Writing this now on Saturday night in El Hoyo — we really love it here, and owe Luis Esparza and Antonio Prieto another debt of gratitude for introducing us to the place.
El Hoyo — The Hole — is a cool casual net cafe-restaurant-bar in Mérida Centro. It is the kind of place an old friend of my dad would refer to as bohemian and louche. I think I love it for these reasons and because I refer to my own old fixer-upper house as The Pit, so no wonder I love The Hole.
Not only did Luis and Antonio introduce us to this place, they also gave us Yasir, who we met for the first time here. (He is truly a delight and sweet and funny and a wonderful performer, very light on his feet). And when we come into the city from the pueblo, El Hoyo is now Command Central! Everyone here acts like they know us now, which of course we love.
Shot with Conchi today and she was GREAT. Chris said Wow the Mexican actors are giving the Canadians a spanking!
Ha. He does like to keep us all on our toes…
Excited to be here tonight. We’re shooting the scene where the Canadians have just arrived, and after not finding the missing Eddie in Cancun, their search is directed to Mérida. They wander the streets during Carnavale, watch as they lose Dave to being seduced into dancing in the street, and go to the address of Alejandro, last with Eddie. He isn’t there, but when a woman, Ramona, sees them she offers assistance.
Off Eddie’s photo, Ramona asks Pete to follow her… he loses Dave and Zoe in trying to keep up with her, and let’s just say it all ends in a skirmish involving a frying pan…
Now the wonderful Ariadna Medina, another local actress who will play Ramona, is getting ready with that frying pan… Poor brave Rob Fulton!
(Postscript: Braver than we thought. I watched from across the street as the police watched Ariadna lead Rob down dark streets in her heavy make up, with her sassy-assed walk and like all great low-rent, no-budget producers who have gone before me I thought: Oh God, they’re going to think she’s a hooker. Luckily I was wrong, they were just average beat cops interested in la mordida, and letting us know they were in charge — Ariadna charmed them completely, leaning into their car, smoking, referring to it all as a student lark, waving it off… they settled for telling us we could finish that shot, that was it, then move on. So we did, but it was of course the hero shot of the night.
Which we had to get in one take. Sigh.)
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