'Game of Thrones': I was an extra in that King's Landing crowd scene.
” in 1984. I was dining with the director a few weeks before shooting began. He said I looked the part and asked whether I had ever done any acting.Last spring, I was living in Belfast, Northern Ireland, teaching courses for the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen's University. One day, a student told me she was making ends meet as a paid extra in the numerous film and television productions being shot in Northern Ireland.Long have I yearned to be an extra.
Getting in the door was harder than I thought. First, I had to meet eligibility requirements: attest to my health, fill out detailed wardrobe questionnaires and vow secrecy. Special photos taken at passport shops had to display the top half of my body and, for some reason, prove me beardless. That day, the production set a record for extras: 650 plus. That day, the question of how many white men in their late 60s could possibly be available for extra work was answered: a surprising large number, many of them striking specimens with firm jaws, broad shoulders and long, flowing silver manes.
A lucky break for us, even if our initial reaction was to glower faintly at each other. When everyone else was done, we got special treatment and were swaddled in earth-colored robes and sashes, blouses, vests, sackcloth and primitive sandals. Makeup was simple — dirt smudges and mussed hair. Black was finishing up his first children's book and dashing off illustrations for future projects all day long; he also taught therapeutic writing at a night school. He introduced me to another longtimer, more my vintage, a newspaperman taking time off from journalism to write a stage play. His wife, he said, had edited Seamus Heaney for Faber & Faber and now was one of Ireland's leading drama critics.
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