Woodstock, Take Two: A Day in the Life of an Extra
Caroline Framke
Issue date: 10/2/08 Section: Arts
Lunch: There are two tents for the extras on set, one for Screen Actors' Guild members and the other for "Non-SAG" people. There isn't much difference between the two, except for the fact that SAG members get lobster and risotto for lunch while Non-SAG people get wraps and Oreos.
3:45 to 6:30 p.m., Scene 3: We storm the back of a food truck en masse, the P.A.s having told us that we're hungry, and encouraged to yell about it. Liev reappears with a baseball bat to stave us off, but we only stop when a scraggly guitar player hops up on the truck with a guitar and tells us, "Maybe if we organize, work together, we can work this out." I have a hard time biting back my laughter as I help pass crates of zucchini down the hippie assembly line.
By the time we're done, I'm tired, sore and I can feel the tickle in my throat that means the Smith plague is about to make me pay for the 12 hours spent in the cold. But at the end of the day, my attitude regarding my "Taking Woodstock" experience firmly remains, "Whatever, I'm in a movie!"
3:45 to 6:30 p.m., Scene 3: We storm the back of a food truck en masse, the P.A.s having told us that we're hungry, and encouraged to yell about it. Liev reappears with a baseball bat to stave us off, but we only stop when a scraggly guitar player hops up on the truck with a guitar and tells us, "Maybe if we organize, work together, we can work this out." I have a hard time biting back my laughter as I help pass crates of zucchini down the hippie assembly line.
By the time we're done, I'm tired, sore and I can feel the tickle in my throat that means the Smith plague is about to make me pay for the 12 hours spent in the cold. But at the end of the day, my attitude regarding my "Taking Woodstock" experience firmly remains, "Whatever, I'm in a movie!"
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Nicole
posted 3/26/09 @ 12:29 PM EST
Hey Caroline! I love your article. I think we were in the same scene! I was the crazy flute player who was silently playing next to your group. I remember the "don't look into the lens" lecture!! Hahaha. (Continued…)
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