the guy who wore the Alderaan costume in Star Wars IV, talk about dedication to your role
Not technically an extra, but there’s a guy in Jaws in the scene where the fishermen have a shark they caught hung up on the dock. Richard Dreyfus says something like the latin name for the species and the guy says “a whaaat??” in a very high, soft, gladly pay you next tuesday for a hamburger today kind of voice, and then 30 seconds later they cut back to him and he’s like an 80s cabbie stereotype: “Don’t give me this bite radius crap, Stick your friggin head in there.”
Gets me every time
True story: I answered an advert for a crowd scene being filmed at the Lincoln Memorial, for Milos Forman’s film of the musical ‘Hair’. They filmed a bunch of folk (couple of thousand of us showed up), and if the final film had let the crowd scene run under the end- credits for juuuust a few seconds more, I would have made my Hollyweird debut.
C’est la vie.
At least I got to see the filming of another scene (cut from the release), and was entertained by comedian Robert Klein before the filming; after the filming, there was a performance by this young, red-haired singer I’d not heard of before, named Bonnie Raitt.
