You won’t read about this in any film magazine or movie channel. This was the biggest scandal in the studio, but nobody speaks of it. This was because it did not involve any big movie star and their girlfriends, wives, or mistresses. It involved beer pong tables and gallons of beer.
Our good old big shoes star was late for a shoot. Again. We heard that he had been partying on a cruise the day before and the ship headed out in directions unplanned. He wasn’t in any apparent danger, if you were not counting the bevy of beauties on board.
The director seemed to be on the verge of a major tantrum. In the olden days, the actors threw tantrums and everyone bore them. Today, everyone has outbursts and nobody listens. We just gave each other looks, this was going to be one of those days.
Someone got beer, there’s always plenty on the sets. Everyone needs a perk now and then. Even us extras. So we sat around chatting and catching up. One of us stuck an idea. We got loads of beer and time too, why not have a game of beer pong?
We improvised beer pong tables from a couple of stage tables. I got ourselves some glasses from the catering guy. (he, by the way, also joined us later on.) We divided ourselves into four, two teams at each of the beer pong tables.
I’ve never seen a game more popular than beer pong. Actually, if I were really honest, I should say that any game that involves alcohol is extremely popular and anyone who starts it becomes instantly accepted. At that point, the beer pong tables were the place to be, like a trendy club.
So there we were, a whole crowd forming at the beer pong tables, more beer being demanded. We forgot all about the movie to be shot. The beer pong tables commanded all of our attention. It is easy to cheat when everyone’s drunk.
It went on for a good deal of time. We even talked of shifting the party to someone’s place. But by the time we got to that, everyone was too sloshed to make a move. The last thing I remember is all of shoving each other off the beer pong tables to grab a pace to sleep off the beer.
The next thing I hear is a lot of voices yelling. The director, production hands, heck, even the missing movie actor were around us. We had, as they were trying to tell us, not only slept the entire night on the set, but also used the costumes as blankets. As for the beer pong tables, they had scratches and could not be used again.
We were all bewildered. What was the problem? The tables, the clothes, or the sleeping all night? And it was the actor who got us late in the first place, why yell at us? There is no justice in the movie business, really. We were lucky that no pictures were taken. Otherwise the headline would have read:
‘Drunken Unit delays shooting’
That’s what the director said.
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