Filming on Universal is a real trip. My dressing room is really close to the Jurassic Park ride, so every four minutes or so, this song comes on to signify the end of the ride. The Jurassic Park theme song. I thought it was really cool for, like, the first eight times, and now I’m humming it in my sleep. The trams go right by my dressing room too, which is surreal. I leave my door open when I’m inside to get fresh air going through, and I’ll look up and have tourists peering in at me like I’m some kind of lion at the zoo. And if I have sunglasses on, they’ll take pictures. They don’t even care to know who I am… they just think that if I’m wearing shades, I must be somebody. It’s pretty hilarious. When I’m really bored, I wave at them like I’m the queen. They get really confused when you wave.
In the days of yore before the Internet, the average movie goer would never have run across that dandy little gem. Instead of feeling that the curtain has been pulled aside to reveal the little man running the big scary machine, I feel more respect for the work that goes in to making a movie.
Also, it’s a little human detail. Jewel’s a person who works in the movie business. She sits in her trailer and has downtime and gets bored, and then she gets to go play and have a great time helping to tell a story. It’s more interesting than simply saying “Jewel is a young actress, maybe she’ll even be a movie star” and leave it at that.