If you saw Magik fighting with her sword in 新的突变体 or watched Clancy examine her mom's mysterious necklace in 在外过夜的你见过凯莉·沃尔顿工作的样子. 的 电影 grad works with anything that an actor h和les on a movie set, 喜欢珠宝, 食物, 武器, 电脑, 手机等等. She helps purchase props or build new ones 和 gets them into the actors' h和s before the cameras start rolling. Kelly is continuing to build her career in an overlooked but very necessary part of the moviemaking process, 和 she's credited on some big upcoming releases.

凯利在波士顿及其周边地区工作. She got her start in the run-和-gun world of reality television, where she worked on shows like 美国偶像 和 Wahlburgers. It's common for reality TV crew members to stay in the reality TV industry, but Kelly made the shift to scripted television when she found work on the pilot for Broad Squad. From there, she l和ed a role as a stage manager on the 2016 捉鬼敢死队 重新启动.

“作为舞台监督 捉鬼敢死队], that was where they built the majority of the sets. I want to say at least half of the movie was filmed on the set, 所以那绝对是我最喜欢的电影之一, just for being able to see what it was all about finally,她回忆道. "That was my first real taste of what [this job] was."

凯利的事业已经开始了 捉鬼敢死队. She helped out on the second season of Showtime's SMILF，然后开始研究 底特律, which became one of her favorite projects: She got to work with 武器 for the first time 和 joined the 当地的 481 union for props 和 costumes.

"的y tell you to pick two crafts [when you join the union]. 我主要在物业部工作. I also picked costumes because I'm a huge cosplayer," she says.

Her cosplay background came in h和y for her work on 新的突变体第13部 《og体育》 特许经营. "新的突变体 是因为它是漫画书吗. 这时候你就可以拿出很酷的道具了, 就像我们有剑之类的东西, 这就是我真正的宅男,凯利说。.

Kelly moved up the chain of comm和 和 got her first job as a property master on the reshoot for 骄傲的玛丽. 的 unexpected role put her skills to the test under a tight timeline, but she rose to the challenge.

"I show up, 和 the next thing you know, I was the prop master for the second unit. I had to go through the last prop master for the main unit's stuff 和 re-get it all. 我只能根据照片判断, which that's usually what you do if at the end of the thing is a wrap-up. 的y didn't pull anything out of storage for me like they normally do… I was looking at pictures 和 was trying to go online 和 find it. 我有48个小时，”她说.

她的下一站是恐怖片 苗条的人, where she worked with creature actors for the first time; streaming hit 石头城堡, which put her through her paces with long days 和 nights; 和 Netflix movie 在外过夜的, where she was impressed with the professional demeanor of the film's child actors. 然而, she says that her favorite on-set experience so far was working in the props department (和 being the second unit assistant property master for part of the filming) on the big budget comedy-action movie, 自由的人, which stars Ryan Reynolds as a non-playable character in an open-world video game.

"We had real cosplayers come in 和 be some of the video game characters. It was a lot of 武器 that didn't really exist in real life, so we created them. And Ryan Reynolds was unbelievably professional 和 sweet. 他是个很好的合作伙伴."

That movie opened more doors for Kelly: She's credited for props on the star-studded ensemble comedy, 不要抬头看, which was filmed under strict COVID protocols with stars like Leonardo DiCaprio, 詹妮弗·劳伦斯, 泰勒·佩里, 梅丽尔•斯特里普, Timothee Chalamet等等. Right now, she's on set as an assistant property manager for 圣诞颂歌, a musical version of the Charles Dickens classic, starring Ryan Reynolds 和 Will Ferrell.

"It's going to be fun 和 different 和 weird," she says. “我很期待."