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There’s just a big difference when you’re renting your house to a situation like that, as opposed to a big crew of 15 people with heavy lights and cameras and tripods and sandbags and apple boxes, just banging around the equipment. They were hard on the house. So after she rented—she was super nice and it was super easy—I decided I wasn’t going to rent the house again. It just wasn’t right. But she was so nice that I emailed her and told her she’s welcome to come back and rent the house.
When they were doing this, I actually looked her up on IMDb. I thought, I wonder who she is. So I looked her up on IMDb and, lo and behold, she’s obviously an actress, but she had worked with a lot of filmmakers that I’ve worked with fairly recently. In fact, Tuesday Knight, who was in my film The Rideshare Killer, had just done a film, a short film, with her. And then she also did a film with a director, Bob Cabelas, who directed a film that I did called Dish Dogs back in the ’90s. I had not stayed in touch with him, and this film she did with him was just a few years ago. So I was like, oh wow, what a coincidence.
