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"As they’re shooting, the stage manager whispered to me, ‘It turns out you’re not a total idiot.’"
“Saturday Night Live” was mere seconds from rolling cameras in front of a studio audience and millions watching at home when the stage manager realized the set’s black door had a large scratch on it.
“It was going to look terrible on camera,” said Steven Demmler, then a fourth-year stagehand. “People started freaking out.”
But Demmler remained calm, grabbed a black sharpie and colored the scratch so that it was invisible on camera.
“As they’re shooting, the stage manager whispered to me, ‘It turns out you’re not a total idiot,’” Demmler said with a laugh, “And I was like, ‘Yes, now I’ve arrived.’”
That was around 2003.
Since then, the Tampa resident’s career has been on an upward trajectory.
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