8/22/2005 - 511/512 Shooting Information

 

Yesterday the executive producer posted on  Degrassi.tv a little bit of information on the shooting of episodes 511 and 512. First he stated tht they are just finishing shooting them this week before shifting to Instant Star for a while. Than today he posted a bit more about the episodes. First of all the rumors were true, these are the episodes that Kevin Smith and Jason Mewes will appear in during season 5. He also says that Deanna Casaluce's character Alex is going to be featured heavily in these episodes and she is doing a great job. He also tells a story of Kevin and Jason missing there flight to TO. And mentioned today they did a read through of 514 and 515. As a side note someone asked if a myspace account was actually Mike Lobel's and he confirmed it was.

His full posts are below:

"We're just finishing up 511/512 (Lexicon of Love Parts 1 and 2), then we shift over to Instant Star on Wednesday and shoot four episodes of Instant Star before returning to Degrassi! (Amongs other things this means that a lot of the Degrassi cast can prepare for and go back to school while we're on a Degrassi shooting hiatus)."

and

"I spoke with Mike Lobel today and yes that is his myspace. Chatted with Deanna Casaluce as well, these episodes are big ones for her character Alex and she is doing gerat work--and they are the ones that Kevin Smith and Jason Mewes are in this year--yes they're back in town but having missed their flight yesterday they had to take the red eye from L.A., arrived in Toronto at 6:00am this morning, were picked up by Jim Jackman and driven directly to the studio to start prepping for shooting today--but even without a night's sleep they were still very funny, and we had a good long chat about the potential Degrassi movie as well!!

Oh and today we had a read-through of episodes 514 and 515, Stephanie Cohen showed Miriam a TV Guide fashion spread featuring Miriam which looks FANTASTIC, and we heard first-hand about how Adamo and Andrea didn't arrive in San Fran till 11:00am Saturday (because of tornadoes in Toronto), drove thru the fog to the autograph signing and so ended up not being able to see very much of San Francisco at all--which was disappointing but he said they still had a wonderful time and were given some great gifts!"
Source: Degrassi.tv