I had the pleasure of working with some Hollywood power players on Friday night and I can’t say enough how nice they all are! It’s rare to have “A-List” talent that are actually easy to work with. The movie is called The Joneses and I play one of Steve (Duchovny) and Kate’s (Moore) friends. The Joneses will be in theaters in 2009. The writer/director is Derrick Borte and this is his first major project and he deserves kudos for assembling a great cast and even better atmosphere on the set. 

Steve Barnes & Demi Moore

Demi Moore was awesome and a sweetheart. She turns 46 on Tue (11/11) but you would have a hard time pinning that many years on her. She easily looks 30 as you can see from the photo above. She was very fun to work with and very engaging. We talked about everything from her daughter, Rumer, acting on the neighboring “Army Wives” and also CSI soon…to how brutal the tabloids are to stars these days. She was a very bright presence on the set and we had a blast doing the scene. All I could picture was Demi in Indecent Proposal in my head…that’s the Demi burned in my head.

Steve Barnes & David Duchovny

David Duchovny, while a bit more reserved, was just as fun. After spending 8 hours knee to knee on a couch, I can tell you that he is a cool as can be. I never watched X-Files, I am more of a Californication Duchovny fan (That is a killer show). He was very laid back and fun to do the scene with as we riffed on the dialog never doing it the same way twice. Sometimes directors hate when you do that, but some funny stuff was coming from it so it was all good. We all know that Duchovny has a lot going on in his personal life, but he didn’t let it effect him on the set as he was a cool pro.

Gary Cole

Gary Cole plays The Joneses’ next door neighbor. You know this guy because he has been in EVERY THING ON THE PLANET! Check out his IMDB page and you’ll recognize him from several things you forgot he was in. What a GREAT guy!! He was nicer than nice to EVERYONE and a very likable guy. He was as down to earth as you can get, chatting with everyone from the crew, the (real) neighbors around the set and everyone in between. We sat around and chatted for hours about everything from working in Austin on Office Space to his current role on Entourage. I did get some scoop…he’ll be back on Entourage next season!! (shhhhhhh).

When you have that level of “talent” around a set it is usually anything but smooth. These 3 are a great example of how it should be on a movie set as they are some of the nicest in the business. As for the movie, I feel it has a vibe like American Beauty and should be pretty cool when it comes out to the big screens in 2009.