I was a patron in a strip bar for the movie, (working title) “A Row of Crows,” AKA (straight to video title) “A Climate for Killing.” I was placed at a back table against some lattice work and got paid about $80 for cheering at a topless woman for most of the day.
I didn’t get any camera time, but there is an angle where the two principle actors are at the bar, and the dancer can be seen in the backround between the lattice work. If you look close through the lattice on the right, you can see movement. That movement is me.
This other one probably doesn’t count, but I was also in the audience of the Rolling Stone’s movie, “Let’s Spend the Night Together,” the Phoenix part of the movie. Watching in slo-mo on Laserdisk, I have just about pinpointes which white dot in the stadium is me.
I was an extra in The Right Stuff. There’s a scene where Scott Crossfield (IIRC) was drawing on the side of his plane. I was in the crowd looking at him. Unfortunately, the I didn’t make it into the scene.
The caterers were really good (filet mignon for lunch). Good wrap party at the Essex House when they were done shooting at Edwards. Still, I keep looking for me even though I know I’m not there…
FWIW, there’s a scene with the Bell X-1. The rocket was made of plywood, and it was a little windy in the desert. So they had three of us get on the off-camera wing and lift our legs out of the shot to keep the X-1 from shaking in the wind. (So in a manner of speaking, I might be in the film. )
And I was an extra on the never-released Immoral Minority Picture Show (“IMPS”) with William Sanderson.
Of course I showed up as a murder victim (“Max Peters”) in Cut Up.
I’m in The Phantom Menace, as far as I know. They had us come in to ILM, put on costumes, and pose on a green screen; I think it was for the crowd scenes at the celebration at the end. If I did end up in the movie, I’m probably about 10 pixels high at most. I’ll never know because I’m never going to watch it exhaustively enough to spot myself. The fun part was just getting to take a couple of hours off work and putting on the costume; I had one of those Naboo guard costumes.
I was at Yankee Stadium for one night of taping of Anger Management. As an aside if anyone know how I can get more extra work I’d l;ove to hear from you. Paid, Unpaid It doesn’t matter
In LA you can sign up at quite a few agencies that specialize in supplying extras for films and tv.
My SO was on a lot of shows; Frasier, Good Times, The Practice, Diagnosis Murder and a whole bunch more I can’t remember, plus a few feature films.
The pay, back then, was about $50 day and free breakfast, lunch and dinner (depending on how long the shoot was). He said the food was usually very good.
Thing is, you have to call in every day and be ready to go at the drop of a hat, you have to take your own change of clothes most of the time (three outfits) and it is a lot of waiting, waiting and waiting for the next shot. Kind of boring work.
On one show, The Practice, he even got an extra $10 to use our car to be parked on a street for a winter scene. They put mud on the car, shot the scene and then washed the car. Not bad - they pay $10 for you to park and then wash your car afterwards!
What was funny is when you called in and heard the tape of what they needed the next day, “We need 25 guys between the ages of 20-40 with shaved heads for a gang movie - tatoos ok, we need 10 couples who can ballroom dance and guys have to have their own tux, we need 16 Aisan women various ages who can knit, we need people who can juggle and use stilts…” etc.
While in college I was an extra for Campus Man - an idiotic movie with that guy who played Tarzan and Morgan Fairchild. Just crowd scenes, but we were in the second row behind the actors when they needed shots of them standing in front of the crowd. Got paid $70/day, ate free pizza and got really good at clapping without actually making any noise. You can see me in one of the long shots if you look closely, and in one close-up scene my right arm is on screen. I missed having a six-foot on screen head by about six inches of lens.
Hubby (back when he was Fiance), Bubba and I extras in the movie Cobb. Were asked to please not approach Tommy Lee Jones. We were part of the crowd scenes. Jimmy Buffett was also an extra and gave a free acoustic concert, which was just great! And I shook his hand!! I got paid for 1 day but was there 3. $32
Oh and they filmed this in Birmingham with little publicity, so there wasn’t enough people to fill the stands. So it was human - cardboard person - human… all through the stands. There are only brief flashes of crowds used in the movie.
I wasn’t in Office Space. I must’ve ended up on the cutting room floor. It was just a scene where Jennifer Aniston was driving past another car into…er, whatsisname’s apartment complex.
I had the chance to run over Jennifer Aniston. She was chatting with someone while standing in front of my car, her hand on the hood. Then she tried to get in, only to realize that there was already someone there. She seems very nice, incidentally, but she didn’t eat lunch with us IIRC. The guy who played the next door neighbor did, though; he seems pretty cool.
I was actually semi-visible in “A Slipping-Down Life”, but I don’t think that made it to the big screen outside of SXSW. It’s a kind of interesting movie about a girl who falls in love with a singer and carves his name into her forehead. Backward, because she does it in the mirror. I’m in one of the audience scenes in a white shirt and dark vest.
I got paid for both of them, and got lunch both times. The lunch for Office Space was way better, probably because there were fewer extras. We got the same as the actors and crew…a pasta bar with really excellent side dishes. Slipping-Down Life was pretty good too, though; we got some kind of chicken and rice and stuff.
