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In 2002 I knew someone looking for extras in some low budget sci fi movie being made in Austin. I showed up and they cast me as one of the aliens. It was only two days and I think I made $100.

The movie was never released as far as I know, so it wasn’t like I was in a real movie. But I got to go through makeup and wardrobe and get coached on set, and then got to hear “action!” while I walked across a room and pointed at someone or something. Best I got.

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The Bad News Bears In Breaking Training

A family friend got several of us in The Dome for the filming and we started in the outfield, but during the "let them play" scene they needed more people behind the dugout so we were moved there....never have been able to see any of us in the film, but we are in that crowd somewhere

I think the adults got $25 dollars and the kids for $45 or something like that because of union rules and kids "working".....we also skipped school to do it 

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I was interviewed in a documentary, but that's not a movie and did not qualify for SAG card status.  In high school, I was in a gallery crowd while filming Tin Cup, but I don't think any of the shots or angles where our group stood were used in the final cut. My FIL was one of the dudes that opened the giant gate in the most recent King Kong reboot.

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I was in the Fabulous Thunderbirds How Do You Spell Love music video filmed at the Austin Opera House.  I only saw the video once on MTV and its apparently been erased from the earth.  We were there for a couple hours, the length of a movie, so it counts.

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25 minutes ago, Jerry Callo said:

I was in the Fabulous Thunderbirds How Do You Spell Love music video filmed at the Austin Opera House.  I only saw the video once on MTV and its apparently been erased from the earth.  We were there for a couple hours, the length of a movie, so it counts.

I'm in the LCD Soundsystem video for Home.  Filmed in and around Houston.

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I was an extra in the high school auditorium scene in Heartbreak Hotel-- an Elvis movie starring David Keith.  As I recall that particular scene was set at a high school talent show in Taylor, Ohio, and they shot these scenes in Taylor, Texas.  I'm in that crowd somewhere but have never seen myself.  I skipped school for a couple of days as they shot it.  But it was okay, I was in theater and so it counted as off-site educational instruction or something.

Ebert gave it one star and said this about it:

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Here it is, the goofiest movie of the year, a movie so bad in so many different and endearing ways that I’m damned if I don’t feel genuine affection for it. We all know it’s bad manners to talk during a movie, but every once in a while a film comes along that positively requires the audience to shout helpful suggestions and lewd one-liners at the screen. 'Heartbreak Hotel' is such a movie.

 

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I was an extra in Bandslam. There are some concert scenes where I’m theoretically in the crowd, but another scene where they are backstage and I’m behind Aly Michalka and Vanessa Hudgens packing my bass gear away. I got to do makeup and wardrobe and all that shit. I accidentally stared directly at the camera a few times 😶

 

I think that movie is pretty forgotten, but it was decent for what it was if I remember. High School Musical era teen dramedy about a battle of the bands.

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I haven't, but my college roommate and a couple of people I went to high school with were extras in the prom scene of the B-movie, My Boyfriend's Back, which was filmed in Austin.

 

My wife's cousin and his wife did a bunch of extras-work in the early 2000s.  He's a judge in some beauty-contest scene in the Friday Night Lights series and she was in two scenes in Bernie.

 

My wife tells me that she and some of her friends were extras in The Big Green, but we haven't spotted her (and I've never bothered to watch The Big Green, which could be part of the problem).

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1 hour ago, Ghost of NMAS said:

I sat several rows behind Karen Valentine in the Astrodome while she watched the Astros play in the World Series in crowd shots for a made for tv movie called Murder at the World Series

I remember that movie. The guy gets the death penalty, right? I remember the Astrodome scenes being very cheesy, but I still watched. 

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I worked as a grip on a bunch of indies that never saw the light of day.  I was usually able to make my way in front of the camera when they needed an extra.  Most of those projects were never released - they just ended up as reels for the director to try and line up their next job with.

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My wife was an extra on FNL Season 1. She’s clearly visible in a couple scenes at the rodeo fair in S1 E12. She claims Berg wanted to cast her in a small role as one of the Garrity sisters, but she couldn’t make it work with her school/work schedule. 

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along with my parents, was an extra in that george strait movie pure country. we were in the crowd for a performance and can clearly be seen in the movie. they did a bunch of takes for a couple of the movie songs and then george played 4 or 5 of his hits for all the extras who showed up. filmed at an arena in ft worth. 

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5 hours ago, dcbc said:

My wife tells me that she and some of her friends were extras in The Big Green, but we haven't spotted her (and I've never bothered to watch The Big Green, which could be part of the problem).

That was filmed at my middle school (Murchison) and Hamilton Porter called us all a bunch of rich private school kids (wut).  That's all I got.

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Minor CSB:

I was taking summer class at UT when the instructor said a local production was looking for extras. The movie was going to be done by "the Beavis and Butthead creator."

So I (aka my car at that time) was immortalized in the opening sequence of Office Space as Ron Livingston loses his shit seeing all of us extras drive by him.

Pretty cool way to make a few hundred bucks.

I also volunteered to be an extra as he drives into his home at the "Morningwood Apartments" 

Sadly, I got cut from that scene.

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17 hours ago, Elvis said:

I have.  I’ll tell you about it sometime.  But I’m tired right now. 
 

Tell your story about being in a movie here!

Does this movie involve a certain vacation type story?  

 

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32 minutes ago, Rusty Shackleford said:

I am briefly in two documentaries about the 2005 football team: “Live the Dream” and the 3 part ESPN one from a few years ago, “05”. 

You or your mugshot in the parts documenting the celebrations?

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1 hour ago, gofuckyourself said:

Minor CSB:

I was taking summer class at UT when the instructor said a local production was looking for extras. The movie was going to be done by "the Beavis and Butthead creator."

So I (aka my car at that time) was immortalized in the opening sequence of Office Space as Ron Livingston loses his shit seeing all of us extras drive by him.

I was in one of the buildings y’all drove past, watching  the filming.  So I kind of was in it.

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One of my closest friends has been grinding in Hollywood for about 25 years now. He's been in a lot of good and bad movies. Top of my head, he was a SEAL that was blown up in the helicopter in Lone Survivor.  And recently got his ass kicked by Jessica Alba in some crappy movie. I can't watch any of his movies and take it seriously because I know his mannerisms and speech patterns so when he's acting it completely feels fake. He might be a decent actor but I can't separate the friend from the character. 

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6 hours ago, Butch Had Not said:

 Top of my head, he was a SEAL that was blown up in the helicopter in Lone Survivor.  I can't watch any of his movies and take it seriously because I know his mannerisms and speech patterns so when he's acting it completely feels fake.

Where or how do these intersect?

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On 6/9/2025 at 9:06 PM, Vegas64 said:

I and about 10,000 others were in the movie The Rookie (2002) starring Dennis Quad. Just in the crowd of a baseball game.

Friend of mine was in this.  He played at St. Ed's and he was one of the players during the tryouts or whatever.

He was also in the Life of David Gale, also filmed in Austin.

 

Wife has a couple of high school classmates that are actors.  

One dude has been in a ton of stuff, minor parts, but big productions.  West World, True Detective, True Blood, Law and Order etc..

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