Changes to the script have been made within the shoot as well as adding a final overt scene of racism between the Eddie and Enrique characters that was not in the last version… but this is basically it. But more on that scene later.

Getting to the internet’s a bit of a hassle as we couldn’t get it at the house, but if possible, I’d like to be able to get a final translation of the van scene from Luis for tomorrow at some point (shooting Saturday)… mainly eager to have it from Luis in order to work the material with Oliver as well, because of the value I place on the different translations.
The van scene is actually broken into different parts; a lengthier part with the Eddie, Deysi, Asunción and Alejandro characters with dialogue — and a part without dialogue in which the driver of the van passes out at the wheel and the van drives out of control.

The speediness of production must seem pushy to those not right inside it.

Yasir Rodarte shot a funny scene with us the other day and he was very good, charming and funny. This is a scene set off hours at the palapa bar with Asunción, Alejandro and Enrique. They talk trash about their boss — the formidable Concepción León Mora, as Señora Bustamante — that she wants to be the only Mexicana in Tourism with a gringo caretaker, and each reveal something in their feelings for Eddie and Kate whom they work with as well.

I wasn’t actually needed on set — no last minute revisions required of me as a writer and I was not in the scene as an actor — but went to watch because I wanted to see Yasir in action, as it was his first day with us as Alejandro. At one point I seemed to make him nervous of all things because he kept looking at me and flubbing his line — so I quickly left so as not to distract him.

We shot at the Cuzama cenotes the other day. Interesting, as we tried to get the above ground and below ground footage shot in this incredible location, as well as give every one a chance to swim in the beautiful sweet water.

We shot horses that took us between cenotes in carts along the old hennequen trails, a ground level skirmish between the Torontonian and the Texan, and a 50 foot jump from into a hole in the ground to the underground river below. (Yes it was a 50 foot jump, but we cheated it so the actor only had to jump about 25 feet.)

He lost his wardrobe mirrored Aviator shades underground.

Damn it. Now production has to spring for a new pair.
(Postscript: found a pair at the market in Progreso for 50 pesos.)
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