Anyone on here been a film/tv extra?

Being made redundant end of september and really don't want another full on factory/workshop tech type of job. Always hankered about doing this or similar role so has anyone on here done it or is doing it now? maybe some of the pitfalls could be disclosed as i've heard good and bad.

 

@Barry Haynes had a small part in a number of 1970s “films”.

 

Me and the wife were on first dates......mainly just sat and got drunk though.....

 

Yeah that not what i'm into really

 

Doesn’t @jivedubbin do the extra thing?

 

Just be careful of the dodgy agencies with the promise of work if you pay them.

One of my cousins daughter's has been on Emmerdale and a few of the kids programmes but she's abroad at the minute so can't ask her how she went about it.

 

Probably heard you can be a bit of a diva

 

So you're good at climbing trees then?

 

@crossy2112 actually played Chewbacca in several Star Wars films. They made him take his flat cap off, tho’

 

I've been the extra mile

 

Not true, if you look carefully you can see it under the suit

 

That’s Swampy you’re thinking of. Think he became a hedge fund manager.

 

I was once in the studio audience of “Thank your lucky stars” my nan told everyone to look out for me

 

I was on the One Show at the Edinburgh Fringe a couple of years back. You could clearly see the tree I was stood behind.

 

Been in the audience of Jeremy Kyle and realized how stage managed it is.

 

Our next door neighbour became an extra a few years ago.
I know that he had to get an equity card and because there was already a 'Tony Jackson' he became 'Byron T Jackson'.
An odd looking bloke in a long coat with wooly hair and a hat soon became a regular visitor to the back ground of Casualty & the Bill etc.
Then he & his wife, Val moved down to Cornwall to make things out of crap they found on the beach.

 

Your off the Xmas card list

 

There's a lot of that down there.