Letters

The Unforgiving Life of a Movie Extra

As an extra who works for the pay, I can most definitely attest that people do not show up for what passes as meals (“Location, Location, Location,” by Brenda Arechiga, June 27). Working 14 hours on a movie is not a day in the park. At the end of the day, you are tired from boredom and standing in lines, sore from sitting, and hungry.

Movie extras are made to wait while complete idiots do take after take after take after take. We are rudely told what to do by nasty, power-hungry production assistants. We are basically seen and treated as stupid, willful cattle. Of course, there are much worse ways to make money than spending a day watching a movie get made.

Marlys McGregor

West Hollywood