Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Kate Middleton Envy? Who? Me?


Extra! Extra! Read All About It!


In the past few months I've been an extra on a few TV shows. I'd like to do more, but for whatever mysterious reason, they don't always want me. I try not to take it personally.

Anyone, literally anyone who is legal to work in the US, can be an extra. No skills required. You register for $25 at Central Casting and you, too, can be an extra. If they want you.

Why wouldn't they want me more frequently? Well, first of all, the pictures that they take make those at the DMV look like portraits by Annie Liebovitz. Terrible, awful pictures.

Perhaps also, I'm tall, so don't fit their wardrobes. I think that's true.

And the final issue is that you never know what time a certain day you will start or finish, so you can literally have no commitments at all the entire day. So that makes it harder to do.

What's the pay? Minimal. $75-85 for up to 10 hours of work. But they feed you. And you can be on screen for several seconds as I got to be on an episode of Law and Order: SVU. 7 seconds, baby.