Almost in Love was written and directed by my friend Sam Neave. It's a film made up of two 45 minute shots. Yes, only two very long shots in the whole film! He had shown me the first part - set on a rooftop patio looking back at the NYC skyline - earlier in the year and I was really impressed, and so when he asked me to play a character in the second half of the movie, set a few years later, I jumped at the chance.
We shot in a beautiful house in the Hamptons, and the story picks up at the wedding party of one of the characters. It's late, everyone has been drinking and old buttons are freshly pressed.
What was amazing about doing this was that the end of the 45 minute take had to coincide with the sun coming up. So we had a really weird working schedule: getting up at 1am or so and getting ready, having a few drinks to get us in the proper party mood (!) and then shooting till daylight. Then we'd stay up and have another few drinks before going to bed again. Most days I had to go back to NYC to shootThe Good Wife or have meetings, so I was pretty exhausted by the end of the week. But it's an experience I wouldn't have missed for the world.
Incidentally, Sam and his wife Marjan (who plays my date in the movie) showed me the first half of Almost In Love the night that I had been offered the role of Eli Gold in The Good Wife.
Here's a little film I made after shooting ended one morning, and then the trailer.