hi i'm jennifer garner and i'm edgar
ramirez
and this is everything we did in a day
on the set up yesterday
hi i played allison torres and i am a
mom of three
i'm carlos torres i'm married to allison
i am the father of three for the car
wash day
um i got up probably 4
45 or 5. i got i got up
at 4 45 as well the days were short
then and that the sun was setting kind
of early and so
we needed every bit of daylight because
we had to shoot the whole scene in one
day so i know we started
super early that day we needed to get it
done before sunset and
we were also working with kids so the
days were even shorter
my alarm is just the alarm sound on my
iphone
my alarm is
i mean feel free to cut it out if you
need to but um
marvin gray's sexual healing
that is the sound from my alarm
i just love it's a very soothing song
first thing i do is hit snooze
the first thing i do is i hit snooze
for another 15 minutes and i have my
clothes
everything on a chair so i get
i mean it's like i prepare everything
the night before so that i could be
ready like a little kid going to school
you have it all laid out on the chair
exactly exactly right because you put it
on first
it is exactly what i did exactly
as i did when i was going to school as a
kid back in venezuela
normally when you go to when you go to
school you you wear uniform
right and then i would i would leave my
uniform on a chair
next to the bed so that i would you know
jump in my clothes and then have more
time to snooze
so that is exactly what i did during
yesterday i had my uniform and you know
that i have a uniform
i have three track suits that i used
throughout the whole shoot
and that was my uniform that's right
you're deciding you said i need some
cozy clothes to come to set
what should i do and i think they said
lemon right
and you came you were like religiously
so i probably quickly read through the
news took a shower and
i have a coffee maker that's an alarm
and it um grinds the beans
to the amount of water you have and i
could hear it going off and
that's what actually pulls me out of the
bed and gets me in the shower we
would get there way before the kids so
i'm sure yeah
by six not later than six we were never
in the chair
the makeup chair before six right sorry
after six
yeah and then we'd have like the eye
things on to take away the puffiness of
the circles and
we definitely had um we both left coffee
a lot so
there was a serious flow of coffee
coming into that hair and makeup trailer
yes
of course coffee always espresso
espresso for
edward and that day we had waterproof
makeup put on
remember it wasn't our typical makeup
they had they had bought they bought
waterproof makeup for that day
makeup for me super super quick but that
is the longest that i took because i had
like the
blue you know like mask on so
that was more like an hour and a half to
do to a two-hour look i've been working
with the same hair and makeup people
forever and so they're really good at
working together
but it's definitely i have ponytails and
they're curled
and then i had glitter and um
this crazy makeup on my face and it the
fun thing is it's the same makeup artist
who did 13 going on 30 and it feels
just like when she was doing that makeup
for me it was a it's a solid couple of
hours
i usually work i make a lot of phone
calls um
at the time i think i was in the middle
of a big push
and um for kids and i i was calling
senators from the makeup chair
i sleep i sleep
i sleep that's what i do you know i said
hi hi
hi everybody let me just keep sleeping
we would go to set we'd have
everything set up so by the time we had
the
the youngest everly um who played our
youngest daughter
and by the time she was there everything
was really dialed in so that we didn't
waste any you know kids have a lot to
have shorter hours
so we didn't waste a minute so we would
go to set with her stand in
and um you know check out what it was
going to be and the first thing we did
that day were establishing shots in the
car
driving to into the car wash scene that
probably takes
up to an hour and a half we probably
didn't even have everly in the car
it was probably for sure a stand-in and
maybe even a stand-in for julian as well
probably by the time we finished the
establishing shot it was
around 10. it was definitely mid-morning
we had already gone through
you know we probably had an extra coffee
run we were
all gearing up and excited for the car
wash and nervous because it was cold we
were shooting this in la's winter
which isn't obviously frigid but it was
cold it was a cold day
then we shot probably they attached
cameras to the car
and they would attach them to one side
of the car
and they'd shoot over me to edgar and
then they would move
everything around attach the other side
of the car shoot over edgar to me
and then before we went into the car
washing we all stopped and put on
wetsuits
because once we started going through
the car wash we were shooting it
so we needed to make sure the kids are
handing us
snorkels and goggles and we needed to
really make sure that we had that down
pat
because a take doing a second take
meant stopping drying everything drying
our hair redoing our makeup and getting
totally ready again from scratch
and it was very cold and the water was
cold so
you know it was fun i mean we used it
but it was but it was very chilly it was
very cold edgar do you remember everly
got scared
she got scared poor thing i mean we got
scared i mean
now let alone poor everly she got scared
