Large speakers were set up at the corner of Market Street and Castro to broadcast Gus Van Sant’s voice, directing another scene from “Milk”.  There were a large number of extra’s on the street as both Sean Penn and Emile Hirsch hopped up on a box, yelling over the crowd with a megaphone.  Gus’s voice continually boomed, “More pantomime!”, “Less Pantomime”, “could the drag queen in the front please lower her hair”, while set workers moved through the crowd removing misspelled signs.   



Sean Penn(IMBD LINK) with megaphone playing Harvey Milk.

Emile Hirsch(IMDB LINK) as Cleve Jones. Aside from being Harvey Milk’s intern, Cleve is known for conceiving the NAMES project AIDS Memorial Quilt. Clevejones.com

And the two talking between takes.

Link to my Flickr Set “OMG: They’re making a movie in the Castro”

Link to photos tagged with “Harvey Milk Movie”

Some great background information from Towleroad Link

Coverage from Slashfilm.com Link