Stephen, the Assistant Director, makes sure the cast arrives and the day's work gets finished. Diane, John's girlfriend, is in the first shot. They are shooting a scene where Harley Mom is going to rob the bar. John is talking about wanting to shoot a scene involving drugs, but unfortunately, they don't have time to put a crack pipe into the scene. "It's not something you want to drop on production on day one," Joel says, "Make sure we can just swap it in." Joel warns John not to mess up any shots on purpose just to get his way. He's very worried that John won't want to change scenes, and he won't listen to direction and assistance.
Right now, they still don't have a hero character, and they're still pursuing Mark Wahlberg. They have a backup choice, Eric Dane, but Joel isn't behind him at all. They have to shoot the part in less than 24 hours. Mike says, "We needed a hero four days ago." They are making costumes on a dummy body, because they need to have everything ready to go when they find someone. They begin shooting the scene with John's girlfriend dropping a gun on the bathroom floor; it's perfect, and they move on. "Diane, good!" he hollers.
Back to finding a hero, Michelle relates that Eric is upset that he found out that Mark Wahlberg is being sought after and now he doesn't want to be in the role. Michelle screwed up and thought she was supposed to offer the role to Eric, which she wasn't supposed to do, yet. He was their backup, and now they don't even have that. "We have no one," Mike sighs.
Now, shooting again in the bar, various scenes and they cut for lunch. They go back and forth on whether or not they are ahead or behind. "It's surreal," Marcus smiles. "It's his vision now," Patrick says. "Things change every time," Joel explains, "If you don't have the writers on hand, you could be shooting yourself into a big, big disaster." Mike calls Michelle back and confirms that Mark Wahlberg will not do Feast. Mike looks dejected and defeated. He says he'll call her back once they get a game plan.
"Once the D.P. sets up a shot, even the tiniest of change the entire shot," Joel tells the cameras as he notes that John wants to continue to change shots after they are set up. Josh Duhamel, from Las Vegas is pursued depending on his schedule, as to whether or not he will star in the movie; his people said if he does do it, he will be on set tomorrow no matter what, so, now it's just a waiting game. "Josh is worth the wait," Mike says, but he finds out that he can't do it because of his commitment to the NBC show. "This is a business, people are busy." Mike is now going back to Eric Dane. "We want to officially honor our offer to Eric and get him out tomorrow," Mike tells his manager. They are still worried he might not join the cast, because they waited too long to officially ask him.