of course she was it was
sweet emily got scared and we were all
talking because we said oh no
she's only done one time through we have
one take of her
we're going to need her again and so she
got back in the car for a second take
she said she wanted to do it she got
back in the car and then
right as we got to the water she started
crying and she said no no no i don't
want to
and so we stopped and we cut yeah
exactly you know what's very scary
i think when when you use goggles
and and water is coming at you for the
first time like you put the goggles and
then you have all the water coming and
you don't see anything
but still it was quite quite shocking
and the bubbles that are coming in and
you get soap in your mouth and but um if
you're a grown-up and you know that it's
silly and you're just doing it a few
times
it's hilarious and even for the older
kids it was hilarious but for a little
five-year-old she was terrified
we did something that day called french
hours where
it's a 10 hour shooting day and you take
a break when you can
but you don't have a specific everybody
at once
lunch break so then we we all ate like
in our
in our little hotel rooms and i think
ecker we probably found each other after
we ate and hung out a little bit and
then i think
the kids had to fit school in on either
side
yeah that's true yeah yeah every day
yeah they had school
hours it's true because jenna put
herself through school and graduated
from high school
while we were making the movie actually
yeah we had a little party
for for her graduation not that day no
no no
towards the end of the shoot yeah okay
that day after we got everything at the
car wash
um we just had a a
a different kind of establishing shop
and so we did like
one final shot of the day where it was
um edgar me jenna and a couple of
standards behind us
all cleaned up and that was it at five
yeah we wrapped yeah we shot as
chronologically as possible right
yes and then we didn't shoot the day
really
in in order because of getting wet yeah
the whole thing
we spent a lot of time just hanging out
with the kids between
setups as well and just being in our
chairs hanging out with kids or playing
with them or
seeing what they were up to and their
photo doubles and we hang out a lot i
mean we
we talked a lot yeah with the kids and
also between jennifer and i
and actually jennifer taught me you know
how to get
organized so i got my book you know
um with you know different this
three different things you know for for
different you know um
for different categories and um and then
i have a combination between my phone
and the book
and that's all because of jennifer
gartner she basically was my tutor she
gave me tutorials on how to get
organized
i really did he was my constantly what
are you doing what's
in that book what are you writing down
what's in that like what are you doing
over there and i was like edgar i have a
company i work for save
i have i'm producing this movie i have
like guys three kids i'm dealing with
like
but it was fascinating it was
fascinating to see her you know because
i mean of course i mean she's so
multitasking that she can be writing
checking talking to the director talking
to you answering my questions
you know because like you know i just
wanted to i just wanted to see how
she because i wanted to learn it's like
i need that i need that system
i'm able to do all these things because
i'm very organized anyone who wants to
know i'll be teaching a master class
after shooting i would go straight to to
to work out i was going to the gym at
the time i mean it was too cold to be
outside
and then i would go either home or
normally i would go home or if i had
another commitment then that's why i was
asking jen
about what is the nice like what is the
perfect combination between
like leisure like you're you're
comfortable but you're also dressed
enough to
go to dinner you know personal
commitment
be the expert on a day-to-night wear
day-to-night look but you know i'll take
it i'll take i'll take
any credit for you being as handsome as
you are at garbage and
yeah that would be my routine and then i
would go home because then we would have
to
start all over again you know like when
you need it and for me sleep is the most
is one of the most important things you
know and and especially when you're when
you're shooting
and it was for me it was the first time
that i did that i did a comedy
you know so it's uh it's no joke
doing a comedy you know it's no joke i
mean it's a lot of work and it's very
you know it's a very serious it's a very
serious job because it's all about the
music and it's all about
the you know snappiness so to speak i
mean you need to snap and to really
be on top of your game the whole time
once them wrapped i
would run home and i mean this movie was
heaven because we
did go so early that i'd be home for
dinner and help with
you know help with homework and then for
um
to put my kids to bed it was kind of the
best
possible version of making a movie we
were
in la i could put my kids to bed and
then i would look at the next day's work
and crawl into bed myself
if i waited my daughter out i'd be up
till 10
and if i just couldn't then i would
i'd beat her to bed and i'd be in bed by
you know i'd get my second daughter to
bed probably like
9 30. same i just i just tried
to not not be in bed later than 10 p.m
try you know sometimes you know but
ideally 10 p.m
so and that was everything we did on the
set on yesterday edgar
we did it we did it