Erika's World

You guys I am sad! Heartbroken! Maybe that is over exaggerating but I am a little sad because tomorrow is the last day on Alena. Well at least for me and the other extras (I think). The  production  just started so they still have a few of weeks left that, but it's the last time for me and most of the extras. I think that they will use other extras for some of the other scenes where they need extras. Idk, one of the extras said that  earlier  today. It's sad  because we (the extras) have hung out so closely this past week and now we have to part just like that. LOL. We'll  probably  see each other again soon. your writer, Erika

Waddup, waddup? How are you all today? I am good. I had a good day on the set of Alena The Movie  today. It was a short day. We (the extras) got to go home at about 2:30 PM, instead of our usual 5 PM. Woop woop! Plus this week we are actually in Stockholm so it doesn't take us over an hour to get to location. Another big plus is that we are shooting inside this week, but the school that we are at is like super cold. Maybe the heat is turned off since it fall break all in Stockholm right now. Idk. (If it is because of that it's good to know that they are environmental, or maybe their are just being economical.) I hope that you all have had a good start of the week. I have. I'll talk to guys some more tomorrow if I have time. your writer, Erika

Hi mi amigos! What's going on in your part of the world? Me, I am fine. I was watching Sunday Football earlier but I got to admit that I don't understand a thing about that sport. Okay, I wasn't paying much attention while I was watching either. And paying attention is a key point to understanding something. But I was blowdrying my leggings that I need for next week. Yeah, I was literally sitting there with a blowdryer trying to dry my leggings. LOL. So has everyone had a good weekend? I have. Kind of chill but tomorrow it's back to work. Aww, it's gonna be sad because Wednesday is my last day on Alena . It feel like I have been working on it for months. LOL, I guess it's because the days are so long. Well well it's been fun anyway. I have some other things lined up and somethings that I really need to get to. So it's gonna be in a way nice to focus a little more on that. LOL, idk but it's funny because I could have had done them like before Alena ...

Hi guys! How are you all this fine Thursday? I am good. Starting to feel a bit tired. Just a bit. Hahaha. But I have gonna stay up a little but longer because I want to watch The Originals. Plus I can't sleep anyway. So it doesn't really matters. I have to be up at six tomorrow. Plus I am thinking that maybe if I tire myself out maybe I'll be able to sleep better tonight. Idk. I am an extra in this upcoming movie based on Kim W. Andersson's graphic novel  Alena.  You should like Alena The Movie 's facebook page  https://www.facebook.com/alenathemovie  and check out the hashtag #alenathemovie on instagram. This movie is going to be sick! I really can't wait to see it. your writer, Erika

Hi guys! How are you all this fine evening? What have you all done today? I have just been doing my usual. Living the glamours life as an extra. LOL. There is absolutely nothing glamours about being an extra on TV of in movies. Well, if there is I must have missed that part or maybe I am not just at the level since I have only been doing this for almost two years. Like maybe it's something that you work you way up to. Something you have to earn through years of hard work and dedication. Hahaha. I just read this article about the term "advanced extra". It's something that I do see often. (From what I understood) It's a made up title by production companies/ people in the business so that they are able to go around contracts saying how much they actually have pay an actor for their job. It sounds fancy because it has the word "advanced" but that's far from reality. The term is not covered by (caution: a bunch of swedish words are coming!) teaterförbu...

OMG, hi guys! How are you? I am good. Been baking all day. Well, most of the day anyway. Cinnamon buns, because it's the Cinnamon Bun Day and regular bread. LOL. Baker Babe, that's me. Hahahahaha. I told you guys that it was going to be a good weekend! Like today I have been baking all day. Fun fun (also a little bit exhausting). And tomorrow I am going to be an extra in this cute cool little film. It's not going to be shown in the theaters. It's just a film for educational purposes. I don't know how to put it really, but it's an informational educational film. (LOL that sounds weird, like I just made up my own word. Hahahaha.) That's going to be fun. It's going to be a long day, but I my call time isn't until 10:45 AM which mean I don't have to be up super early. LOL. I wouldn't be up now if I had to be up super early tomorrow morning. I was watching TV earlier and I saw that Flight on TV tomorrow. I got so excited that I screamed! I lov...

Hi guys! The other day I was in a sketch on Partaj . It was a sketch parody of a Swedish singer, Veronica Maggio. Below are a few screen shots from the sketch and here is a link to the episode  http://www.kanal5play.se/#!/play/program/230064/video/2153752219 . Fast forward to about  34:35 if you just want to see the sketch.  I am sorry that I can't blog more right now but I have got go because I am going to be an extra in 112 Aina  again today. I tell you about it more later. your writer, Erika

