I am finally finding some time to blog about my "Divergent" week-end in Chicago on July 3rd-7th, 2013!
We chose a hotel that was 5 blocks from the filming location on Wacker Street that week-end...
and we didn't even do it on purpose!! How lucky was that!
We couldn't see much from our window, but we could easily go walk to the location
before heading anywhere else... :-)
View from our window:
On Wednesday July 3rd, we went to Michigan Avenue first where we heard
Shailene Woodley and Kate Winslet were filming.
Though we arrived there pretty late and filming seemed to be over, we took this picture of the building.
Don't know about you, but it looks exactly like I had envisioned the Erudite Headquarters...
On July 5th, we went to Wacker Street.
I thought we'd only see some extra and I was totally surprised when the first person I saw on set was
Ansel Elgort!!
I didn't know he was filming that week-end...
Kinda made a fool of myself cause I was so surprised to see him, I got really excited!
Then, whom did I see, but Tony Goldwyn.... OMG!
I couldn't believe it, and they were so close.
It was just awesome!
We left and came back a bit later and saw Shailene Woodley and Ashley Judd!
Shailene was so full of energy, jumping around on the spot. I could hear her voice... Nice! :-)
Ashley Judd just crossed the street and was right next to us, on her phone.
She looked so much like Shailene with her hair tied and dyed a lighter shade...
They'll make great mother/daughter on screen!
We came back on July 6th.
Though Ansel Elgort had sent a tweet saying he'd meet his fans outside if he could,
I missed him by ten minutes when he took a break :-(
But, I waited still outside for a while and Tony Goldwyn left the set...
He got into his van (a bunch of fans were there and didn't even recognize him...).
I looked at him when he was in the van ready to leave and I smiled at him... and he smiled back!!
Can it get any more awesome than that!?
We waited some more, in case Ansel Elgort was still there, but we missed him when he got in his van.
I didn't want to run to him and bug him when we was off of work... But it was still great seeing him again!
In case you were wondering, the extras were hanging out inside the Trump building between takes...
We also went to Clark Street, but filming was not going on yet,
but we saw a bit of the preparations for the set:
On July 7th, we stopped by Wacker Street again.
We'd heard filming was going to happen on Clark Street,
but because the previous day had been a wild goose chase, so we went to Wacker instead.
And the extras were all in costumes, walking back and forth, acting like their factions are supposed to act.
We stayed for a half-hour and then had to catch our plane.
I saw a LOT more than I had hoped to see that week-end, and it was really awesome!
