Alright maybe not the star, but definitely a dude cast as an extra in a scene that will probably be cut from Ang Lee's currently filming movie about "an aspiring interior designer in Greenwich Village obliged to run the family business, a Catskills motel. In summer 1969, he found himself at the center of a generation-defining experience when he volunteered the motel to be the home base for Woodstock concert organizers after his neighbor, Max Yasgur, made his farm available for the event."
My dad and I went a few months ago to extras casting and I was told to grow my hair out (not real long, just unkempt is what the guy said). Two weeks ago my dad got a call - they wanted him to play a limo driver in a key scene, but he couldn't do it due to a trip to Florida for my cousin's wedding. The day before we leave I get a call from the extras casting guy Sean. Asks me if I want to be a "kid swimming in a lake" and then perhaps help out in some other scenes just being in the background. I, of course, said yes. After work that day I ran over to the production offices in New Lebanon, New York and got fitted for my costume - a nice short, tight, pastel colored bathing trunk straight out of 1969. That's for the lake scene, obviously. I was then fitted with a pair of 60's jeans. They said I can just wear a white undershirt with it.
And what else did they do? Cut my damn hair! I grew it out longer than it's been in 12 years (which isn't very long at all, kind of just the Shaggy look) and they hair stylist says "well you're supposed to be a college prep student, preps didn't have the long hair in the back, just up front." So she cut the back and the sides, but left the front long.
The scene they have me locked for is scene 77 - I'm looking to get my hands on the script to see what the scene involves, besides a bunch of college prep students swimming in a lake. Coolest part about it? The scene's being shot next Saturday, September 6th - my 28th birthday. I'm pretty damn excited about it, but self-conscious as hell about being in front of all those people in that short ass bathing suit. I'm kind of a pasty white beanpole.
My dad and I went a few months ago to extras casting and I was told to grow my hair out (not real long, just unkempt is what the guy said). Two weeks ago my dad got a call - they wanted him to play a limo driver in a key scene, but he couldn't do it due to a trip to Florida for my cousin's wedding. The day before we leave I get a call from the extras casting guy Sean. Asks me if I want to be a "kid swimming in a lake" and then perhaps help out in some other scenes just being in the background. I, of course, said yes. After work that day I ran over to the production offices in New Lebanon, New York and got fitted for my costume - a nice short, tight, pastel colored bathing trunk straight out of 1969. That's for the lake scene, obviously. I was then fitted with a pair of 60's jeans. They said I can just wear a white undershirt with it.
And what else did they do? Cut my damn hair! I grew it out longer than it's been in 12 years (which isn't very long at all, kind of just the Shaggy look) and they hair stylist says "well you're supposed to be a college prep student, preps didn't have the long hair in the back, just up front." So she cut the back and the sides, but left the front long.
The scene they have me locked for is scene 77 - I'm looking to get my hands on the script to see what the scene involves, besides a bunch of college prep students swimming in a lake. Coolest part about it? The scene's being shot next Saturday, September 6th - my 28th birthday. I'm pretty damn excited about it, but self-conscious as hell about being in front of all those people in that short ass bathing suit. I'm kind of a pasty white beanpole.
