User:Dave Ruskjer/sandbox

Dave Ruskjer was cast the day before shooting scenes that had Max in them on Kauai. The "real" Max didn't make it to the shoot. Since Max was in scenes with some of the major actors, a substitute had to be located quickly in order to avoid delays. The director sat through a performance of Rogers and Hammerstein's "South Pacific." He asked the director of that play to send over a couple of it's actors to audition. Supergators had to pay the union more than twice as much as they paid Ruskjer in order to get their permission to allow a non-union actor to act in the production.