Pretty exciting moment today. I was walking down Spring Street on my way to work, and walked right into a L&O: CI shoot. I stopped for a second and thought, "I could run into Vincent D'Onofrio right now." Two seconds later, he walked out of a doorway onto a sidewalk, 10 feet in front of me. Vincent has been one of my favorite actors for a long, long time, so I took a quick picture of him and stepped up and told him I thought he was a good actor in everything he does. He said thanks and looked the other way, pretty much ignoring me. No problem...I pretty much expected that.
This was the second time I've "met" Vincent. The first time was way back in 1996 or 1997 when he was promoting Whole Wide World at the Boston Film Festival.
They were shooting an episode of L&O: SVU outside my work today. Looks like a bunch of guys in hazmat suits standing outside a police station. The building, labeled "16th Precinct", is a high school in real life. This is at the corner of Avenue of the Americas (Sixth Avenue) and Dominick Street in Soho.