# familiar face noticed. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 20, 2018, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/familiar-face-noticed/809198 "2018-02-20T14:02:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2018, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/familiar-face-noticed/809198/21 "2018-02-21T16:22:28Z")
Baby Zac Efron as Simon Tam in Firefly? That’s one that got me. His face, even young, is very distinctive. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2018, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/familiar-face-noticed/809198/22 "2018-02-21T17:11:19Z")
> [@Icarus](#): > > On the opposite side of that, I worked as an extra for a carnival scene in a movie. They kept putting me in every shot doing something different (even though there were dozens and dozens of extras there. I don’t know, I guess they just liked my look.). I thought that it would screw up the continuity to have me be working the booth in one shot, and then buying a hot dog in the very next shot, then riding the ride in the next shot. When I saw the finished product, that is exactly what happened. Obviously it didn’t disrupt the shots as I was definitely background, but it was kinda silly if you noticed. Lol, I was an extra in the show Chicago Justice last year as a member of a drunk running team who wears drindls every time they run (which was, apparently, just about every day). We filmed one scene where we all run by along the Chicago river and one of the runners films a suicide. Then we filmed another scene where the detectives are looking for clues and we just happen to be running by again. Watch the beginning of that second scene closely and you can see us staging to enter the scene. > [@xizor](#): > > I was visiting Las Vegas once and had the hotel TV on the local news. They were interviewing people about some local community concern, don’t remember what it was, maybe crime. > I heard a familiar voice being interviewed and looked up to see Penn Gillette of Penn & Teller fame. The caption just said “local resident” and he was speaking to the reporter seriously about the topic on hand, no hint or mention of his celebrity during the whole bit. That’s kind of like when Kevin Smith protested his own movie Dogma: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/wvuJuiTE9do/maxresdefault.jpg "SMarchive #10: Kevin Protests at a Local DOGMA Screening - S.I.T") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvuJuiTE9do) ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2018, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/familiar-face-noticed/809198/23 "2018-02-21T17:54:57Z")
Recently I was re-watching _The Sopranos_, specifically the episode where Uncle Junior undergoes chemotherapy. The intern/nurse who administered the chemo was played by Tony Hale, aka Buster Bluth from _Arrested Development._ There’s also an episode (where A.J. and his friends trash the school’s pool) which features a 17-year-old girl who would grow up to be Lady Gaga; but I never would have known if someone else hadn’t pointed it out. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2018, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/familiar-face-noticed/809198/24 "2018-02-21T17:57:27Z")
I saw a local, uh, ‘pole dancer’ on the local news many years ago–but it had nothing to do with her line of work. There had been some kind of disturbance at the apartment complex she was living at (fire, shooting, or something), and she was one of several residents interviewed that made it to the final cut. ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2018, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/familiar-face-noticed/809198/25 "2018-02-21T23:13:40Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Ever been surprised by who you _didn’t_ see in a movie? > > In the 90s the movie **Kingpin** was filmed in western Pennsylvania. Woody Harrelson, Bill Murray, Chris Elliot, Randy Quaid; a really great lineup. A friend of mine took some time off work to try to get a glimpse of the stars. He was a big guy with long hair and beard. Someone approached and hired him as an extra! > > So, my friend worked on the movie for three days! He was so excited. He got a VHS tape at some point and invited us all to his home to watch his motion picture debut. It was a great movie, but he only appears in the closing credits and if you blink you miss him. Three days of filming for two seconds of film. When I was out of work a few years ago, I started doing a bunch of extra work around the Bay Area. It’s a total crap shoot what makes the final cut. I did one of those Discovery Channel crime re-enactment shows. I played a construction worker at a site where the fugitive was working. We shot about five different scenes occurring at various points in the story. In one scene I actually had lines and interacted with the main character. In the show, there were two extremely brief scenes at the construction site, not including the one in which I spoke. You can see me for a couple seconds in each scene. I did a twelve-hour day (and got paid quite well) on a big-budget Super Bowl commercial. I couldn’t pick myself out in it. I worked for four hours on an HBO series and somehow managed to be very prominently visible on camera several different times. So you just never know. But if I ever become famous, and somebody is watching an old episode of _Looking_ or _I (Almost) Got Away With It_, they might be saying, “Hey, isn’t that Wheelz?” ---
**Author:** ![Wolf333](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf333/32/3460_2.png) [@Wolf333](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolf333)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2018, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/familiar-face-noticed/809198/26 "2018-02-21T23:29:05Z")
I saw a still of the “Spider-Man 2” (the train rescue scene). I recognized one of the background characters, checked IMDB and found that it was Marvin from “Pulp Fiction”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/familiar-face-noticed/809198.md?page=1)