Mike Messier(I)

On the set of the film "Hope Springs", starring Meryl Streep, Tommy Lee Jones, and Steve Carell, Mike was worked into the bar scene as "Mike" sharing a moment with Streep and the bartender played by Elisabeth Shue, whose comedic improvisations lead to the scene being added to the film. This scene can be found on Mike's acting reel.

[from the feature film screenplay Distance from Avalon, by Mike Messier] JOE:I've been working on a theory. Would you like to hear it? HEARTBREAK: Of course. JOE: Our "past" equals who we've been. Our "present" equals who we are. Our "future" equals who we will be. Our "eternal" means who we will be for eternity. So where is the exponential? Where is the magic, the magnificence? Where is that "M-Life?" "M-Life" equals the combination of two or more of the these (past, present, future, eternal) at the same time. To live in the M-Life is to dig beneath the surface of the "societal norm of living" and live through and process time and space unique to oneself including "past life experiences." M-Life is to go beneath the plateau of common reality into past life experience while simultaneously, at least at times, experiencing reality with and common to, other traditional humans.