Angelina

So let me set the scene.

Today Angelina Jolie was in Penn Quarter on the corner of 7th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue in DC (right across from work!). She was filming a sprint scene this morning where she runs across the street and through the small park right next to the Archives metro station. They shot the scene a few times and before each shot, she ran in place to get warmed up. She was doing all of the stunts herself but her stunt double was walking her through everything.

The cars in the street were not real traffic though. They were props! After each scene was cut, all the cars backed up and got ready for the next shot. All of this required the real traffic on Pennsylvania Avenue to be halted, and soon drivers started beeping horns like crazy, and so then the director (or whoever) stopped shooting and let the traffic through, then set up to shoot the same scene again.

It was fun to watch! I never did get that close to her (ten yards away at one point) but most of these shots were taken with me about 20 or 25 yards away. The crew kept the crowds at bay. She did sign a few photographs at one point but I just couldn't get that close. But it was all cool to see.

My impression: she is tiny! I always thought that she was tall (at least 5' 9" - tall by my standards) but she is 5'5" tops. And scrawny! Somebody really needs to order her a cheeseburger.

In the picture below you see her laughing with [co-star] Liev Schreiber in between takes.

And finally, there was a paparazzi there today with a gigantic telephoto lense. I realized these paparazzi dudes totally know what they are doing because his pictures are way better than mine! He was running around the whole time getting shots from different angles though. You can see his pictures here.

And here are more paparazzi shots including one of her coming up the Archives metro escalator! So she must have been coming up the escalator while we were all "held" underground.