i spoke a little while back about chow yun-fat in toronto filming movies, dissing the trailer to bulletproof monk, with obvious scenes from nathan philips square.

i know chow yun-fat's filmed in toronto before, because i disrupted the set of one of his other films.

1998: walking to work from college park to king/yonge. it's late morning (this was one of those internet boom jobs where no one showed up til noon, but stayed until 10pm or later) and i decided to see how much of the walk i could underground through toronto's PATH. i ended up doing this walk during rainy days, but i was still figuring out the right path to take.

after cutting through a strange sub-basement of the bay, i was completely mixed up on where i was. as opposed to backtracking, i took the first set of stairs i found to hopefully get out on the surfaceworld again.

i exit one urine-soaked stairwell through an unmarked door, into the sunlight.

20 people in black leather jackets turn to face me. i stop and quickly look around.

temperance avenue is littered with dark shiny cars and there's a tiny burst of gunfire before it's quickly halted by "CUUUTT!"

one of the leather jacket guys, who turns out to be an actor, quickly drags me into his little posse and whispers "stand here and do what we do" they're watching a scene that they'll eventually be in.

however, i'm quickly spotted by a production assistant, mostly since i'm looking far less like a blackjacketed hombre, more like that british dude from go: grey wool jacket and loud patterned shirt underneath. p.a. storms towards me and the leather jackets sidestep away from me.

she yells "how'd you get here!!!!"

i point to the door i came out from, not wanting to go back there.

she puts her walkie-talkied and bellows "who secured the area?
there's an unsecured doorway here! clear the set!" pointing at me.

i give an offhand salute and bail towards bay street, heading back to work.

i do a search to see what location i had just disrupted and find out is was the (marky) mark wahlberg/chow yun-fat the corruptor. and i was upset i didn't see chow yun-fat.

never did bother to see the movie, though; i figured that any movie set that i'd ever appear in wouldn't be worth seeing. i merely delight that i increased the budget of a production by being a nuisance.

however, this gave me an in one year later....
[stay tuned.]