breaking up the blog jam

Hi Everyone,

Sorry it’s been so long.  There’s been so many things I’ve wanted to share with you, but then life ran away with me.  And I’m sorry to say that I can’t see my blog visitations improving much until after the end of January.

So, here it is an abbreviated update:

*We finished shooting Bomb Girls.  It was an odd feeling.  In the old days, when I would finish a show, we would be well and truly finished.  Movies are like that.  You do it, you have a great or horrible time, at the end of the shoot, you all promise to keep in touch but that rarely happens, and then you go your separate ways.  On to work on new shows, or to tuck back into your cozy/or not so cozy life, dealing with the day to day and all the stuff you let slide when you were working crazy 12-18 hour days.

But on Bomb Girls, we were left open ended.  Everyone loved how the show turned out, the set, the costumes, the cinematography, the direction, the editing, the acting.  The network (Global) couldn’t be more supportive and enthusiastic.  They are putting everything and then some behind Bomb Girls and yet…who knows what will happen?  No one took the easy route, that’s for sure.  They could have placed the show in that vague, blurred edges of that mystical never-never land that is some-nameless-place-some-where-in-North-America.  It would have been easier to sell, for sure. 

But they didn’t.  The producers, Adrienne, Michael, Janice, Michael P., Wendy, and the Global contingent, stuck to the brave choice and decided this Canadian story, would be Canadian. 

Doesn’t seem like a milestone, but it is.  I heard a rumour, don’t know if it’s true, that Bomb Girls is the first time they’ve run a Canadian Drama series in Prime Time.

Hmmm… just realized, I was going to do an abbreviated version of all my news.  Ahem…

I have a husband waiting for together time and I told him I was only going to be a second, so I’d better get back to blogging more efficiently. 

*Bomb Girls will air Wednesday, January 4th 2012 here in Canada on Global TV at 8 PM.  It will play for six Wednesdays running.  I think (I’m smiling kind of proudly here) that it’s a real good show!

And I know I didn’t finish the thought of leaving at the end of the shoot open ended, but that is a longer explanation that I have time for so I’ll try to sneak away from my work and explain it at some later date… Sorry about that.

*My sister, Becky, is a wonderful artist, who, for her 50th birthday decided to share some of her art with the world.  She has a website if you would like to check out some of her work.  I am the proud owner of several Becky Tilly paintings.  They are in my writing room and inspire me every time I sit down at my desk.  (She has done some amazing sculptures as well, but they aren’t up on her site.) 

*It is going to be a quiet Christmas this year.  Will’s with his dad’s family and Emily’s staying in New York.  However,  Amy and David will be here and that will be nice, and when they come over they bring Bella, their/Emily’s dog, and so it’s a melding of life now and memories of before all intermingled.

*I’ve been getting recognized a lot.  It’s funny, I didn’t realize how many people actually attended Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf this summer.  I’m quite touched by all the people who have come up to me, telling me how moved they were, how much they loved the show.  Surprised me, the response.  I figured, a little show, zip in, zip out. 

Didn’t expect to be a public person again.  Didn’t realize how much I had been able to disappear.  How nice it was to schlep around in my old sweats and unbrushed hair.  Makes me feel a little cautious.  Global is running ads for the show.  People are seeing them.  Is it going to be okay this time?  The being looked at, the being known? 

Hope so.  Things are different now.  I’m older, hopefully wiser.  Don’t have small children anymore whose safety I need to be concerned about.  My children are grown, flown far and wide.  It’s just me and Don that it effects and he’s fine with it.  Doesn’t seem to be getting grouchy about the interruptions. 

And who knows?  Maybe no one will watch the ads and tune into the show?

A small part of me, the stick-my-head-in-the-sand, and fairies are real, thinks maybe that is what will happen and gets hopeful about it and daydreams about turning the clock back and disappearing back into my rabbit hole again.  But I don’t see how that is possible.  The show is really good.  Something I believe the entire cast and crew can be very proud of.  And I want people to love it, to see, to feel what we felt in making it.  To feel the passion, and beauty and complexity of this show, these characters, this situation that we brought to life. 

So, there is a tiny part, maybe six percent, that hopes the show slips quietly away, but then there is the ninety-four percent that is fiercely proud of all that we’ve done, what we made and wants the whole world to see it!

*The reason I’m slacking so badly on my blog side of things is I have a script that is due at the end of January.  People (nice people who I don’t want to let down) were already kind enough to agree to wait until I shot Bomb Girls to finish up the script and so I’m really going hell-bent-for-leather (whatever that means?) and then throw in Christmas preparations and hence, my lack of blogging and this lapse will probably continue until I deliver the script.

*I’m sure there are other important things that need to be blogged about, but I’ve already gone WAY over the promised, “Just a second, honey,“ so I’m off!

* Happy Holiday Wishes to All of You! xo

*Hey, I just thought of something else!  I’m going to write to Grace (Global publicist extraordinaire) and see if maybe she could email me some of the artwork from the show and I can post it here. 

Um… I’d better do that tomorrow though.  Don’s been more than patient.  Bye!

Posted by Meg Tilly on Sunday, December 18, 2011 in Chewing the Fat