Big-screen slugfest – ?Tenebrous? filming gets physical
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But that?s what happened Wednesday afternoon as filming for the movie ?Tenebrous? continued in downtown McMinnville.
Playing Marty Sheck, Doak stood on the steps of First Presbyterian Church while waiting for a funeral to begin. When Louis Mandylor made his way up the stairs (playing the part of deputy Lloyd Muldoon), Doak fired a nasty comment in his direction.
The comment makes deputy Muldoon snap. ?What did you say to me?? Mandylor yells before punching Doak in the stomach and grabbing him by the throat.
?He wasn?t really hitting me during rehearsal,? said Doak, a Warren County native. ?But I told him when the camera was rolling to go ahead and hit me hard and he did. I figure that?s what I do sit-ups for.?
Unfortunately for Doak, one cut is never enough. The scene required several takes with Doak getting punched in the stomach and grabbed by the throat each time.
?He was grabbing and choking me pretty good,? said Doak, whose leg was cut during one skirmish. ?My neck is sore right now. But I?d do anything to make this work. I?d jump off a building if I have to.?
After the fight is broken up, Gordon Woodlee, another McMinnville resident, steps between the men. Playing the role of a preacher, Woodlee says, ?This is not the time or the place.?
For Woodlee, it?s his fifth minor movie role. He also had parts in ?The Green Mile? starring Tom Hanks, ?Blue Valley Songbird? starring Dolly Parton, ?Death in the Family,? and ?Changing Hearts.?
?When ?The Green Mile? came calling in Nashville, I went up and auditioned,? said Woodlee on how he got his start. ?I didn?t even have time to drive home before the phone was ringing.?
Woodlee is a Warren County native who just celebrated his 50th wedding anniversary with his wife, Charlene.
?This is something I wish I?d done 30 years ago,? said Woodlee, who says he?s had no formal training as an actor. ?I?ve just watched a lot of TV and read a lot of Southern Standards.?
As for ?Tenebrous,? after the fight scene at First Presbyterian, there was a town hall meeting at the Chamber of Commerce featuring an angry mob of local residents.
Deputy Muldoon was trying to reassure the rowdy bunch that everything was OK, but several group members wanted to hunt down the person responsible for murders suddenly taking place around the cozy, little town.
Filming for ?Tenebrous? is scheduled to continue at various locations around Warren County for roughly two more weeks.