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And They Usually Have To Bring Their Own-The Blander, The Better.
For the Homeland finale, I wore a pair of leggings and a raincoat for a solid week.” 6. “The production assistant will take your picture for continuity to make sure you haven’t taken off a necklace or something. “You’ve gotta wear the same clothes every day,” Rogers says. Extras are meticulously examined for accidental inconsistencies in their wardrobes.
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To create the illusion that a scene is happening in real-time, rather than over a series of hours or days, every little detail must remain the same in each shot and from every angle. Extras Have Been Wearing the Same Duds for Days.
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“My 2003 Toyota Camry has been in more TV shows than I have. “They want boring cars that will never be noticed on screen,” says Steve D’Avria, an extra in The Hunger Games and Homeland. The same rule applies if your car is featured in a scene. “They call that a ‘bump’ in the business,” she says. Non-union extras usually get paid minimum hourly wage, but according to Rogers, they get a small pay increase if they’re asked to smoke in a scene. On Mad Men, for example, the actors smoked herbal cigarettes that didn’t contain nicotine or tar (which is great, considering Jon Hamm reportedly smoked 74 of them shooting the pilot alone). When actors smoke on set, they’re usually not sucking on real cigarettes. (This approach also apparently makes for festive centerpieces.) 4. Or, for the ultimate cheat, plastic wrap can be put in a cup filled with water to resemble crushed ice, according to Gale Nemec, who teaches a workshop for background actors. “You’ll stand there with a glass of vinegar for eight hours.” And because filming can be a long and mind-numbingly repetitive process, nobody has time to replace melting ice cubes, so they’ll use gelatin ice cubes. “Vinegar is sometimes used to approximate the texture and viscosity of booze,” Rogers says. There will be bottles that have been cleaned out and their labels removed and fake labels put on.” Apple juice is a good substitute for beer, according to Beaudreault: “Or it’ll be seltzer with a little food coloring in it. But film sets are no place for drunk actors, so the props team uses a number of tricks to fool the camera, some less appetizing than others. While posing as party-goers in bar scenes, extras need something to fill their cups. What Looks Like Booze On Camera Isn't Actually Alcohol. “A fun way to distract yourself in downtime was to open up your backpack and pop bubbles,” Francis says. On the set of Easy A, which was set in a high school, extras had to wear backpacks stuffed with bubble wrap to make them seem full. “There are days you get to set and you wait and wait and you never get used,” says Amy Rogers, a regular extra featured in TV shows including Homeland and Banshee, “or you work all day and the footage never gets used.”Įxtras spend their down time in a designated “holding” area reading or playing card games. And a lot of that time is spent just sitting around waiting to be used in a scene, or repeating a single shot a dozen times.
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Extras Have to Do a Lot of Hurry-Up-and-Wait on Set.ĭays on set can be excruciatingly long, sometimes lasting more than 15 hours and starting at odd times or ending at the crack of dawn. These guys would learn where the camera was going and redo their vector so they walked in front of it.” That’s a quick way to get a slap on the wrist from the director or a production assistant.
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“It’s a silent vie for control,” says Dillon Francis, a Los Angeles-based actor who was an extra on the movie Easy A back in 2010. “But there are definitely people who do that.”Īnd there are always a few extras on set trying desperately to stay in front of the camera. “I didn’t do it because I saw it as some backdoor into acting or anything,” says Jason Feifer, who was an extra in a scene of the 2004 film Jersey Girl. Most of the people you see in the background of a film or TV show have other jobs and are just doing extra work for fun. “You’re not gonna get your big break as an extra,” says Claire Beaudreault, who has been an extra on shows including Orange Is The New Black, GIRLS, and Law & Order: SVU.
The chances of using background acting as a foray into stardom are pretty slim. Here are a few insights on what it’s like to get paid to blend into the background. But while we’re obsessed with movie stars, we never hear much about the people moving around behind them-because by design, we’re not supposed to pay them any attention. Without them, most movie and TV scenes would be empty and unrealistic. Background actors are the unsung heroes of television.
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