Hi guys, how are you tonight? I am good. I got to be an extra in a sketch for Partaj  today. It was fun. BTW season 7   of Partaj premieres on Kanal 5 next Sunday, September 21st at 9 PM. So watch it. I don't know when this sketch will air though. Just watch anyway because it's a good show. I posted a few pictures from today's shoot on instagram. Check them out here . My mind is a little scattered tonight so I don't really know what to say tonight. But I want to show you guys this fabulous coat that I saw the other day in a TV commercial for ellos. I haven't bought anything from ellos in several years but this coat though, I want it bad. Hopefully it looks as fabulous in real life as it does on my computer screen. (picture source/ credit to:  http://www.ellos.se/ellos-collection/kappa/445773?N=1z141jwZ1z141n2Z1z141q8Z1z13w7nZ1z141ll&Ns=Freshness|0&Nao=2&selArt=399321 ) your writer, Erika

Hi guys! Whaddup? I am good. I am just sitting here watching Taken  on TV. Today I have been an extra on Gina Dirawi's new TV show. I don't know when it premieres though. I don't even know what the name of the show is, LOL because they don't have a name for the show yet. LOL. When I know more I will tell you more. So, I was like "What am I going to blog about?". Than a thought popped into my head. Shoes. Not that I know much about shoes. I mean I know what I like, other than that not so much. But isn't that all that really matter? I mean wear what you like and don't give a shit about what anyone else think. LOL. Because there are as many opinions as there are people on this earth. So just be yourself and do what you like. Please yourself before you please anyone else. You're too fabulous to come second. On to the shoes. I went on Nelly.com and looked at shoes, because they have a lot. Plus stylish stuff. Plus they have trend guides. Anyway I f...

Hola mi amigos! How are you? I am good. I was an extra today in an episode of a Swedish sitcom called 112 Aina . I think that it was episode five of the upcoming season (season 3). Anyway. It was fun. I met a few interesting people. There was a guy named Diva, and yeah he lived up to his name. LOL. Tomorrow, I have this screen test for an infomercial. It sounded like fun when the casting director called me yesterday. I hope that goes well, I mean you never know with these things. You just gotta keep going and working hard. Not that I am doing major stuff. But idk, you got to start somewhere. The screen test is the only thing that I have booked tomorrow and it's in the morning so I don't know what I will do with the rest of my day. LOL. Maybe I'lls just go back home and have a Harry Potter marathon. Idk. Something. Well, I have stuff that needs to be done. I mean I guess that they are important but idk. your writer, Erika

Hi guys! Waddup? I am good. I haven't done much today. Oh, yeah I had to buy a new lighting cable (AGAIN!!!). Seriously, you have the get a now one of those at least twice a year. First world problem, I know I know, but it's annoying. 'Cause you'd think that they would last longer than that. They should Apple, Apple they should. Mmmhmmm. Just saying. Mmmhmmm. Tomorrow I have a busy day. LOL. No it's just that I get another chance to be an extra in that show Portkod something. (I am not being, ignorant or anything by calling the show "Portkod" since the first season was called Portkod 1321  it's just that it's a new season so the it's a different number that I don't remember at the moment.) It will be fun because we are shooting some fun scenes plus this location is inside and not in outside like last time. It was a little bit cold so when we had a break I went to Wayne's and bought a coffee but then I got too hot. LOL. First world pro...

Hi guys! I am so excited because the stats for the blog are going up! Yeah! Thank you guys! This makes me so happy! Thank you! Oh, you know that sketch that I was an extra in for Partaj ? The was shot like two weeks ago or something. Anyways, it didn't air (or I haven't seen it, still the season is over now). Still I thought that I would share the pictures that I took on locatio that day. Some ore the pictures might be a little blurry, but who cares right? LOL. Look at the vy! Look how gorgeous it is! This place had the most gorgeous toilets… LOL. Just chilin' in-between takes :) All of the extras plus the actors Pelle and Jenny :) your writer, Erika

Hola mi amigos! What's up? Hahaha. I am fine. It's Christmas in two days. Yeah! are you all ready for Christmas? Are you done with your Christmas shopping? Sadly I am not. I have one gift left. Plus my mom is making me get up early tomorrow to do all of the Christmas food shopping. Why early? Seriously I don't mmd standing in line for a while. I am a fangirl, so I am used to waiting (#sadly). Hahahaha. Plus  have been on the set of a few TV shows and movies by now and you will never understand the true definition of waiting until you have been on the set of a movie/ TV. You don't know how true that is. Once I was on a set of this TV series and my call time was 4 PM. It was really important that all of the extra was there no later than 4 PM because otherwise we might not get to be an extra. So I stressed to get there. Like right before I left the house the sipper on my shoe broke so I had to change shoes. I stressed so freaking much so that I wouldn't be miss the tra...

I am so sorry that I didn't blog last nigth but I was too tired! Like way way tired to even care to open up my computer. Like yea know, first I went to work between 7 to 11 AM (keep in mind that I got up at 5 AM) and then at 4 PM I went to a taping of Settman På Plats  and that wasn't over until around 9 PM. So when I got home at around 10 PM I was beyond tired! Like beyond tired. Like I felt that i was join to fall asleep while I was at the taping for Settman. That would have been embarrassing! Thankfully I did not fall asleep. After the show there was this guy who came up me and said "hello". He was an extra in the last Høllefjord sketch. He asked me if I recognized him and at first I didn't  but then he told me that he had been an extra in Høllefjord. The I hit me that probably was an extra in the latest Høllfjord sketch but as tired as I was (seriously I was so freaking tired that I just wanted to cry, just bawl my eyes out, just physically drained) I got a li...

