Title: Leatherheads, feature film
Cast: George Clooney, Renee Zellweger
Extra: Carrie Bouygues
Producers: Grant Heslov, George Clooney, Casey Silver
Director: George Clooney
Script: George Clooney, Stephen Schiff, Duncan Brantley, Rick Reilly
Roles: Football fan in Charlotte, North Carolina; Speakeasy Patron in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
Hometown: Greenville, South Carolina.
Describe when you decided to appear at the casting call and your reaction to being selected. Did you dress up for a particular part?
Actually, I heard (after the fact) on the news that the casting call had already been held for Greenville. At the end of the news segment, the journalist gave an address to send pictures of vintage automobiles from the 1920s for consideration to be used in the movie. I immediately went to my computer and designed a comp card for myself (not for an automobile), put it in a large envelope with gumballs all over it (to be colorful and to get noticed) and it worked! Just when I had forgotten about mailing my comp card, thinking that I would not be contacted, the phone rang and I was in!
Who was your first call to and what was the conversation when you learned you were going to be in a George Clooney produced movie with the No. 1 male box office star?
I definitely called my Mom first. She is a huge fan of Clooney (declaring him to be the “Cary Grant” of modern day Hollywood). Both she and I were screaming like schoolgirls… VERY EXCITING!
What was your first experience like on the movie set? Was it what you expected?
My grandmother (mom’s mom) made a living out of being an extra in Los Angeles. When I was a little girl, I used to love to listen to her stories about being on film sets. I knew to expect a lot of down time and patience is definitely required. As a whole, the movie making process is an extremely interesting one. It was what I had expected with a hefty dose of so much more.
What was the role(s) you were cast and describe what you did? Include how wardrobe dressed you.
As a football fan, I was dressed rather plain. But the shoes were incredible. I wish that I had been able to keep them. As for the Speakeasy scene, I looked like a completely eccentric, wealthy artist or silent film star. It was very different from the other costumes in the scene.
Did you do anything to maneuver yourself closer to the camera or into a scene?
Not at all… part of the fun for me personally during the whole process was being spontaneous and seeing how the chips would fall every day on the set. By not forcing anything to happen, I feel that I met so many interesting and different people every day and just had fun with it.
How close did you get to George Clooney? Renee Zellwegger or other actors?
Particularly for the Speakeasy scene, because the set was so small, George and Renee were in such close proximity to all of the extras. At one point, Renee walked right up to an extra named Barry and me and told us how beautiful/handsome we looked. That was the one moment that I was actually a little star-struck. When she walked away, I looked at Barry and said, “Shouldn’t we have said that to HER?”
What surprised you the most about how a movie was produced?
How it is shot completely out-of-sequence. I wondered how they keep it all straight!
Outside from your participation: What is the best memory you take away from your experience.
Getting to do something completely out-of-the-box, random and unexpected… What a thrill!
What would you like to tell your friends?
Simply put, I enjoyed meeting everyone!
George Clooney is noted for making movies with people he has worked with before. Would you work with Clooney again if his company called you?
In a New York minute… Clooney left a very positive impression on me in that his personality is so down-to-earth and he is very funny. I would definitely work with him and his crew again!
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