So in the past week, I've seen three celebrities and met two of them.
What?
This is coming form the girl who always complains about a lack of adventure, that nothing cool ever happens in my sleepy hometown. Which I guess is still true, since I didn't actually see these three guys in my hometown exactly. It was all in Ohio, however, which is still pretty impressive, considering nothing ever happens in Ohio either.
Both sightings were honestly a combination of pure luck and expert creeping skills. Emphasis on the creeping skills.
The first sighting was last Monday, when my friend and I were loitering around the set of Captain America. They're filming in Cleveland, not far from where I live, so I've been down to the various filming locations in the past few weeks. But this time we got really lucky; one of the crew members we were chatting with informed us that Chris Evans himself was in the building. Hoping to get a glimpse of him, we waited around for 45 minutes or so across the street. We weren't disappointed.
He came out of the building with his girlfriend Minka Kelly, the chick who plays Autumn in 500 Days of Summer. They got into a car, heading off to a different location. To the surprise of the 15 or so people that had been waiting with us across the street, the car stopped alongside our side of the street and Chris opened the door to give a few autographs.
Unfortunately he only had time for a few, and we were unable to get close enough to get one. I did get an awesome picture of him with my friend's phone, and we were literally about 5 feet away from him. I heard his voice and everything. Needless to say, my friend and I were freaking out.
Thus ended sighting #1. #2 was just as exciting, maybe even more so because I actually met these next two guys.
Remember my past blog post about Whose Line is it Anyway? and seeing the Colin and Brad show later this year? Well the day finally came. On Saturday, we headed over to Lakeside Chautauqua to see their Two-Man Show, a show I'd been excited about since January.
I've never laughed so hard in my life. Their show was about two hours long, and I seriously laughed the entire time. I know people always use that phrase flippantly, but at the end of the show I realized I'd been smiling the entire time due to the fact that my cheeks felt like they'd been stretched out like Silly Putty.
They played great games, including attempts at Spanish accents (which eventually turned into Russian) during Moving Bodies; hamsters that eat their own poo during an audience-aided Fill-In; a fart-filled Sound Effects; a Sherlock Holmes inspired Kick It in which Colin made Brad rap for almost 2 minutes straight; and the dangerous but hilarious Mousetrap Game in which Brad had stolen Colin's world famous granola recipe. That night was the hardest I've laughed in...well, longer than I can remember. And it was so nice to just let loose for a while. The rest of the audience was laughing as hard as we were, so I obviously wasn't the only one who found them absolutely fucking hilarious.
Anyway, after the show we asked if they were going to come out for autographs. We were informed they were not, since they had a early plane to catch in Cleveland. Undeterred, my friend Rachel and I creepily waited outside the backstage area, watching the door we figured they'd come out of eventually. About a half an hour later, we were about to give up, when a long white limo pulled up beside us. Rachel and I started freaking out, and not 10 seconds later out they came.
We all introduced ourselves and asked if we could have a picture with them. They were both super sweet and actually a lot taller than I thought they'd be. Brad PUT HIS ARM AROUND ME and now I have photo evidence of this night which makes me happier than Tiny Tim at Christmastime. We chatted with them for a bit, but the conversation that took the cake was when my mom decided it would be a good idea to inform Colin that I watched Whose Line online all the time (she thankfully didn't mention the fact that I've obsessively seen every episode). He looked kind of surprised and quipped, "Give her a book!"
I almost peed myself because I almost always have my nose in a book; it's rare to find a time when I'm not reading at least one book. Obviously he didn't know this so he didn't find it as funny as I did, but it was one of my favorite moments of that night. Laughing, I managed to reassure him that I do read and not all my time is spent on Youtube.
We said goodbye and that they were fantastic one more time, and then we parted ways. As they drove away in their fancy limo I reflected on the fact that I had met not one but two celebrities in the same week, and I had seen not two but three also in the same week, and I thought that maybe living in Ohio isn't so bad after all. For now, at least :)
