MSNBC The Rachel Maddow Show June 4, 2024 08:09:00
Jobs, but it's, you know, not people who have speaking roles generally. it's warm bodies in the background of a scene somewhere, particularly if you need a lot of them. people who are otherwise trying to get better gigs as actors bo will sometimes take a gig as an extra just to make extra cash. one point in my life when i had very little money and was piecing it together with multiple jobs, i worked as an extra on a few different film sets. i wasn't an actor, but you could get paid 50 bucks or 100 bucks just to stand around and do what they said and you probably wouldn't end up on camera anywa...
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