I have just started auditioning to be an extra in films and TV!  I have already done a couple jobs!
Cool, did you have any acting experience before then?
Not really.  Just some high school drama class experience.  I am just now starting to build a portfolio.
Extra (acting)
A background actor or extra is a performer in a film, television show, stage, musical, opera or ballet production, who appears in a nonspeaking or nonsinging (silent) capacity, usually in the background (for example, in an audience or busy street scene). War films and epic films often employ background actors in large numbers: some films have featured hundreds or even thousands of paid background actors as cast members (hence the term "cast of thousands"). Likewise, grand
Rookie Cop
- Steve White as Veteran Cop
Production.
Reflecting on the film years later, director Ernest Dickerson spoke of his regretful experiences making the film:
"There's a movie I did a couple years ago called "Bulletproof". I'd like to just erase that whole experience. You know, I'm proud of a lot of the films I've done, but there's some situations that happened that in retrospect maybe I could have handled them a little differently if I had been a little