A Star is Born in the Background – How to get Extra Work
Who wouldn’t want to win an Oscar? Or star in a box-office smash? Or argue with having their name in lights on the marquis? Not many of us! You know what you never see on that marquis though? The entire list of background extras that starred in that movie right alongside that box-office bombshell or leading man.
Ah, the life of the background extra. If youv’e worked as an extra before, or even seen any of Ricky Gervais’ hilarious look at the life of background actors on his show, Extras, you might know that the job of an extra is largely uncredited, with long days in varying degrees of comfort on crazy sets that are often mindlessly dull. So what’s the point? The point is, the film & television industry would be nothing without those essential, overwhelmingly important set of cast members: the extras.