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During the making of "Truck Stop," the FBL team and the actors enjoyed a wonderful combination of casting. The actors seemed at home in the scene, which was filmed in a real truck stop restaurant. Minimal redecorating was involved.
The flashback scene of the truck driver arguing with his wife was also shot in the truck stop restaurant, in the next room. The crew was able to hang homelike curtains and put other household items in the room to make it look like a living room.
One challenge was that the actor who plays the truck driver in the spot did not have experience driving an eighteen-wheeler. In the scene where he drives out of the parking lot, a real truck driver is crouching down next to him, out of sight of the camera, operating the gears and pedals so that the truck moves properly.
VIDEO TRANSCRIPT
Music: Now he drives a diesel out of Dallas
Music: hauling cars out to the coast
Music: it aint the dream that he remembered, just a few short years ago
Music: But tonight at a truckstop, while drinking a cup
Music: the waitress grins and winks at him, and says My shifts almost up
Music: With so much riding on the choice at hand
Music: the spirit of a boy, or the wisdom of a man
Music: With so much riding on the choice at hand
Music: the spirit of a boy, or the wisdom of a man.
Anncr: Right choices
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Super: Right choices
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Right Choices. Pass It On!
