OHEL 5770 SNEAK PEEK: Film Featurette

[Music] so Kan and a sister Mrs Mal Joseph came down to my office one day and they opened up this concept to me and I have to tell you that my initial reaction was one of wonderment uh I didn't quite understand it I've never I never heard of something like that before and we hashed it over a couple of times we got into it a little bit and I needed a little bit of time to absorb it but I was very very impressed by what I heard our script writer this malol Lea Josephs really created a an original story that fit the theme of ohill clients it really did when we talked about musical Inspirations let the journey begin this really was a journey from the beginning of this film film to the very end hi my name is Dan Brody and I played the part of Bernie calman on uh this wonderful shoot that we had that you just enjoy you know tell you a little bit about Bernie Bernie is we're finding Bernie the character at a pivotal point in his life uh here's a man who's you know achieved some success in business but at the cost of both his family uh relationships and also his spiritual growth and what we're getting an opportunity to see is really two things one of them is how Bernie meets a number of people along the way in his journey on his business trip to err and what he's Gathering from each of these individual people is not just Pearls of Wisdom they're actually actually planting seeds in his head and he's realizing from from the growth of those seeds to use the metaphor um he's realizing what is really important in life so my role ended up being Bernie's B how's it going calman great actually I was just working on some uh projections the numbers for for next month and things are things are looking they're looking up they're looking good good good well you know bring a little bit more into it than just a boss employee situation um I ended up giving Bernie a little bit of kiz before he went on his trip and reminding him about what the important priorities are in his life in terms of being in touch with his wife and children and of course I spoke about my wife a little bit who was actually my boss but remember success is in the process it's the people you meet along the way the lives that you change and those that change yours for the better thank you that's so poetic sir and like and philosophical you're like a philosopher well that's me I'm a philal server you know it's like my wife Brookie always reminds me and she's right you have to work hard to be successful but Bernie you have to remember to call your wife and kids every once in a while too have a good trip and remember to keep an open mind along the way and then of course there was a role of Leonard who is Bernie's assistant ay played by mikone who was just hysterical and that's just m that's the way he does stuff he cracked me up and I think he cracked everybody else up and he was just terrific and lended a a bit of levity to the production a little bit Leonard is a very serious person who drives the emotional part of this production through from beginning to end without you there and without Leonard there would be no oh hell okay excellent now how did you prepare for today's role what find your gr not enough you want to know how I prepared for this I was thinking of Mr Kleinman and and Rabbi cron and between the two of them that's how I came up with Leonard if you don't mind my saying you need to get involved in a little bit of Tai Chi you've been too stressed out lately I have a friend who has this cousin who knows a guy in SHO after the screenplay was written we set out to cast the film we were frankly very concerned with the casting to be able to get a troop of actors that were going to be of the caliber that we needed and be able to relate to an Orthodox Jewish audience that was something that we weren't convinced that we necessarily were going to pull off but we set out to uh create the little bios of our different characters and we put it into the secular publication and the from outlets and N seagull you know advertised on the radio that people could send in their resumes and head shots I wasn't ready for this but within 48 hours we had 500 resumés and head shot for those characters that we needed to fill our casting call was in a studio in Manhattan and we started the day first thing in the morning we went all the way to the into the evening to to listen to these uh auditions the one line that sticks out in my mind from that day is all these guys to trying to audition for the part of the Barista who works in the coffee shop and they would say Rabbi cron can I get you the usual Rabbi cron can I get you the usual hey Rabbi Crone can I get you the usual Rabbi Crone can I get you the usual Rabbi Crone okay I can I get you the usual oh Rabbi Crone can I get you the usual oh hey Rabbi Crone hey can I get you your usual Rabbi Crone can I get you the usual rabbi Crone can I get you the usual Rabbi Crone can I get you the usual Rabbi con can I get you the usual of course sure thing Rabbi after the casting was complete we set out to create our storyboards the storyboards were enormously helpful in giving us a visualization of what these actual shots would look like after we finished shooting the scene with Bernie in the office with Leonard that scene took us a little longer than we thought it was a it was a difficult scene to film and the truth is if you study it carefully you'll notice that there was no we had to shoot the entire scene in two different intervals because we couldn't put the camera behind Dan Brody playing Bernie there was just no room to have a multi camera shoot so we had to actually move all the furniture and shoot it from another angle and in the edit we kind of assembled it after we were finished I think it was about 1 or 2 p.m. we had to leave at 5:00 p.m. to catch the flight at JFK to fly aell it's kind of ironic we're filming a scene about a guy who was running off to the airport to go to Israel but that was us we actually the acting troop we had to go to Israel and our car which was actually the prop car that Antoine the driver was driving that was the car that was going to drive us to JFK but we only had like two and a half hours to shoot this scene and the last scene took us six or seven hours to shoot so uh we just had to do it we had to make it happen so John our DP started he put on his shirt like Lawrence of Arabia because it was so hot he needed to wear it like and and we got out there and we just started shooting handheld in order to make it happen the problem that we didn't anticipate was it was the day that the ice cream company decided to have their truck go around the block every 10 minutes and there was an airplane flying overhead every 12 or 15 minutes and it was constantly ruining our settime we had to actually take takes that made it into the film that had some of these extraneous noises and what could we do but it was a real challenge keeping up with all [Music] that