02/11/2026
Just found out the legendary Production Assistant Patrick "Trainwreck" Gillmen passed away after a battle with cancer. When I started in this industry as a PA, Patrick taught me a thing or two, usually with 14 cuss words for emphasis. I always enjoyed our set conversations from bitcoin to politics to his Venice Beach apartment alley crazies he'd encounter. I smile whenever I see "Trainwreck" written in sharpie in the back of production trucks all over Los Angeles. Love him or hate him he wore his heart on his sleeve. I can see him sitting on the beach with a paper and cigarette, coffee in hand. REST IN PEACE LEGEND.