Here is another crazy experience that happen several years back and perhaps you can see the stress that we had to deal with, its a funny story to tell, but at the time we were all freaked out!
A model from Los Angeles applied. He was really good-looking, he kind of looked like
Logan but with blonde hair and I was super excited to film him for
Broke Straight Boys I was actually going to pair him up with Tyler.
Tyler arrived early in the day and later that day this model was arriving. I asked Tyler if he wanted to come with me to the airport, and he was willing to go for the ride and was excited to see this model as well.
We got to the airport and this guy comes off the plane and we meet him in the baggage area and he was annoying other fellow passengers from his flight. He noticed me with my sign that reads D&E PRODUCTIONS and comes towards Tyler and myself. This guy was so strung out and was shaking and bouncing all over the place and super hyper. Both Tyler and I knew something was wrong with this guy. He got his bags and we proceeded back to my town home.
As we got out of the airport, Tyler whispers in my ear that the guy is strung out and is on meth or coming down from meth. I said, "Tyler, how do you know the guy is on meth?" Tyler response back, "Watch he's going to ask for a menthol cigarette." It didn't take 2 seconds thereafter and this guy asked for a menthol cigarette. I couldn't believe it and Tyler just looked at me and smirked with sarcasim.
At the time Tyler did smoke cigarettes but not menthol so he offers the guy a cigarette and they smoked. After smoking we all got into the car and started driving.
Tyler was sitting in the passenger seat and I was driving and this guy was in the back looking outside from the car window, speaking softly repeating and chatting, "Oh! fast cars, fast cars...roller coaster up & down, up & down". Like some kind of crazy person. We tried to start conversation and he went on to tell us that our government is part of the transformers and that the government is going to control us and other countries by having the transformers take over the world and he kept on going with this conspiracy theory about the transformers and our government. Both Tyler and I couldn't help it and we start laughing, we just couldn't help it.
This guy got so offended that he started yelling and telling us off and screaming in my car and calling both Tyler and I names. By this time, we were approaching my home and I slammed on the breaks and I turned around and looked this guy in the eyes and basically told him that if he doesn't stop it and if he continues to act like this, I'm turning the car around and bring him back to the airport and dropping his ass off and leaving him at the Ft.Lauderdale airport to figure it out!
I quite down for a moment and continue arguing with me, screaming at me, "your not my Mother, you can't threaten me, who do you think you are?" So we pulled up into my drive way, and I told him before he gets into my house he better chill out, Tyler gives him another cigarette and as Tyler and I go into my home, he's out side smoking. I immediately called Eddie and told him the story and Tyler refused to work with this model. Eddie in the meanwhile was at the supermarket with Dustin (Andrew) on his way home. As the boy starts to walk into my home, Eddie and Dustin was right behind him with Eddie asking this guy in a firm voice, "what the hell is going on with you". Tyler breaks down and tells Dustin and Eddie the whole story and this guy turns to Eddie and goes in a very calm voice and normal attitude and tells Eddie, "I have NO clue what these guys are talking about, they are making up the whole story." He was making us out like we were the crazy ones. Both Tyler and I were like, Hell no!!! But Eddie didn't take sides and we threw the guy out and Dustin took his bag and Eddie escorted him outside and place this guy into the car and drove him back to the airport leaving him there at Ft.Lauderdale to figure it out, never hearing from him again!
We did find out that he got home safe and left on a flight stand-by within a few hours of us dropping him off so no worries. This was one of our crazier moments we had to deal with and unfortunately we couldn't film him. It was scary at the time, but its a great fun story to tell and we laugh about it now.
