Washington Interns Gone Bad - Episode 7

Here's the 7th episode of my feature film, Washington Interns Gone Bad. I highly recommend you start at the beginning, so here's part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5 and part 6.

This episode was a lot of fun to shoot. We had a restaurant lined up to shoot the lunch scene in, but it fell through at the last minute. So we turned a corner of the living room of 942 Westminster into a restaurant. For those keeping track, that's also the location of the party scene in Episode 2, Becky's bedroom in Episode 4, and will be showing up a few more times in later episodes. Then for the exterior, we used Bistro Au Ghetto, a closed-up building that the artist next door painted to look like a little cafe. While we only shot there for about 10 minutes, we built up quite a crowd of onlookers for that.

Enough about locations though. This episode is where we first meet the sleazy lobbyist character. Since at the time I wrote this I had never heard the name Jack Abramoff, I can't say that this character is based on him, but once you see one of the later episodes you will have to think that Abramoff based himself after this character. The scene at the restaurant shows my anger at democrats who have all but abandoned the working class in favor of big corporate donors.

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