Baby Zac Efron as Simon Tam in Firefly? That’s one that got me. His face, even young, is very distinctive.
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.
That’s kind of like when Kevin Smith protested his own movie Dogma:
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.
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.
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?”
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”.