Usually, the office on a Monday is a pretty dull place. But, usually, Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz aren’t there.
Yes, today we were working alongside the Tom Cruise and the Cameron Diaz, who were filming a scene for their movie Wichita in the parking lot at the rear of our building in Boston’s Fort Point neighborhood. We spent our morning watching the Hollywood magic from the windows.
That's Cameron Diaz in the Yellow Dress
Specifically, for about 3 hours, we watched Cameron Diaz (dressed in a flouncy yellow dress, her blond hair long and lank) rush off an MBTA bus and take off down the sidwalk…
Cameron Dia running off an MBTA Bus
… followed by Tom Cruise (wearing metrosexual casual clothes, groomed, clean-cut), who is pursuing her off of the bus but not giving her chase. They repeated this over, and over, and over again, with little breaks in between during which equipment was moved and extras were shifted.
Wow. Cameron Diaz’s job is every bit as monotonous as mine.
Tom Cruise & Crew
There are much better photos on the internet of the Wichita film set (here for one), but for some reason, my crappy pictures taken from my office window feel special.
I have friends in Los Angeles and New York who chicly complain about how the presense of a film crew in their metropolis can be disruptive to their lives. But we savor these disruptions here in Boston, which is a tiny speck of a city that aspires to global importance. Of course, we’d prefer to be disrupted by stars a little less washed-up than Cruise and Diaz, but at least director James Mangold (Walk the Line, 3:10 to Yuma, Girl Interrupted) holds some promise.
IMBD has this plot summary for Wichita:
An action-comedy that begins when a small-town woman (Diaz) has a chance encounter with a mysterious man (Cruise). He is either the man of her dreams or, perhaps … her nightmares. Amid shifting allegiances and unexpected betrayals, they are swept up in a whirlwind of globe-hopping adventure and world-changing secrets.
Wow, that sounds incredibly insipid! Unfortunately, now I have to go see Wichita, just to find out how the “getting off the bus” scene turns out.
