My workday as a Actress / Background Extra

Every since I was a little girl I wanted to be apart of the magic of motion picture as well and theater. It has ALWAYS been a dream of mine.

The first movie that I ever watched that made me say, I want to do this was coming to America. Till this day, that is still my favorite movie of all time.

That movie inspired me sooo much.

So, around the year 2016 I said I’m going to get on the show empire.

I started to do some research and before I know it, in 2017 I got my first official movie booking as a extra.

I was sooooooo excited, being on set is still exciting to me in 2024. It gives me so much life and so much joy.

What a day in the life of a background extra is like?

Often times you have to be on set really early, like 4am for example.

They will email you a call sheet will all the information you need.

You arrive to set, get signed in and usually grab a snack or breakfast and wait until they call you.

It’s a lot of waiting.

Once they call you, they take you to set and most times tell you what scene you’re in and what you need to do to make the scene make sense.

This usually takes place for hours, it can go from 4 hours to 8 hours to 12 hours, you never know.

The days are early and long, so you really have to have a strong work ethic and love the work to keep going and to keep getting booked.

Please let me know if you have any questions 😊 I could talk about this All day 🥹

Slide 1 Me on Chicago Fire

Slide 2 Me on Chicago Med

Slide 3 My very first time being booked on a movie called Widows

Slide 4 Me on set of Empire

5 BTS of Chicago med

6 BTS of Widows

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