BSCC- BEWARE - People with 60's Cars to work as extras in featurefilm.

[Ron Manwaring]

Thanks for the info, I'll think I'll pass on the chance of being famous!!

Ron M


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Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2012 6:14 PM
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Subject: BSCC- BEWARE - People with 60's Cars to work as extras in featurefilm.





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Greetings,
If you get a message from Boston Casting;  We want to use you and your car as extras in an upcoming film, "Labor Day."   $120.00 per day!  Sounds cool huh!   John Teixeira thought so too.  I received an e-mail from Boston Casting looking for cars from the 60'-80's and contacted John to see what he thought. I knew he had done it a month or so ago.  What an ear-full I got.   He's still cleaning his car.  He'd to pass this along as his first hand account as to how the cars and the extras were treated on a scene shoot in Sutton, MA yesterday.  You may be approached but may want to re-think after reading John's story below.   Ray B'


Yes Ray, they called me. I along with 6 other people one of which was Lionel's sister worked the movie yesterday. They wanted the cars to look dirty so they dampened the cars and sprayed them with a powder they said would wash right off. After 2 hours of cleaning I got it all off the exterior of the car. I haven't started on the interior yet. But that wasn't the worst part of the day. The shooting was easy we parked the cars in various spots in yards and in front of a bus terminal. We were even in some scenes as background people.

At 2:00 we broke for lunch and returned to holding, which was the middle school in Sutton, MA. We ( seven car people) all got our trays and plate and headed to the buffet table with the rest of the cast and crew and we were stopped and told we had to wait until everyone else (the union folks) had eaten. They had us stand against the wall with trays in hand for 25 minutes even during times when no one was in line. It was humiliating. Once all were fed we were allowed to eat. There was plenty of food and quite a good spread of food. 

When Boston Casting called today I told them about the incident. The young man apologized for the poor treatment and said he would report it to his superiors.

Given they are sending out e-mails again, I assume no one from yesterday was willing to come back. By the way, the pay is $64 for 8 hours work and $20 for the use of the car, and they deduct a 1/2 hour for lunch.

I wish we could get the word out to other clubs and tell them how the treat us and our cars. You have a large base of influence with other clubs, perhaps you can get word to them.



☺ John 
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