“She goes, ‘Do you want to hear what I thought of the movie?’” he says.
Gawlik says his hand was shaking as he held the phone. The morning after she saw the film she called. “I like Hilarie, we’d become friendly, and I was like, ‘Oh my god, she’s gonna hate me.’” “I was so nervous about Hilarie because she could be seen as the bad guy,” he says. Even so, Gawlik says he wasn’t sure what the featured competitors would think after seeing the finished film. “Set!” celebrates the unusual personalities of the competitors in a warm, friendly, and often humorous way. It’s just the sort of person I am.” Knives out? “I was like, ‘Hey, are you sure you’re comfortable talking about this?’ I think just being really honest, people respond to that. “Tim told me early (about his struggles),” he says. “Hilarie plays a little bit of the antagonist throughout the film she’s kind of the firestarter,” Gawlik says. Moore, whose tables tend to make statements, such as the 2018 table setting made entirely out of trash that ends up in the ocean, is the renegade, the one doing things such as i ncluding taxidermy in her designs to the dismay of traditionalists such as Overman. The film follows them and a few others over the six months leading up to the fair, jumping back and forth between contestants to follow their progress. However, with that room full, she’s put one in the bedroom she and her husband Ron share. While most contestants dismantle their tables for good at the end of each fair, she reassembles them in her home, usually in a room dedicated solely to the tables.
Janet Lew of Laguna Niguel is cheerfully eccentric. Cheryl Von der Hellen and Virginia “Ginnie” Jacobson called themselves the Water Babes thanks to the Seal Beach aqua-aerobics classmates they consulted on their table designs. (She also wrote about the experience in 2014 for the OC Register.) Tim Wyckoff of Garden Grove, the sole male competitor featured in the film, shared his struggle to find a job and talked about the boost to his self-confidence a win at the fair could provide.Ĭrystal Young of San Dimas was the new kid on the block, winning the Best of Show ribbon and a $150 check in 2018, just her second year in competition. There was Hilarie Moore of Orange, who told him she liked to climb into a sensory deprivation tank to clear her mind and let inspiration for each year’s table theme surface.
Overman served as his entry into the world of competitive table setting, but soon he’d connected with many more, ultimately focusing on nine contestants who offered a range of different personalities. “She was open to us filming, and it kind of took off from there.” “I called her, talked to her, and that kind of was a catalyst to everything,” he says. Not only had Overman been entering tables at the Orange County and Los Angeles County fairs for decades, she won so often that Gawlik came to see her as the LeBron James of table-setting. “And at the time, when you Googled ‘competitive table-setting,’ a certain woman came up.” The queen and courtīonnie Overman of Hacienda Heights was the woman whose name filled Gawlik’s search results that night. “So I immediately went home and kind of Googled it. “I was like, ‘If this could make me care about table-setting, and the people I was with care about table-setting, maybe they can sit through a movie,” Gawlik says. Its arrival is proof, he says, that his instincts that day at the fair were correct.
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