• huppakee@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    In The Netherlands we had a long running detective and basically if you hadn’t played a victim you weren’t an established actor yet.

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    21 hours ago

    “Look man, this role is just a side gig for me. I’m just gonna lay here, and pretend to be dead. I get to have a few minutes of peace, doing absolutely nothing for 3 minutes, and make more money than the average American makes in 3 years. I don’t want a speaking part. That would be like…work. I just want to rest, and you guys get to advertise that Kate Moss was on your show.”

    This is the vibe I get from celebrities most of the time. She, as an actress, turned down a cameo role, because she, as an actress would have had to act. And that’s too much.

    Meanwhile I’ve worked in factories for $9 an hour, in 130F heat. Fucking hell.

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      Seems odd to complain about someone making easy money while arguing that your own job shouldn’t be so hard. It’s like how people complain about low wages and people living in poverty but the moment that person in poverty starts earning a higher wage, they’re suddenly cast out and deemed “part of the problem” since they’re not living in poverty anymore.

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      Acting dead is not as easy as it sounds, and it may be a day of availability. The difference is that your factory makes a set amount from your shift, while a studio can sell your TV work again and again over an extended period.

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      23 hours ago

      I think that there’s something of a binary distinction between speaking and non-speaking parts under SAG union rules. Like, it gets significantly more expensive more expensive once someone speaks.

      I’m not sure whether a zombie moaning crosses the line into a speaking part.

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      21 hours ago

      The only movie role I want is to be a zombie in a zombie movie. I want to just shuffle around and groan with make up making me look dead. That is if I ever had a movie role.

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    22 hours ago

    Wasn’t Daisy Ridley’s first on camera role playing a cadaver?

    EDIT: BBC’s Silent Witness.

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    21 hours ago

    Maybe she saw that one episode of Sunny and thought Dee’s part in it was so funny she wanted to try the same