While shooting a scene outdoors at a mini-mansion for Soul Survivors TV movie, we began to hear one of the three worst sounds you can have to interfere with sound tech: a lawnmower! What could I do? I ran next door, to where a sweet Hispanic gentleman was cutting the lawn and offered him $20 to stop for just 10 minutes. It was a miracle I even remembered enough high school Spanish to communicate!

Then, when we were done, I ran over and offered him the $20. He wouldn’t take it!!

I could not believe it. He had been standing there, stock still, like a sentinel, while we were shooting. I thanked him and told him in Spanish that this project was spiritual, for God. He nodded, smiling, as if to say, “Of course, I knew that!” I’m very sure he was an angel sent to watch over us while we were shooting.