Archive for January 6th, 2008

There’s not many people who can claim to be in a movie. And there’s still an even lesser number of us who can claim to have appeared in a big budget flick. Jonathan Segal of Oceanic User Experiences is one of the few lucky locals to be forever immortalized on the silver screen.

The one movie that caused alot of hollywood hype here in Fiji due to it being filmed up at Navua, Anaconda 2: Hunt for the Blood Orchids was an average B-Grade movie which had huge snakes, dingy boats, people dying for a silly flower, and a few locals, one of them of course being Jonathan.

In his post he explains how he got himself entangled in the movie making process, from failing to recognise the director (I remember asking him “Are you involved in this movie as well?” to which he replied “Yeah, I’m the director) all the way up to the filming of the actual shot (I was a pharmaceutical executive in a New York City boardroom getting ready to send a group of people to Borneo to find the fountain of youth. I was fully in character).

The stars take a dip in one of Fiji’s lovely outdoor health spas.

If anything, it gives us an insight to the inner workings of a well oiled movie making machine, even if the movie was all popcorn and no brains, and a little more information on the one flick that put Fiji on the Hollywood map.

Original Post here.