Have you ever been an extra in fillms/tv?

[StraxStrax]

I was just thinking after the thread I made about maybe getting a speaking part on Sense8 that people in The Film Room surely have had done some Extra work since they love films and tv. I do it to get on as many sets as I can to learn and make new contacts that can help on my way to become a writer and/or director.
I've been in some small TV shows, ads and short films but nothing really that great. But I was offered a job as stand-in in The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty for two days and would've gotten $700 for it but I had to rejected because my own school film I was working on.

A stand-in for film and television is a person who substitutes for the actor before filming, for technical purposes such as lighting.

Stand-ins are helpful in the initial processes of production. Lighting setup can be a slow and tedious process; during this time the actor will often be somewhere else. Stand-ins allow the director of photography to light the set, the camera department to light and focus scenes

 

[Dominic Brehetto]

I worked as re-occurring extra on a tv show called you me and the kids on the womens network when I was a teenager.


Made good money and a couple friends but found it extremely boring.

 

[Da Jungles]

Yea, I sometimes regret giving it up so quick tho

 

[Pinyapplesuckas]

i was an actor in an HBO movie as a kid with my dad. we "played" neighbors of a women who was murdered. we are seen in the scene right after the murder. my dad is talking to an officer and i'm pretending to look shocked.

 

[Bickin Back Being Bool]

I was an extra in the movie Honey, it was shot in toronto

 

[patscorpio]

no but ive audtioned to be an extra for 2 movies..back in 2007 and then 2 weeks ago

 

[Danny Up]

I had a starring role on "That's My Mama"

 

[Recca Gatsby]

How much extras make

 

[Pinyapplesuckas]

How much extras make

hunnid racks per day

 

[Poetical Poltergeist]

I played joe the policeman on the whats goin down episode of "thats my momma."

 

[Recca Gatsby]

hunnid racks per day

You bullshyttin....

 

[TheGodling]

Nope.

 

[Pinyapplesuckas]

You bullshyttin....

my bad 3 hunnid racks every 3 hours

 

[FlyRy]

I did once in college..and the movie took like 5 years to come out after

i still haven't seen it actually

i found it insanely tedious.

 

[ℒℴѵℯJay ELECTUA]

no lie/jokes..i was an extra in breakin' 2 electric boogaloo. A bunch of us from the area were all in it..