I met the Director of "Swingers" and "The Bourne Identity"!

So I'm on the metro minding my business on the way to school, and I noticed there is one empty seat next to these bunch of people speaking English (with an American accent). When you hear Italian and English with an Italian accent all day, you can here American English from far away. I call it my Englishdar (English radar). I also noticed one of the girls was carrying quite the nice video camera. So I was like, "uhhh what are you guys doing here in Rome". They responded filming a movie. I'm like OK, must be some small indy film. So the attention got switched to what I was doing in Rome. "I'm an engineer at an Italian University...ya da ya da ya". I finally asked the guy next to me..."is this like a big movie". He's like yeah it's called "Jumper" and it comes out in 2008 because there are a lot of visual effects that require post production. That made me think that this film was legit. So that made me then ask...who is in it? The guy responded "Sam Jackson (as in Samuel L.), Hayden Christensen, and Rachel Bilson from the OC". One of my first thoughts was "whoah, is Samuel Jackson on this motha f***in metro?" So the whole time I still figured it was some of the random crew members because there were just filming behind the scenes clips around rome. The guy who I was talking to actually told me that the guy sitting across from us really liked to ride trains. That should have hit me that if that one guy wanted to ride the subway instead of everything else and made the rest of the crew go on it too (the metro isn't the most luxurious ride around Rome)that that guy was important.

So I get to school all excited that I met Americans first of all, and then 2 that they had something to do with a film. So I found info on the movie through Wikipedia and IMDb. It made me more excited that I found more info on it. Then I decide to click on the director. It comes up with this. I literally shouted out in my office "It's the dude that likes to ride trains!". And then I realized he had also directed "Mr. and Mrs. Smith", "The Bourne Identity", and "Swingers!!!!". OK, most people who know me know that I LOVE "Swingers". The director Doug Liman is lucky I didn't recognize him cause I would have jumped and given him a big hug for giving me "Swingers". Sad thing is I also for some random reason had my camera on me, but didn't know that it was him so didn't think to take a picture. They just got of one stop before mine at "Cinecitta", which is the film studios in Rome. I just casually said "Take it Easy and Enjoy Rome". That made my day though!