be an extra in a film

Back when they were still filming Dark Knight here in Chicago I heard that they needed a LOT of extras. They were even passing out flyers at one point, I believe, for the amount of extras needed! So, since one of my friends was a MAJOR Batman fiend, I adviced him to check it out, you know? To see if it was legit.

And it turned out it was! I was so stoked for him! Hopefully he’ll be in it, even for a few second sin the backround lol

It’ll be like trying to find Waldo in the movie!

Eh. Well, Once, but after doing it a million times, not so much.

I hope to do this.

this’d be sweet, esp if it was some sort of big budget film

I’d love to do this :) Preferably in a half decent film too, even if it was a split second in a crowd scene i’d be happy :)

Had the oppportunity once but turned it down. Haha been a “voice” extra before- not that you could distinguish my voice or anything- but hey its a start.

My brother lives in Chicago and he always has opportunities to be an extra in films. He told me that they are filming the Dark Knight in Chicago. It’s great that he has all the opportunities and I would like to visit him again soon so perhaps then. But what more could I do since I live in Bumfuck, ND?

I was an extra in a film documentary about Olegas Truchanas and Peter Dombrovskis (two award-winning, internationally recognised nature photographers), called “Wildness”. It won the AFI award for Best Documentary in 2003.
There is a shot of lots of people in the 1970s coming to watch a set of slides shot by the two photographers, and I was in a blue jumper. You can see the back of my right shoulder and my hair in a backwards-tracking shot. It only took an afternoon, and our Mayor was there, too. We had to walk through a room about half a dozen times, then take the same seats and look interested in the slide show, which consisted of one photograph of some guy snowboarding.

A colleague of mine read about an open call for extras for Spiderman several years ago. A huge fan of Spidey, I couldn’t say no, so we both got up in the pre-dawn darkness, rode an hour to a comic book store on Melrose, then boarded a school bus with several other sleepy-eyed hopefuls for the set (another hour/hour-and-a-half away).


It’s the street fair scene where there’s a band playing and the Green Goblin flies in and bombs the place all to hell.


It only takes place for a minute or two on the screen, but was a full two-day shoot (I was only there for one day).

THE GOOD: I can always point to that movie and say “I was in that.” Also, I got to see the Green Goblin’s costume in person, and much sooner than would have been made available to the public (although nowadays it’s impossible to keep things like that under wraps).

THE NOT-SO-GOOD: Long day with lots of downtime, which wouldn’t be so bad, but to fill the scene they bussed in many kids from the local high schools. It truly was like those anxiety dreams where you find yourself back in high school except you’re at your current age, and can’t believe that at one point in your past you actually acted like this.


My final recommendation: DO IT! Google “hollywood extras” and see what comes back…you’re bound to find listings of movies that are in need of extras, especially if you’re close to major cities like LA, NY, or (probably less so) Chicago.


Either way, you can always point to the DVD while you’re in Blockbuster with your friends and say “I was in that!”

I would LOVE to be an extra in a period film and get to dress like the people in that time. Sadly, there are very little films filmed in my area, so maybe when I have a car and can move around xD