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Stealing Jokes Extras Casting Call
STEALING JOKES will need about 200 Extras total, spread over the 4 week shoot in and around Detroit, starting April 11th, 2022.
The rate for General Extras this time is $120/8hrs ($15/hr).
About a dozen Featured Extras will also be needed. The rate for Featured Extras is $500/12hrs.
Please see below for General and Featured Extras role example descriptions.
All roles are currently 18 and over only.
All Extras roles are non-union, but the production is SAG, so SAG COVID protocols will be followed. (Testing (production provided) will be required prior to filming days.)
Must be local to the SE Michigan area, or willing to pay for your own travel costs for testing and shoot dates.
GENERAL EXTRAS role examples (most will only work 1 day):
- Comedy Club Patrons
- Comedy Club Staff
- Prison Inmates
- Prison Guards
- Coney Patrons
- Armed Thugs
- Teen Daughters (young looking 18+)
- Comedy MC
- Merch Staff
- Detective’s Wife
- Barber
- Barber Patron
- FEATURED EXTRAS role examples (most will work 2 to 4 days):
Twerking Hype Girls
- Bikini Clad Girl
- Stripper (female, not nude)
- Donny’s Groupie Girls
A Health Care commercial filming in Detroit, MI on Dec. 2nd or 3rd, 2021 is looking for 5 people!
They need 4 Principals (Rate: $900) and 1 Extra (Rate: $200).
The Principal Roles are:
- 1 Black Mother (Mid 50s)
- 1 Black Adult Daughter (30ish)
- 1 White Woman (Mid 50s)
- 1 White Man (Mid 50s-60s)
The Extra Role is:
- 1 Male Priest (Mid 30s-50s, any race)
COVID testing will be required prior to filming, regardless of vaccination status. Testing will either be provided by production, or they will reimburse for testing costs.
MOVIE THEATER MASSACRE with Linnea Quigley is looking for a featured extra, BAG MAN, for tomorrow, Wed. Oct. 27th, evening (6pm start. 6 hours max.) in Detroit, MI.
BAG MAN is a regular theater patron, who always has mysterious bags with him, and the staff like to speculate about what might be in them. He is a middle-aged “everyman”.
The rate for this featured extra role is $100.
Casting continues for MOVIE THEATER MASSACRE with Linnea Quigley!
MTM is an indie feature, by a local writer/director, filming in Detroit, MI Oct/Nov, 2021.
All principal roles are paid (Rate varies by role. Approx. $100-$200/6 hour shoot day).
Here are the multi-day roles I am still looking to cast:
(All roles are open to ages 18+, any ethnicity, and non-binary gendered actors. Michigan/local residents only, please.)
- WILY (10 shoot days)
- Male. Late 20’s-Early 30’s. Theater Employee. The party guy / jokester of the bunch, though he does have an intellectual bent to him.
- WINSTON (3 shoot days)
- Male. 40’s. An immigrant from the Caribbean. Offbeat but with a kind and deep soul. Came to America looking for new opportunities, fleeing some type of oppression. Has done many odd jobs throughout his life. Now works as a janitor. Married to Cecelia.
- CECELIA (3 shoot days)
- Female. 40’s. An immigrant from the Caribbean. Offbeat but with a kind and deep soul. Came to America looking for new opportunities, fleeing some type of oppression. Has done many odd jobs throughout her life. Now works as a janitor. Married to Winston.
- HAROLD (2 shoot days)
- Male. 40-50 years of age. Owns the theater, but doesn’t care about it. A smarmy flamboyant character.
- – A set of (2) friends who enjoy using cannabis in social settings, who together could cover technical questions (rolling paper, glassware, etc.) and bring a fun dynamic that will bring a balance of both entertaining and informational. They’ll need to answer questions like: “How can you smoke cannabis?” and “What are non-smoking ways to consume cannabis?”
- Medical/Legal Experts – Professionals, like those actively working with patients, lawyers that have worked with marijuana incarceration cases…
- 2 Go-go Dancers (wearing bikinis)
- Looking for women 18 or over, any ethnicity. MICHIGAN RESIDENTS ONLY.
- The rate for these roles is $10/hr with a 5 hour guarantee, and a $50 “bump”, so you will be making at least $100.
- – A closed BBQ restaurant pitmaster finds a second act bringing their signature BBQ to the world from home.
- – A small business thrives when forced to get creative in the face of an ever changing world.
- – The survivors of gun violence (or their family) find hope in justice.
- – A teen from an under-resourced neighborhood is delivered to a university.
- – A social worker works with a homeless person to get them a job.
- – A prisoner Tastes freedom with their champion.
- – A shuttered video game arcade is resurrected. (Could also be movie theater or other entertainment business like a theme park.)
- White/Latino male, slender, 5ft11in, dark hair
- Black male, slender, 6ft, short hair
- White/Latina female, slender, 5ft5in, long dark brown hair