I spent most of that morning driving around downtown Los Angeles having no idea it was no suitable place for buying Raisin Bran Crunch. They ran out of product on the shoot after one of the actors O.D.’d on it and had to be transported immediately by paramedics to the ICU of Cedars Sinai for a Niacin overdose when his blood pressure dangerously dropped. The last thing he’d heard before they took him away was that I had been the one to save his life. I’d found him nearly in convulsions in the elevator as I made my way towards my car.

“This actor is dying,” I said to Bill, holding the freight elevator door open with the entire 110-pound weight of my body.

“Well, what are you standing there for? Take him to the hospital, quick!” Bill shouted. Then he turned back and shouted to Sam and Sean across the room. “Hey! How did that last take look? Can we get a stand-in for the sick dude?”

Oh, the infinite challenges of commercial production.