And that this was in fact the first time in his life that he had even been on the driver's side of a vehicle. (Submitted by Sam Mullins)Īnd here's the thing: Of everyone on the shoot, I am the only person who knew that Peter, the person driving the vehicle in the driver safety video. You can watch the video for yourself, but it plays out like this: As my character and his co-workers try to escape from the George Romero-style zombies running from building to building with the undead in hot pursuit, we are confronted with opportunity after opportunity to be safe while operating government vehicles. I read the script and learned that the film that I had been discovered for was a - wait for it - zombie-themed driver safety video, paid for by the municipal government of Metro Vancouver, for internal use only. But at the time, I was living in the dankest of dank basement apartments and slinging waffles in a breakfast joint.

After I told a story one night, this guy came up to me and told me that I would be perfect for the lead role of a film he's working on. It all started outside a bar in downtown Vancouver that hosted a regular storytelling night. If only my brain had been devoured by zombies, a fate that befell most of my co-stars.

But in my case, the gig I took as a broke twentysomething is simply impossible to forget. At some point, we've all had jobs we'd rather not look back on.

Zombie driver video