20-03-2019, 11:48 AM
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Have you ever been an extra in a film?
I was, in 1980 I played a schoolboy in a children's film which is long forgotten and I never got to see. I was filmed playing football, walking into the school building, and sat at a desk during an exam. The make-up lady gave me some ink smudges on my face. I was paid the princely sum of £15 (which was quite a lot of money for a 14 year old back then).Filming took 3 days at the school which is very close to where I now live.
20-03-2019, 12:13 PM
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Re: Have you ever been an extra in a film?
My brother who is 69, and lives in Bishop Auckland, is an ‘Extra’ and has appeared on, Vera and Judge John Deed. He got good pay and a meal.He has just auditioned to be a thug on Vera!
This week he did an advert for Memory pillows in a town centre and got £100 for 20 minutes work.
20-03-2019, 12:22 PM
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Re: Have you ever been an extra in a film?
Originally Posted by Artangel
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My brother who is 69, and lives in Bishop Auckland, is an ‘Extra’ and has appeared on, Vera and Judge John Deed. He got good pay and a meal.He has just auditioned to be a thug on Vera!
This week he did an advert for Memory pillows in a town centre and got £100 for 20 minutes work.
Mr M and I fancied being extras on The walking Dead ( if we lived in the US)
We felt this would not tax our acting skills !
20-03-2019, 12:45 PM
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Re: Have you ever been an extra in a film?
Originally Posted by Muddy
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Wow that's good .Mr M and I fancied being extras on The walking Dead ( if we lived in the US)
We felt this would not tax our acting skills !
They are only walk on parts like, a hospital visitor walking along a corridor!
He likes to be photographed with some of the stars as he is such a poseur!
20-03-2019, 12:46 PM
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I haven't been an extra but in the '70's a friend of mine played an American army officer in the film "Yanks" while scenes were being filmed at Happy Valley Road, Llandudno, North Wales:
That's not him in the photo but he had to wear the same type of uniform - so smart that he asked if he could keep it but, unsurprisingly, they refused .....
20-03-2019, 02:04 PM
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A member of my family by marriage (daughter of my brother’s ex wife, well one of them, lol) once appeared in Outside Edge. She just had to sit on a rug with others at the periphery of a cricket game. Noticeable by her white blonde hair.
20-03-2019, 02:18 PM
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I don,t know if this would count as an 'extra' but may years ago I was the 'star' of a TV advert. It showed me driving my lorry into a farm with a load of ICI fertilizer. It then showed me unloading the fertilizer,.
I wondered why I was issued with a brand new white pair of overalls and had my lorry cleaned and polished before I left. I was in the dark when I set out and on arrival at the farm was told to "Hang on a minute, we,re not ready yet". Pleased to say stardom did not go to my head.
20-03-2019, 02:23 PM
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Re: Have you ever been an extra in a film?
Originally Posted by Jazzi
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A member of my family by marriage (daughter of my brother’s ex wife, well one of them, lol) once appeared in Outside Edge. She just had to sit on a rug with others at the periphery of a cricket game. Noticeable by her white blonde hair.
Do you happen to know which episode she was in?
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