A Day in the life of Justin Nimmo

From: BOP Magazine January 1999

Have you always wondered what it would be like to be a Power Ranger? Twenty-four-year-old Justin Nimmo, the newest addition to the Fox Kids network's Power Rangers in Space, is here to give you the behind-the-scenes scoop on being a silver savior of the universe! You can also catch the blond-haired babe on the big screen in Pleasantville.

Usually our call time IS 6 am. I Take a shower the night before and wake up within two minutes of leaving the house because I have to get every minute of sleep I can!

I go to the studio and they give me 10 or 15 minutes to eat breakfast- usually bacon and eggs, ham and cheese sandwiches, or french toast. Then I get in the makeup chair. What they do to me is stick one of those caps that you frost your hair with on my head, pull my hair through and make little silver tips on a few strands of my hair. Afterwards, they do my makeup, and then I put on my costume of the day. Whether it's my flight suit, Power Ranger outfit or civilian clothes. then I hang out for about 20 minutes until they get the lights figured out.

Usually at about 7:30 am at least everybody goes to the set and they say good morning to everyone. They gather all the actors together to do a rehearsal of the scene that they are going to do. Usually they shoot like five scenes a day, and they do one at a time, so we just rehearse for one scene. the director will tell us, "Well I would rather you do this or rather you do that." and then we shoot a bunch of stuff- it seems like they shoot a lot more than they should.

We usually finish one or two scenes before lunch and then take like a 45-minute lunch break. I usually have meat-roast beef or roasted or boiled chicken-a vegetable-like carrots, broccoli or steamed veggies-salad and a pastry fot desert. I usually eat the caesar salad instead of the house salad and half-lemonade-half-tea combination to drink.

We go back to makeup after lunch to get touch-ups. And from there I go in and start shooting another scene until I'm all done. Once we're done, the cast and crew tell everybody, "Thank you very much." Everybody's really nice and happy that they get to go home.

I'm usually out of there by 6 or 6:30 pm. But first I have to sign out of there with the assistant director. I take off my makeup, change my wardrobe, jump in the truck and come home to eat something else. I make sure to eat a certain amount of meat, vegetables and roughage-you have to have that-everyday. And you have to eat your salad last because it pushes your food down. I learned that in fitness class.

After that I like to go and watch a movie or something. Usually it's kind of late in the evening. But the sun is still up so it's a good time to either go to the driving range and play some golf or go across the street to the park and rollerblade.

I have to keep it pretty simple because I have to go to work again the next morning. But I usually can't sleep, so I end up going to bed between 2 and 3 in the morning. Although I wish I could be asleep by 10.