At one point during the shoot I would answer a ringing phone and say, “God? Is that you?” Except the phone I picked up wasn’t real. It was one of those plastic phones that toothless babies gnaw on and when I picked it up, I could smell baby spit on the mouthpiece and I slammed it down and started hollering as if the phone were on fire or like I was one of the ape-men at the beginning of “2001: A Space Odyssey.”
I must have been standing there for a long time because another of the producers poked his head around the corner and said, “Hello? Whenever you’re ready?”