Anyone ever been an extra in a movie?

I was a student at the LSU football game when they filmed the game scenes for Everybody's All American. I was the drunk one.

I played a dead guy in a movie that never got released when I was in school at Texas. I wasn't killed on screen I was just laying dead on the ground with a blood pooling under me and a bullet wound to my chest. It was for a bank robbery scene gone wrong in an action movie. We weren't really given any more info than that, I'm not sure who the "hero" was going to be as they weren't on set, the scene was just to set up the bad guys.

They told us they'd email us with movie title and release date so we could see ourselves in the movie. Never heard back from them then a year later I got an email telling me the movie had been canceled but they wanted to keep my scene in case they ever wanted to use it for something else. They said they'd contact me again if they ever used it and they've never gotten back to me so I assume they didn't use it.

Never did anything for Hollywood. Had a chance to be an extra once for the new Ben afflwck movie but they didn't have a costume for my size and I would have been paid like 1/3 of the rate for another acting job that was a more enjoyable project I so I didn't. I'm too tall anyway for me to be included in too much anyway

I work in the business. Extras get long hours, low pay, usually lower end lunches and few breaks. Every family member that says they want to do it I tell them not to bother. The business is almost dead in Louisiana too. Many are leaving for Georgia.

I did it once. It was interesting for the first couple of hours, then it got pretty boring. It's a lot of doing the same thing over and over, with a lot of waiting around in between.

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No doubt. I've been an extra a few times and it's a really bad time/$ ratio. One plus can be that if you're single you have all day to work your game.

One of the films ended up giving me a named character and my own shot. I was terrible.

No but I auditioned to be the Green Power Ranger in 1986. Didn't get it but was cool wearing the suit

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I was in a few between 2011-2013

- G I Joe Retaliation
- Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter
- The Campaign
- The Bultler

It was fun and you got to meet a lot of interesting people. As a movie fan, it was great to see all that went into movie making. Got to meet a lot big name actors including Will Ferrell. Bad part is you get treated like shite most of the times. A lot of times we had to be on set at 6am and we weren't needed until 6pm that night. A lot of sitting around waiting to be called over.

I'm glad I did it but I'll never do it again.

Not sure what you are asking why too? If to why is Lousiana about to die for movies? They lowered their tax incentive. Low enough to get productions to look other places. The state will get one to two big movies a year. This year I think they have Gambit and Wolverine? They have the tv show scream and NCIS. Scream Queens moved to California. Georgia is really busy at the moment and many film crew members have been transferring there this past year. Film production see signs of a state losing their incentive and they go to more stable states.