Film extras ... anyone done any work ?

[richardtheref]

I was an extra in the TV series "The Outsiders" which was based on the film with Tom Cruise.
Me & my mates did not realise at the time that 2 of the stars in the series were Leonardo DiCaprio & Billy Bob Thornton before they were famous. Only shown in the states so have never seen it. We are in episode 9 called Carnival. You would be able to spot me as I wore the City away top at the time, the purple & white stripe one, and was in the front row at the boxing match. God knows how the director was going to sell a City fan showing up in 1950s Nebraska or Oklahoma or wherever it was set.

 

[allblackcitizen]

I was in an episode of A Very Peculiar Practice in the mid/late 80's, as they were always filming on the Birmingham Uni campus. Got a fiver and a nice lunch, from memory.

A friend does a lot of extra work and gets the odd small speaking part. She's made a career out of it, and makes reasonable money. Most recently she was in The Bodyguard. She does a lot of ads as well. It helps to live in London.

 

[BimboBob]

Call: Howard's Way.
Job: Drunken crowd scenes.
Pay: Beer. Lots of lovely beer.

 

[mindmyp's_n_q's]

Our daughter has been picked for an extra in Emmerdale,which is to be shown within the next 2/3 weeks.
She travels to Leeds this coming Friday for filming and gets £100 per day.
Not a bad wage if you can get regular work.
Anyone else appeared as an extra ?

I have driven cars in a few tv shows. Nothing flash and only been on TV fleetingly a couple of times. Had a days filming with Ruth Wilson for a film called black river and at the start when she drives down the road i am lay in the back as I had to keep returning the car to it's starting marks for retakes.

The food is fantastic, you all eat the same as everyone on set. I was paid a day rate (only helping out a pal) and you can be on set anything from 5mins ( I have turned up before and been sent straight home) to 23 hours. The rate stays the same.

 

[Bigga]

I did two days shoot for 'Lovejoy' (I think was a horse racing scene) and got £40 a day.

I did a 30 sec voice over ad and got £3.5k.

How the fook does that happen...??

 

[oakiecokie]

Doubled for Frank Cannon !

Were you the fucker that ate all the pies ??

 

[BlueMoonRisin’]

Was in a daz advert but not saying which one

Did you have to grin at the camera when the shit stain washed out of a white cotton sheet on a 30°wash?

 

[Le Havre Oswald]

Did you have to grin at the camera when the shit stain washed out of a white cotton sheet on a 30°wash?

Ye n a little nod

 

[Indaparkside]

When we played spurs in the cup and we got on the pitch chased by coppers everywhere. Does that count even in the papers next day so doubly famous:)

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

Someone on here must have been in the crowd at Jimmy Grimble's cup final.
I was going to go with my daughters, then aged 8 and 6 but on the day it was too nippy for them to be hanging around all day so didn't go, which I regret. My mate Garry is on it, he buys a programme from the blind feller