What job involves sitting on your tuchus most of the day apart from the occasional walk back-and-forth, includes free meals and pays you 90 quid to boot?
That’s right people, I’ve become an Extra.
And when you read the specs you think, “Hey, why don’t I do this everyday?”
10 hours of doing nothing seems waaaay longer than that:
5:30 am: Wake up. Put clothes on inside out. Correct.
5:40 am: One word: Coffee.
6:30 am: Arrive on set. Shudder at smell of fried breakfast. Coffee.
7:30 am: Find inner peace. Get bored. Remember to take up knitting.
8:30 am: Get driven to “location” conveniently next to a MacDonald’s, which shall be our holding bay.
8:45 am: Extras are given a stash of money to do with what they wish. Porridge anyone?
9:00 am: Begin talking to other extras, including a batty old polish lady sporting a leopard print hat.
9:15 am: Conversation wanes. Coffee.
10:30 am: Strike up conversation with Australian runner. Gives me his hand-warmer. Score.
11:00 am: Mmm...book?
12:00 pm: First requirement of the job: Walk across the street.
12:05 pm: Reset.
12:10 pm: Walk across the street.
12:15 – 1:00 pm: Lather, rinse, repeat.
1:00 pm: Return to set for lunch.
1:30 pm: Lunch technically finished. No requirements. Mmm...sleep?
2:00 pm: Now where was that book...
3:00 pm: Sigh. Find phone. Check for wireless signal. Hmph.
4:00 pm: Get driven to a different location. Stand by roadside waiting for cue.
4:45 pm: False alarm. Return to set.
5:00 pm: Tea time.
5:30 pm: A mention we may be done for the day. Sit eagerly waiting by window.
6:30 pm: Free at last! And with overtime to prove it. Now, if only the extras agency didn’t take £70 out of your first fee...
Ah yes, so not exactly 90 quid this time round, but at least this time it was tea-drinking, rather than tea-making, that was at the forefront of my agenda.
Sigh...I’m practically a lady of leisure...
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