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Still Extra-ing

We probably all know by now that being an extra in a movie is one of my life goals. I tell everyone about it (partially in hopes that their brother's wife's uncle has some sway on such things). And I've posted about it here a bunch of times over the years*. The official goal is "be an extra in a movie where you can see my face and the movie is big enough to play in my hometown cinema." And while I can't cross it off the list completely yet, today I got a tiny step closer.

The name of the film is Kimi directed by Steven Soderbergh (famous for such films as Erin Brockovich, Traffic, Ocean's Eleven, and Ocean's Thirteen*). It released on HBO Max. It was definitely the biggest production I had worked on (at the time*) and as with all my movie/TV set experiences, it was super interesting. Interesting, however, doesn't always translate into screen time.

I'm very pleased with the 2 glimpses you get of me in the movie (at 1:01:41 and 1:01:59) as a) you can clearly see it's me and b) I'm in frame with the lead character. Besides 1 day on set as a "pedestrian", I spent 2 days as "protestor" but I can't seem to find myself among the 300 other extras in that scene. Alas. In this line of work, you never know if you'll make it on screen and I'm happy I got a peek.

Now might be a good time to point out that I have no delusions of grandeur. I am happy that I got a cumulative 7 seconds of blurry background action. In no way do I feel like I was in this movie. No one will watch the movie and say "Hey, that's Wren!". Nor will anyone say "That pedestrian really blew me away. Hire him for my next movie!" File this under obscure little things that matter only to me for reasons that even I don't fully understand.

I filmed on 2 other movie sets last year, as well as a TV show (Girl in the Woods on Peacock) and two industrials* (Microsoft and Mercedes). The movies haven't been released yet and I don't think will be as "big" as this one. In the TV show, all you saw was me from behind. And I'll probably never see the industrials. But for a guy that is pursuing a goal, it's progress.

You can see screenshots, filming dates, and the projects that I don't post about on my TV/Movie Extra Resume. And if you happen to have an uncle-in-law that is in charge of casting, hook me up! You will be doing me an incredible solid and I would be eternally grateful.

Thursday February 10 2022

File under: extra

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on Tue 15th Mar, 2022 09:33 pm CDT Cyndi said:
I’ve seen this movie advertised and it didn’t make it on my must see list but now it will!
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on Sat 19th Mar, 2022 08:54 am CDT Horge said:
Not connected at all to this post, but thought I'd finally (shamefully!) admit that only now am I caught up with BdW. I really wish I'd followed it more when you were on your trip and headed in my direction. But I'm glad to have read your whole Camino journal, etc. We were more than glad to have hosted you, and hopefully it won't be so long before we see you again. But I can't promise that Orión will still cutely be referring to himself in the 3rd person (though he currently still is) to give you a chuckle, but we'll find other ways to laugh! Hugs and kisses!
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