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CARL T. EVANS
By Amy Steele
Juggling the Hats
Carl T. Evans takes on Several Roles for his Debut Film Walking the Sky
Almost 20 years ago, Carl T. Evans played Alan Michael Spaulding on the long running soap Guiding Light. Now he is the writer, director, producer and actor in a provocative new film Walking on the Sky. This is the debut effort for the 30-something actor who has a plethora of stage, television and film experience which he could bring to this project.
The idea of this thinking and probing film resulted from a tragic event in Evans's life. He lost a friend in L.A. and in the process went through some deep soul searching and examination of his own life and goals and accomplishments to that point. This culminated in an idea for a film script.
"I went through a lot of things psychologically and emotionally and created characters that were facets of my journey," he explained by phone from Los Angeles. "For some of those emotional struggles I made those characters women. I can be like Liz and can be a control freak. I love animals like Joann. It is all the emotional places I've been and it's basically a roller coaster and I felt many different things and applied those things I felt to those different characters."
As this was such a personal story for Evans, the directing and writing part seemed natural. He could not imagine someone else taking the directing reins of the project because he knew each character inside and out. He knew the scenes and he knew where he wanted the film to go.
"I realized I would have to spend countless hours explaining to someone how the characters came to be and no one was more prepared than me since it was my life and that was how directing came to be on this movie. In writing the script for the film, the journey is not as just a writer but as an audience member to see how it builds and feels and get a barometer and can't move forward. Until I know a scene has what it needs, I won't skip forward. I stay with scene until the foundation is solid."
The film can be dark at times but there are moments of laughter and bonding. Evans's said that he found the film The Breakfast Club to be quite inspiring because you could relate to each character in that film in some way. In Walking on the Sky, you find that each character has an aspect of his or her character to which you find yourself connecting on some level either in a minute way or in a larger way.
To develop such a strong bond between these characters who are friends coming together at a difficult time, Evans had the actors go through two weeks of rehearsals so that the actors would be comfortable in any room of the apartment where the film was shot or on the roof where many scenes took place. He felt that is was very important for the actors to be completely comfortable with the surroundings before the shooting began.
"This film is a mirror for others for how they can evaluate themselves: a thinking movie. Where are they? Is it where they want to be? It allows a larger sense of closure. The audience should walk away with something that makes them think about their lives."
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