In 1994 I played a Yankee prisoner at Andersonville in the TNT historical drama, Andersonville.
This was for shots of such huge crowds that they were taking women as well as men, and in fact it was my friend Laurie who told me about the opportunity.
We drove to the set (which was just south of Hartsfield airport, well north of the real Andersonville) at way-early-o’clock in the morning. We were costumed in Union uniforms, including hats (Laurie was instructed to tuck her hair up into hers) and makeup artists strategically grimed-up our faces.
Our job was to spend all day sitting in front of a tent looking bored. Or if we wanted, we could get into the tents and nap. We could talk with our fellow “prisoners” about anything we wanted; again, these were for such huge crowd shots that we were nowhere near the camera. I hardly even knew when they were shooting, and I certainly never met any of the “real” actors.
I’m sure we were fed, but I don’t remember at all. I do remember that wages were $70 a day, and I was sent two checks for $70 (even though I’d only worked the one day), followed quickly by a letter asking me to destroy the second, erroneous check. I deposited both (hey, I was a starving grad student!), and both cleared.
I was an extra in Head of State, the Chris Rock movie. Max Carnage and I were at NWA:TNA wrestling the night they came to film for the movie. We ended up in the crowd. Up in the upper left, Max has got a bright orange shirt on, and I’m holding a “Mays” sign.
Not as impressive as the League of Their Own guy, but still…
At least I think I was. There were a couple of hundred other people dressed just like me, so it’s kind of hard to tell. Got me $50 and a chicken dinner. Some kid asked me for an autograph. I don’t know who he thought I was, but the look of confusion and disappointment on his face when i gave it to him was priceless.
Twice. I was part of the ballpark crowd in “The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings,” a 1976 Richard Pryor/Billy Dee Williams vehicle about Negro League baseball. Parts were filmed at Luther Williams Park in Macon, Georgia where I was living at the time.
Then, in 1995, I was part of a crowd scene on Michigan Avenue in Chicago, on the bridge over the Chicago River, in “Stuart Saves His Family.”
Neither time was I paid, nor did I meet any stars.
I was in an Erikkson* phone commercial that was shot in the Carolina Panther’s stadium in Charlotte, NC. We too had the cardboard people in every other seat. We would poke holes in their mouths and give them lit cigarettes.
It was all night long for two nights but we got $75 a night and free food. I was in college at the time so I thought it was great.
Lots of Dutch movies. As far as I know, only 2 with me in it at IMDB: ‘The Johnsons’ and ‘Deadline’. Dutch series as well, so, No, I didn’t get to meet ‘famous’ people.
Pay: $75 a longggggg day. But it’s a fun job.
The first time I was an extra, I told all my friends and family to watch that special episode with me in it.
I was in one of the early stadium shots in “Major League”. It was a while ago, so the process is a bit fuzzy, but I think you’d sign up to be an extra, get a number, and then on the news the night before they’d say which numbers they needed. Me and a couple friends lucked out that it was one of the early-on ones where the stands were mostly empty. Later on they filled the stadium with extras. I suspect a significant percentage of the city of Milwaukee wound up in that movie.
They told us to “act bored”, so in the shot where you can see us, I’ve got my feet up on the seat in front of me and they’re blocking my face. It’s just a couple of frames as they pan across the near empty stadium anyway.
I think we got free soda and hotdogs. We didn’t meet anyone.
In a few weeks I’m supposed to show up with my airsoft gear for a movie shoot. A guy I airsoft with picked a bunch of us that have accurate current US army gear. Supposedly his sister is casting a movie and they need army guy extras, but he’s not allowed to say anything more about it. I suspect it’s not going to be a big budget production if they need extras to bring their own costumes and props. With my luck it’ll be either a porno or some ultra-religious propaganda flick.
When I was in middle school, my mother and I were in Wild Hearts Can’t Be Broken, a movie about diving horses. I believe it is now out of print.
We were supposed to be in a crowd scene (they asked for signups at my middle school, to find kids for a fair scene), but they evidently liked our look or something because we got to be -paid- extras. If you look fast when they’re going to Atlantic City, they at one point crest a hill by which some migrant workers are camped. I’m the little blonde kid.
We did get paid, not very much. I don’t believe we’re in the credits, but we had a good time, I met Cliff Robertson, got lunch, spent about an hour in the makeup chair to get good and dirty and you can barely see it!
I was an extra in Born on the Fourth of July. There was a scene in a bar and I was one of the scraggly bar extras. Unfortunately that entire scene was cut. The bar was Milo’s in Dallas, next to the SMU campus. They have a bunch of pictures on the walls from the shoot. (At least they did back in the 80’s). I think I got paid around $50. I saw Willem Dafoe and Tom Cruise hanging out, but we were told to not approach them.
It was kind of amusing watching them standing around next to their wheelchairs, all strung out looking, with their crossaints and lattes.
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She seems very nice, incidentally, but she didn’t eat lunch with us IIRC. The guy who played the next door neighbor did, though; he seems pretty cool.