badge and ask what's going on, and then be gently led away and driven home.