Water in the Hole

Have you watched a prison escape movie recently?

They always have the inevitable escape hole.

Well, in our prison movie, Under Jakob's Ladder, we too had our own hole.

Week 3 of the film shoot. It was on a Monday (technically our "day off"). Everyone on the crew was pretty exhausted. (Our big question was why Peter [i.e. "Vovik"] hadn't been able to dig all that much with the spoon we had given him?!)

And we needed the hole by the next day. A hole deep and wide enough to stand in. Big enough to be an escape hole.

Well, that's when it's nice to have associate producers who don't shy away from having "hole digger" as part of their resume. Unlike Peter, Steve was allowed to use a shovel. Up went the dirt, down went the hole. All ready by the morning of Tuesday's shoot.

Except it rained during the night.

We had a new problem.

Now, we had to spend some time getting the water out of the hole!