I completed a small film called Redemption Lost on Saturday. I played the lead in a Depression-era story about a moralistic family man who, out of desperation, finds himself working for the wrong kind of people. As the film starts, he decides he's had enough and starts on a mission to hand over the papers to the authorities but things don't go exactly as planned.

We shot the film on the Universal Studios backlot. I'd been on the backlot a couple of times before but had never actually filmed there. We were in one of the NYC sections, around the corner from the Back to the Future clock tower (currently unrecognizable) and several other noteworthy sets. It's an amazing use of real estate because there are so many places to film where you'll get entirely different looks and feels.

As you might guess, it was quite warm in the Los Angeles summer weather of July. Our set was located on one of the tram routes so every three minutes or so, a tram full of people would pass by and wave and take scads of photos -- hoping that they'd catch a glimpse of someone recognizable (there wasn't). It's a bit strange to think that your photo could possibly end up in hundreds of scrapbooks -- or more likely trash cans -- across the country. Talk about surreal . . .