Mission Mission

I hope everyone’s enjoying Pride Weekend out there in the sun. Don’t forget to drink water. Seriously. We’ve all got to do our part in this awful drought, but drink a lot of water.

The Matrix filmmakers, The Wachowski Siblings, were back in our neighborhood shooting for their upcoming Netflix series yesterday. The series includes a diverse cast from all over the world, including a transgender blogger, which may be the connection to Pride. Though from what we see here it looks like they’re highlighting two cisgender women, so maybe not? I’d hope and assume the Wachowski’s would give a trans role to a trans person. (Correction: Jamie Clayton is trans, thanks, Andy. Did some searching and somehow didn’t find that.) They certainly seem to be willing to work with the communities that in which they’re shooting, Mission Local has an article about production collaborating with CAMP to shoot in Clarion Alley.

Cristiano Valli caught some good shots of them at work during Dykes on Bikes.

Andy Wachowski on set.

Jamie Clayton getting direction from Lana Wachowski.

Jamie Clayton and Freema Agyeman taking a selfie in character.

Lana Wachowski in the zone.

With Looking, Betas and Real World: Ex-plosion now available for your viewing enjoyment, the current SF production boom continues with Diary of a Teenage Girl, now filming around town. SFist has more on it here.

Day one of The Diary of a Teenage Girl ends at sunset in San Francisco. Couldn't be better. pic.twitter.com/UZvPmHnDe4

— Jorma Taccone (@jormataccone) January 21, 2014

Interested in a walk-on? Or at least being a blurry body in the background? Here’s the call for extras:

Do you know anyone interested in being a Background extra in SF on the film ‘Diary of a Teenage Girl’?
Please put them in touch using the info below!
We especially need men with longer/shaggy hair that fits the 1970′s period – call your hippy friends!

Please have all interested email the information below to the following email:
Diary.Casting.2@GMAIL.COM

1) Name, phone & email address
2) Are you over 18 y/o ?
3) Please attach a current photo. Candid or simple cell phone ” seflie” is fine.

All you need is hippy hair and a selfie!

Scenes from set- Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. #film #sf #set #sanfrancisco pic.twitter.com/rR91bvyoWZ

— SF Film Commission (@Film_SF) July 28, 2013

Our “Apes”. #film #sf #sanfrancisco #PlanetOfTheApes pic.twitter.com/le4O8vpZSN

— SF Film Commission (@Film_SF) July 28, 2013

Great shot! RT @AlexSavidge: North Beach looks like a disaster. Luckily it’s Hollywood magic, filming scenes pic.twitter.com/3x41d9NI4y”

— SF Film Commission (@Film_SF) July 28, 2013

Meanwhile, the reviews are coming in for Blue Jasmine.