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webuster · 08-24-2003, 09:40 AM

Has anyone here ever been an extra in a movie? Have you ever got paid for it?
About an hour and a half/2 hours away from me they are filming the new knights of the round table film with Keira Knightley, and apparently they paid thousands of punds for all the extras, and after they did a practise of the scene they decided not to use them. The films very much overbudget currently- but they might need extras again, I'd love to be an extra but I wouldn't go 2 hours away, cos I think they only hire locals- even though this is one of the few times they film movies on location in the UK- there's always sitcoms...
Apparently, the director wants everything authentic- furniture, coins, walls- the moss on set got damaged so he spents thousands to have sum brought in from galway- it's freakin' dirt!
Studio execs are meant to fly in to inspect it- It'll probably be top of the box office but at the rate money is spent, number 1 just won't be enough. It may just go the way of Cleopatra.
Then again- executives may stop production- even though almost half the film is supposedly filmed

Josh9125 · 08-24-2003, 11:28 AM

One of my cousins was an extra in I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER....he didn't get paid but his school band did (he was in the parade scene marching)...and one of my cousins was an extra on Dawson's Creek and she was there and hour and go $40 dollars.

animalcrackers · 08-25-2003, 08:02 AM

My uncle's wife was an extra in "Seabiscuit". She did get paid, but I don't know how much. She got to wear period clothes. She said she had fun.

Crimson and Clover · 08-25-2003, 02:20 PM

no but a friend of mine was an extra in Carrie 2. Hes the guy near the beginning of the movie walking behind Emily Bergl (Rachael) he had purple hair.

webuster · 08-29-2003, 04:24 PM

I'm a fan of the book 'Carrie' but haven't seen either films. I'd love to be an extra-but I'd just go crazy, like if I was some extra on little shop of horrors i'd hang about the plant all day- it'd be cool to not jsut be a regular extra in regular clothes, but be in a movie where you get to wear period clothes-or alien otufits. Is there sumwhere you can register to become and extra?

Alot of extras are currently being used on The Stepford Wives, and I'm dying to know what happens! One paper reported filming has paused cos of rewrites and Nicole Kidman being difficult, but extras on imdb, and people visiting the set (i didn't know you could visit a set if your cousin was art designer) say Kidman's doing very well, and she's great with the filming. But none of them replied yet to anything else. Apparently at the end Chris Walken gets beheaded (i'd love to see it) but it's being rewritten-damn! The final scene was meant to be shot a while ago, apparently it's not out till may next year- I don't know why it's so long, maybe there's going to be one of those big big big big advertising and promotion campaigns- alot of films are shot and released within the year now. Someone said they saw a part of the film with the newly enhanced Bette Midler, cos she's been replaced by a robot. Can't wait to see it. If any of you get to be extras on a film post what you saw please!

Brian Damage · 08-29-2003, 05:50 PM

My friend does alot of Extra work. He was in Serendipity, K-Pax and The Sopranos.

Penny Lane · 08-29-2003, 07:20 PM

Here I am with Paul McCartney in A Hard Day's Night.

I wish!

08-24-2003, 09:40 AM	#1
webuster Member Senior Member Join Date: Aug 26, 2002 Posts: 2,150	Movie Extras? Has anyone here ever been an extra in a movie? Have you ever got paid for it? About an hour and a half/2 hours away from me they are filming the new knights of the round table film with Keira Knightley, and apparently they paid thousands of punds for all the extras, and after they did a practise of the scene they decided not to use them. The films very much overbudget currently- but they might need extras again, I'd love to be an extra but I wouldn't go 2 hours away, cos I think they only hire locals- even though this is one of the few times they film movies on location in the UK- there's always sitcoms... Apparently, the director wants everything authentic- furniture, coins, walls- the moss on set got damaged so he spents thousands to have sum brought in from galway- it's freakin' dirt! Studio execs are meant to fly in to inspect it- It'll probably be top of the box office but at the rate money is spent, number 1 just won't be enough. It may just go the way of Cleopatra. Then again- executives may stop production- even though almost half the film is supposedly filmed

08-25-2003, 02:20 PM	#4
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08-29-2003, 07:20 PM	#7
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08-24-2003, 11:28 AM	#2
Josh9125 Member Senior Member Join Date: Mar 19, 2001 Location: Sunset Beach, NC Posts: 2,912	One of my cousins was an extra in I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER....he didn't get paid but his school band did (he was in the parade scene marching)...and one of my cousins was an extra on Dawson's Creek and she was there and hour and go $40 dollars.

08-25-2003, 08:02 AM	#3
animalcrackers Member Senior Member Join Date: Jul 24, 2002 Location: The Backseat Of Fonzie's Bike Posts: 1,603	My uncle's wife was an extra in "Seabiscuit". She did get paid, but I don't know how much. She got to wear period clothes. She said she had fun.

08-29-2003, 04:24 PM	#5
webuster Member Senior Member Join Date: Aug 26, 2002 Posts: 2,150	I'm a fan of the book 'Carrie' but haven't seen either films. I'd love to be an extra-but I'd just go crazy, like if I was some extra on little shop of horrors i'd hang about the plant all day- it'd be cool to not jsut be a regular extra in regular clothes, but be in a movie where you get to wear period clothes-or alien otufits. Is there sumwhere you can register to become and extra? Alot of extras are currently being used on The Stepford Wives, and I'm dying to know what happens! One paper reported filming has paused cos of rewrites and Nicole Kidman being difficult, but extras on imdb, and people visiting the set (i didn't know you could visit a set if your cousin was art designer) say Kidman's doing very well, and she's great with the filming. But none of them replied yet to anything else. Apparently at the end Chris Walken gets beheaded (i'd love to see it) but it's being rewritten-damn! The final scene was meant to be shot a while ago, apparently it's not out till may next year- I don't know why it's so long, maybe there's going to be one of those big big big big advertising and promotion campaigns- alot of films are shot and released within the year now. Someone said they saw a part of the film with the newly enhanced Bette Midler, cos she's been replaced by a robot. Can't wait to see it. If any of you get to be extras on a film post what you saw please!

08-29-2003, 05:50 PM	#6
Brian Damage I'm Rich Bitch Forum Icon Join Date: Feb 03, 2002 Location: What Ain't No Country I Ever Heard Of...They Speak English in What? Posts: 63,107	My friend does alot of Extra work. He was in Serendipity, K-Pax and The Sopranos.