# What movie(s) are you in? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 23, 2009, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-s-are-you-in/500696 "2009-06-23T07:25:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2009, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-s-are-you-in/500696/41 "2009-06-24T04:43:14Z")
Remind me, Idle Thoughts, and I’ll try to get you a ticket for the premier of my latest feature. We wrapped production in April and it should be ready by this fall. I don’t have a concrete date yet because directors are weird about festivals and festivals are just weird. ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2009, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-s-are-you-in/500696/42 "2009-06-24T07:23:41Z")
> [@Justin\_Bailey](#): > > Swimfan? Yes I think that’s it! Also, my friend Karen was in a Queer Eye episode and my exboyfriend was in a Trading Spaces episode lol. Oh and I was interviewed on camera for a documentary about Burning Man in 1998 but I haven’t tried to track it down. ---
**Author:** ![Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/face_intentionally_left_blank/32/288_2.png) [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Face_Intentionally_Left_Blank)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2009, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-s-are-you-in/500696/43 "2009-06-24T08:06:21Z")
I played a refugee from America in _The Fire Next Time_, with Craig T. Nelson and Bonnie Bedelia, a mini-series shot in Pittsburgh in 1993. I was in the long line outside the Canadian refugee center, but you can’t see me there. My friend and I had the idea to be at the end of the line, so it would be easy to spot us, but they never showed the end. ☹ Later, they show a panning shot inside the “refugee center” in which a heavyset guy with a beard and a suitcase is walking left to right, then pauses. That’s me. Probably easier to see is another shot that ends with the 2 kids looking at a newspaper with the headline, “Alaska secedes from the U.S.” I’m in the shot a few seconds prior to the newspaper closeup, walking up the aisle towards the camera between 2 border guards. In all, a little more than 15 seconds on-screen. My friend, a veteran extra, was pissed I had screen time and he didn’t 😃 The old factory where it was shot was in pretty bad condition. I wandered off-set a bit during a break, but I cut that short when I got the impression I could have easily injured myself and no one would find me for a long time. Also, the black stuff they put in the air to make it murky-looking came out my nose for 2 days. Nasty. Though I gave directions on how to find me, I don’t recommend it. It’s not a very good mini-series, and I’m not so good-looking as to make it worth suffering through. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Umbriel2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/4af34b/32.png) [@Umbriel2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Umbriel2)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2009, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-s-are-you-in/500696/44 "2009-06-24T15:20:58Z")
I’m an extra in the opera scenes in _The Age of Innocence_. I sat in the first row of the audience at the Philadelphia Academy of Music, in the rightmost seat facing the stage. I’m in the background in the opening scenes with Daniel Day Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer, Winona Ryder, and Geraldine Chaplin talking in their proscenium box, but I’m really only discernable at the point where some of the actors move around in the box. ---
**Author:** ![Floppy\_Joe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3bc359/32.png) [@Floppy\_Joe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Floppy_Joe)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2009, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-s-are-you-in/500696/45 "2009-06-24T16:09:51Z")
> [@Ruffian](#): > > Hey, there you are! I mentioned you and wifey in the True Blood thread in this forum, but I couldn’t remember your screenname. > > Am I right that that’s you getting your hair tousled by an impressively tall blond in the dancing scene? Howdy again! 🙂 :Bubble Burst: Sorry, not me. I’ll have to look for that one. I’m sitting in a booth, and I get a couple of face-shots. That’s about it. ---
**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2009, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-s-are-you-in/500696/46 "2009-06-24T17:22:10Z")
> [@thwartme](#): > > My feature film work isn’t released yet (Indy films take 4EVAR) but I’ve been in recent episodes of the TV shows “Flashpoint” and “The Listener”. As a speaking role? I really enjoy Flashpoint, and while The Listener’s lead actor is totally adorable, I have a feeling they’re going to run out of plot ideas soon. > [@Zsofia](#): > > I’ve been in or involved in all sorts of stuff my boyfriend has worked on, but you’re pretty unlikely to have seen any of it. > > When I was in middle school, my mom and I were featured extras in _Wild Hearts Can’t Be Broken_, which is a Disney movie about high diving horses. When they’re on their way to Atlantic City, they pass a broken down camp of migrants. You see two people (sort of silhouetted against the sun) - the blonde girl is me, the other one is my mother. It was really eye opening, how much effort was put into this little bit of screen business you can barely see. I mean, there were smoke pellets for our fire, we had elaborate costumes, we had beans we were dishing out and pretending to eat, and you can barely even see us in the movie! > > So I have these weird Social Security summaries - I have, like, five hundred bucks for 1991, and then nothing for years. You should be getting a couple fractions of a cent for that movie from 2006, because I went out and bought it _twice_ for my sister’s birthday! It was one of her favourite movies as a kid. Canada Post was nice enough to lose the first package, so when they sent me money to cover the cost of the movie, I bought it again and shipped it a second time. That one did make it, though it somehow took 3 weeks (rather than the expected 1 week for that package rate). I swear one day they will find a postal worker in Charlottetown with an apartment full of stolen mail, because getting something to my sister is damn near impossible! ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2009, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-s-are-you-in/500696/47 "2009-06-24T17:34:20Z")
My deal wasn’t so grandiose as to involve points, so unfortunately I didn’t receive any of your largesse. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2009, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-s-are-you-in/500696/48 "2009-06-24T18:19:34Z")
I was an extra in the miniseries _Into the West_. I was one of the mountain men in the tent city in (IIRC) Episode 1. You can see me in various crowd shots where we were all gathered to watch an auction and a duel, but my best appearance was standing behind two of the leads who were talking in the saloon. Those who know me had no trouble recognizing me in that scene. I was even in one of the stills that was in the novelization of the story. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2009, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-s-are-you-in/500696/49 "2009-06-24T18:40:50Z")
> [@ArchiveGuy](#): > > 😕 She may not exactly be a household name, but she’s had a long, busy career and is a regular presence on television. I think it’s because we expected her to the next it girl after Scent of a Woman. I watch a lot of TV and movies and my thoughts on her are “Scent of a Woman, disappeared, wow, she’s back in a crappy Lifetime movie and looking really old”. Maybe I just haven’t watched the right things. ---
**Author:** ![Shawn1767](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Shawn1767](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shawn1767)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2009, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-s-are-you-in/500696/50 "2009-06-24T21:20:34Z")
The year before Katrina hit, they filmed a movie called “Glory Road” here in the New Orleans’ area during the summer. I’m an extra in that movie as are a couple of my relatives. I had to chop my hair into a buzz cut and wear a sweater in an indoor gym for two days without A/C while they filmed footage of the first game they played. You can see me in a few of the far shots, I’m in the sparsely populated stands about 3 or 4 rows behind the home team bench. In that same sequence, I am in the shot in the background when the two boosters are complaining about black kids being on the starting line-up (the movie is about the first all-black NCAA basketball starting lineup at UTEP in the 60s) The two extras I was sitting with were not into the filming and complained the whole time. I loved the experience and thought it was fascinating to be able to watch the movie being made. I also like the fact that when I go to the DVD rack at Target or Walmart, I know there is (usually) a movie there with me in it! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-s-are-you-in/500696.md?page=2)