I have always wanted to be in a movie so I got my chance on Sunday. A movie is going to get filmed here soon starting next month so they needed extras so I went to the Doubletree Hotel where they were holding auditions and I stood in line for eight hours to get in so they can gather my information and take a photo of me. I didn’t see any of the stars. I don’t know where they were. It was the local extra casting company here for the movie. Wow so many people showed up, the line was huge, it went around the block around the hotel. Now I know next time to bring an umbrella if it’s cloudy, bring my games with and music and maybe more books to read because I finished my Jenny McCarthy book as I stood in line and was still waiting when I finished it. I started it that day and finsihed it that day lol.
Some people even drove their cars up to the hotel to have their picture taken of their car for it to be in the movie and I did the same. Doesn’t mean mine will be in the movie of course, they have to pick which cars they want in it, same as people for extras.
So yeah if you want to be an extra, you have to stand in the long line for hours to audition and get there early before it even starts so you aren’t waiting in line for hours. Who knows when people started to line up before 11AM lol. I got there around 11:30ish and it was finally eight when I had my photo taken and then I left and got my car and brought it to the front which took me about another twenty minutes to wait and then I headed home. It rained that day so I was standing in the rain off and on because it rained off and on, then it finally got sunny out and it was clear skies finally around two o clock. My hands froze so I know to bring gloves next time. I just didn’t know what to expect for the audition and what it be like, now I know. It seems like some people knew what to expect because some brought umbrellas or chairs, gloves as if they knew they would be waiting outside. Maybe because they have done it before? No one knows what to expect if they have never done something before so we all learn from experiance or they have learned that from other peoples experiance about when they auditioned to be an extra. So they wake up that day and see it’s cloudy so they knew to bring umbrellas in case it rains, and knew to bring gloves because it was a little chilly out. But it was a good thing I wore a winter coat.
My aunt’s in a Bond film and a couple of friends have even had starring roles in pretty major pictures.
But yeh - if you’re really keen to be an extra, sign up to an agency, it’s normally free, and then you can actually make pretty decent money off it as well.
My fiancee was sort of in Fever Pitch (she actually got to go to Game Four in St. Louis in 2004. That was before I met her, or I’d have been there too). Good friend of mine was in Good Will Hunting, the bar scene (where Will pwns the yuppie in the beginning). I have yet to be in anything, unless you count glimpses when I go to a Sox game or something. But that doesn’t count lol
it was back in my wrestlng days, one of the guys was crippled and rte were doing a show about him. anyway they came down to the gym to film him wrestling. i was the guy the boss picked to do stuff with him for the cameras. they got an hours footage of us and in that hour we had got an equal amount of offence in but the bits they showed on tv were of me kicking the crap out of him. made me look like a giant asshole
the worst part was i was sposed to be a good guy, so after the show went out and i was doing my next wrestling gig i got completely bood out of it. damn TV!