Life of an extra

I don’t know how I got into this, but I spent the past 2 days being an extra in an experimental film. The film is 40 minutes long and without any actors really, so technically speaking extras are sort of stars in this film. The days started very early and ended rather late, but most of the time I just discussed football match with the sound engineer or teach yoga to other extras. Another essential activity was to choose which plate for lunch, which usually took at least half an hour. I honestly don’t know why they would need all those equipments and cables and that huge van, but at any given time, there was always someone running around because there was one piece of equipment missing. I consider my debut as an extra a great success, because a) I managed not to trip over those rails built for movement of the camera while crossing over to the other side of the room; b) none of my scenes exceeded a 3rd take; c) I found a way to force my phone number to the cute sound engineer without the awareness of rest of the crew.

Now the only thing left for me to do: wait for that phone call and become famous!

Welcome to the life of an extra.

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