2017-04-20 12:12
Fred Astaire was not only a star of Hollywood musicals but also an impeccable dresser. His custom tailcoats were so well tailored they remained perfectly placed throughout the mos… Read More
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The trials and tribulations of doing movie-extras work in NYC (while waiting for a paying job to come along).
2016-03-19 18:53
A very busy month...that included a zombie-series!It doesn't get any better than this... It's the reason I do this work.Other gigs this month included:The Good Wife- got to see Jule's acting… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
One of the most snowy settings on Park Avenue in NYC was during the first week of February. It was an external shoot for Believe where the child-star of the show stops a posh Bentley i… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
Blue Bloods broke the ice... in a manner of speaking, for my first gig in this icicled January of 2014. The episode entitled "Manhattan Queens" made sense only when I saw it air tonigh… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
The set was at Washington Square Park on a sultry hot summer day in NYC. My partner and I were slated to be chess player extras but the scene was changed and we were recast as bystande… Read More
2015-12-24 15:04
And so this year draws to a close... and so does my blogging!I've worked at being a background actor and loved it... not sure what direction I'll be going in for 2016. Got my 3 waivers… Read More
2015-11-04 15:54
Trouble is, 99.9999% of the time, there's no result -even if you get a call back!The other day I went for an audition about a popular drink... making a comeback. I was paired up with a… Read More
2015-09-09 13:50
Fred Astaire was not only a star of Hollywood musicals but also an impeccable dresser. His custom tailcoats were so well tailored they remained perfectly placed throughout the mos… Read More
2015-04-08 22:49
To join...or not to join?With all of my moaning and groaning about how SAG union people get to do everything first, I've decided that I'm not going to join up. All my old friends and e… Read More
2015-02-16 16:52
It's really weird when you're called to do extras work (usually very early in the morning) and you go through wardrobe, makeup and hair -sit around for eight to ten hours in holding... and n… Read More
2015-01-21 15:30
Finally got my own fedora* into a show! In past gigs it was always selected for me from "wardrobe's" closets.Flashback:It was during a summer rainstorm that my wife and I were running… Read More
2015-01-21 15:15
She enters... I sneerBack to the Long Island monastery... St. Josephat's in Glen Cove. The last time I was here was for a TV series Zero Hour (as a monk) -this time I've been cast as an uppe… Read More
2015-01-05 15:49
Purchase SUNY's Performing Arts Center has a magnificent modern theater. I say that because I was an audience member for the TV series Mozart In The Jungle, which was shooting there. … Read More
2015-01-05 15:48
2014 ends with a melange of bookings!I was called for Blue Bloods twice. Once as a relative of an officer in a promotion ceremony and weeks later as a witness. The latter was thr… Read More
2014-12-29 17:39
I was almost sure that I'd be sitting June out. Many of the recent extra gigs have been primarily doled out to SAG/AFTRA people. And there doesn't seem to be any big demand for a… Read More
2014-12-19 15:01
My summer high-profile temp job's contract ended and now I'm back to the world of being anonymous again as an extra. I consider this a wonderful privilege. Being a consultant can… Read More
2014-12-14 18:43
Paul Haggis and Oscar IsaacNah...it wasn't me. I wasn't the "hero". But I did get a call to Yonkers for doing a politico-type of bg role for Show Me A Hero - HBO's upcoming… Read More
2014-08-04 00:12
The KnickSnuggled up in my car during the wee hours on a cold Autumn day a few months ago, I was nodding off after our "picture cars" were not going to be used in the Person Of Interest scen… Read More
2014-08-03 23:36
It's 1931 in the Boardwalk Empire sagaMay was kind of a slow month also... but then Boardwalk Empire began to pick up steam and I was on board once again. I was cast as a Shriner insid… Read More
2014-05-26 04:28
I got to set early in the morning at Brooklyn's courthouse district because I knew that parking here would be difficult. Luckily I was able to squeeze into a small spot (thanks to my t… Read More
2014-05-16 21:00
I was traveling to California in April and couldn't really work much this month until I got back to NY. So the only show I worked was Royal Pains. Luckily it was a very colorful… Read More
2014-05-07 03:20
While in the role of a hot-dog man ("roll" pun intended) during one of my movie stints last week (in this case it was American Hustle), one of the bystanders came up to me and asked about th… Read More
2013-10-21 13:19
It's funny how watching one show can create a certain kind of subjective-inertia. It all started with me receiving an offer to view free TV shows via my iPad. One of them was about the… Read More
2013-10-16 00:03
Episode aired 10/14/2013It was a great day in Yonkers, NY when we did our background gigs at the courthouse. Only a couple of us were picked to be part of the lawyerish scene wherein t… Read More
2013-07-09 14:10
Or, as the vivacious mayor of the fictional town might have put it: WTF DID THEY GO?The premise for this HBO movie is that 2% of the people vanish from the face of the earth -no one knows wh… Read More
2013-06-04 16:00
Although I didn't think I'd be used again this season because of my politician role earlier, I was pleasantly surprised by the cast-call to be a banker. A slightly different hairstyle… Read More
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