THE SIMPSONS NEWS – So as I Was Walking Through the Fox Studio Lot, I Saw Kevin Smith and…

The Simpsons Quote:

“Fame was like a drug. But what was even more like a drug were the drugs.” ~ Homer

As a kid, I grew up in Burbank and I saw lots of celebrities around town. Working on The Simpsons, I’ve seen my share of celebrities.

When I worked on The Simpsons Movie I saw a few more, to add to my collection.

This time around I saw Kevin Smith and I’ll tell you what happened this week.

You can hear my story  by watching the video or you can read the story below.  It’s the same story either way:

Walking to the Parking Lot I Saw…

I worked on The Simpsons movie on storyboards in the story department. I actually had to drive down to the Fox lot everyday and worked there.

That in itself was a bit of an adventure. There’s so many stories and so many things that happened there, that I can talk about.

So here’s one of them. One really small one so it’s going to be a very short post.

So, we’re in a movie studio, and sometimes actors or celebrities that we’re familiar with, walk around.

One night, a friend of mine and I were leaving. We were headed to our car.

It was nighttime and it was dark.  As we were walking to the parking lot. I happen to look up ahead and see an actor director that I recognized, Kevin Smith.

Now, I’m not one of the these people who like to approach actors or celebrities. It’s just not one of my things. I’m generally, a shy person and I also don’t like to bother people.

But I do get a kick from seeing celebrities,

“Hey, there’s so and so,” then I can say to people, like I am right now, “Hey I saw Kevin Smith.”

The Loud Whisper

So I was walking with my friend and as we were talking I whispered,

“Hey, there’s Kevin Smith.”

He turns to me, “Huh?”

“I said, there’s Kevin Smith,” and as I say this we’re getting closer to him.  He frowns at me,

“What?”

In a loud whisper as start repeating, “Kevin Smith, there’s Kevin Smith, Kevin Smith. Kevin Smith is over there. Kevin Smith.”

“What? I can’t hear what you’re saying,”

So I blurt out, “THERE’S KEVIN SMITH!” and at this point we’re right next to the guy. Of course then he looks right at us. I mean I just yelled out his name.

It was so embarrassing, I didn’t know what to do. I just had to walk with my head down. Trying to cover my face, “don’t mind me, just passing through.”

Uh, Yeah…

It was so ridiculous and so…right out of a Kevin Smith joke.

Yeah, so that’s my story. It’s one of my, “here’s what happened as I was working on The Simpsons movie, anecdotes.”

Has something like this ever happened to you? It’s just embarrassing.

After that I turned to my friend,

“Look what you made me do!” I don’t like calling attention to myself and it was embarrassing and I’m sure Kevin Smith could care less and doesn’t even know it happened and it doesn’t bother him.

But it’s funny and embarrassing at the time. I knew right then that I had a story to tell.

I hope you liked my story.

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