Emma's Bridgestone Tire Commercial

Emma's first commercial is here. Click on this link to see the "web movie". It will take you to the Bridgestone website where you see Emma on the home page, then click on the box in the bottom left corner that reads "playz RV movie", then click the box with the mini van outline that reads "playz RV movie". This is longer than the commercial and worth watching: http://www.playz.jp/

On the website, you hear a song called ARE YOU GONNA BE MY GIRL by Jet. I love this song, and found it funny the Japanese chose it to advertise safe tires. When filming, the studio played this song over and over again to be sure the actors really moved to the beat. I think we had this song stuck in our head for a solid week afterwards. Now when I hear it, I smile with the memory.

This show below is for the web commercial, different from the movie. Click on the "play" button.

Amazingly enough Bridgestone is the first job Emma ever auditioned for. Can you imagine trying to look natural and casual with this huge black camera only inches from your face? She acted as if she has been doing this her whole life. The crew was amazed to find out this was her first job.

Emma called Caleb her "fake brother", and she adored him. They became good friends fast. She asked me if it is normal to become best friends after only being with someone for 3 days. I told her it is very normal... ever heard of "summer love". The funny thing is that Caleb is mormon and his family attends our local temple. We have plans to get together soon.

It took 3 days to shoot... with the final day filming until 2:30am! So at 2 in the morning, Emma licked an ice cream cone to the beat of ARE YOU GONNA BE MY GIRL. I was amazed at her stamina. My favorite memory was when the director shouted "action" Emma instantaneously pasted on her happy acting face. The second the directed shouted "cut" she slumped her body into the chair and played catch with her fake ice cream cone as if it were a ball. The director then reviewed the previous cut before filming again. With one word, "action", Emma was back to her upright position with her happy smiling face pasted on. This sequence happened over and over and the crew and myself were laughing hysterically at the dramatic change Emma made between "cut" and "action". I wondered if she played it up because she knew it was making us laugh. She told me "no Mom, I really am pooped out". She was an absolute trooper... energetic until the last cut. We had a lot of fun being part of such a large production. I am proud of her!

The gal in this photo is Lisa. She was our fabulous interpreter and production manager. She kept the kids very happy! I think it was her idea to put real Haag n' daaz (sp?) ice cream on top of the fake ice cream so Emma really could enjoy licking it. Good times.