EXTRAS WANTED
Thanks for your interest in being an extra for Macon Blair’s currently Untitled feature film.
Macon Blair is making his writing and directorial debut after his role in upcoming theatrical release Green Room and his triumphant performance in 2013’s Blue Ruin. We’re looking for background performers to breath life into the streets and houses of Portland for his movie. It’s gonna be great!
SHOOT DATES: We shoot from the end of March until early May.
LOCATION: Portland, OR
We’ll be shooting in Portland’s streets, cafes, backyards, homes, and basement rock venues. Something you might not have noticed about these places is that they’re full of people – in the film, these people are going to be you!
We’re looking for these specific kinds of extras:
Infants
Monster Truck Rally audiences
Fancy Restaurant Diners
House party kids
Thrift Store Shoppers
And we’re going to pay you $9.25/hour to be you in these places! You’ll be rich!
Annoying and not-annoying facts about extra-ing:
- Extra-ing takes all day long and mostly what you do is wait, sit and wait some more. Bring a book, or if you can’t read, a shiny object to stare at. You might bring an electronic object, but keep in mind that electricity will be limited and the extras wrangler (who will, honestly, wrangle you like you’ve never been wrangled before) will not have time to adjudicate arguments about “hogging the AC” between extras.
- It happens during the day, during the night, on weekdays and weekends – often during times when you might otherwise be working or in school.
- You’ll need to become an actual employee of the production, so if you are on the run from the law, accept only cash or have any other reason you couldn’t bring the documents needed to fill out the IRS’s I-9 and W-4 forms, you can’t be an extra. I blame either the 1%, the IRS, or the Gnomes of Zurich, depending on what blogs I’ve been reading.
- We might contact you on very short notice, like, the night before, hours before, or any time. If you’ve already made plans for that time, we’ll be sad, but totally, totally understand in a not at all guilt-trippy or passive aggressive way.
If you’re interested in being an extra, click the following link and fill out the form and upload some photos!
Extras: to submit your information and photos via electronic form.
If the form fails or you can’t connect, you can also email photos of yourself along with phone and email info to:
roskoextras@gmail.com
Actors with headshots+resumes, please instead email them to:
submissions@smhcasting.com