Wow! I just can't believe that we shot the fifth episode of Partaj  today! Five episodes! That's like half the season. It's really funny and I really love doing this. I mean, yes I am only an extra so it's not like it's a big thing our whatever. But also, yeah it kind of is. Though I have only done TV jobs as an extra, Partaj  is the biggest thing that I have done. I mean I have done stuff for SVT and that's, I mean it wasn't good at all or whatever. I just feel like I have been treated the best as an extra at Partaj . Yesterday I was an extra on this new web series called Vikingshill  and it will premiere in March (I was told) on SVT Play and all of the extra's got the information to be on set at 4 PM and that it would over at 7 PM. It was also really important for us to be there on time because otherwise might not get to be on participate or whatever you say. So then, we got to wait, which is very usual and something you should expect but I mean three ...

OMG, hi guys! I feel stressed. A lot of things going on this week. First I had a shoot today, then an other tomorrow (two totally different things) and then I have Partaj on Wednesday as usual and then we are shooting another sketch for Høllefjord High  on Friday. I really hope that tomorrow shoot won't go on longer then it's supposed to because I have to be on set earlier than usual on Wednesday for Partaj . So I have to get up earlier and, yeah. I mean that's really don't only thing making me stressed. The time. That there isn't enough time. Well, it's just that I want to make sure that I get enough sleep so that I have energy for Partaj . Since I have been working with the Partaj  people a while now and that's a regular thing that I do, I feel like I am more loyal to that than anything else that I do. I mean, yeah, that's how it is. On set today I met one of the extras from Partaj . I was like (in my own world) "Yes! One familiar face!". S...

Hi hi! So did you watch tonight's episode of Partaj ? I did and I thought that it was kind of awkward because there were some shots of me where I rubbed my wrist against my nose. It just looked a little weird. Hehehe. I remember last Wednesday during the shot when I did it. Immediatly I thouhgt to myself "Oh, crap we're shooting!" But I guess everyone has those moments. Hehehe. I just thought to myself that like okay I have told them about Partaj , lets move on and blog about cute looks for fall but then I remembered that I told you that I would post some pictures from Partaj . So yeah, lets do that and I'll just blog about fashion some other day when I feel like it. I mean sometimes I am like, I mean I have an idea about what I want to blog about but then I start the post with something and it ends up being the whole post because I have so much to say about that topic. Oversized clothes, hehehehe Do you see the woman to the left all dressed on ...

It's Friday! Yeahum! Hahaha. Today on set I was thinking how good it feels that it is Friday and a weekend but what does that really matters when I have so much free time during the weeks? Like everyday is a weekend for my. Kind of, basically. Hahaha. Well, kinda yeah that's how it is. I had fun on set today. Today's scene was very funny! I hope that this makes the final cut because I can't wait to see it on TV. I mean it was very dramatic! More dramatic than it has ever been! Plus today's scene was the funniest scene that we have ever shoot. I had to tell myself not to laugh. Like I mean the lines were just so weird and just weirdly weird. You have to watch Partaj  on kanal5 (or kanal5play.se ) when it premieres next Sunday. I am definitely watching! It's getting more and more fun to shoot Partaj now because now I know the other extras. You feel more comfortable together as a group and so it is easier to talk to everyone. I have some other TV jobs lined up ...

Today was another good day on set. The director high fived me this morning. He said something about doing a good job yesterday. There was an other actor on the show today. His character has been on set everyday but then an extras has acted as a stand in for that character. Anyway, the new actor was really nice. The first scene that we shot this morning I had to stand next to him and he introduced himself. I thought that was really cool. I mean I really don't know what to expect when I am on set doing this kind of stuff since I don't have a lot of experience of this sort of thing but so far Partaj has been a really great experience. Sad thought that Monday is the last day of shooting! I will miss it. I was talking to some of the other extras on set today and we got talking about Top Model and one of the girl said that she actually got on the show. Top Model Sverige (Sweden's Next Top Model) that'd be. I asked her which season and she said the last season that aired thi...

Hi hi, I just wanna make a quick check in because I wanna try to go to bed early because I have to get up early. An other day of shooting Partaj tomorrow. I love it, I have a ton of fun. Yes we work long days and never know when we will get to go home for the day. We only know when we have to be on location but it is fun and I like doing this. I hope that I get to do more of this in the future. I like how we all get along, the crew, the extras and the actors all together. No one is snobby or a diva. Well, there was this one girl, an extra, today who was kind of a diva. She didn't want to wear what she was given because she thought it was disgusting wearing someone else's clothes (!?). Then why did she apply for this job, if all she was going to to all day was complaining because she complained a lot yesterday too. Sometimes I can get annoyed by how certain celebrities don't tweet for days or not update their instagram for days at a time but I understand them now because ...