Do I blame the extra agency or the show?
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Feb 16th, 2011 |
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It’s surreal when you’re an extra without a superb look. By superb I mean you can pass for any age, look etc. and there’s nothing they can’t include you in. You’re not too ethnic, or have red hair or whatnot… That’s what it seems casting directors cannot stand, “Those damned redheads” – well, the males anyway.
Either way, I’m living hand to mouth, cheque to cheque, whatever it may be. I need the money I’m owed, and whilst waiting on my girlfriend to pick it up, I get the phone call. “Babe?” “Yes…” “They don’t have it.”
Now they’re claiming I’ve picked it up, which I haven’t. So right now I’m livid and worrying what I’m to do.
I love being an extra. How many days have I been on set this month? Oh yes, none.