Extras Extravaganza

Extras

Pelakon Tambahan

临时演员

Hmm

What's the feeling?

Complex feeling

Easy job

No need to memorize scripts

Spend a few hours

Filling up the edges of the picture

If you are lucky

Your face is there for a second

If you are not-so-lucky

You appear as a dark, unfocused figure

Spend a few hours there

And the pay is better than what a sales promoter get in a day

As a bonus

You get to see people whom you usually see on tv

You might even get to take a picture with them

Nice huh?

To be honest

Yes

But at times

Being at the background

Looking at actors while they act

You can't help but feel

"Hey, I want to try acting that part"

"Hey, if I were in his position, I would act this way, not that way"

"Hey, if I get to act his character, I would present that character in another way"

No disrespect to anyone

Sometimes you might even think

"Hey, I might be able to do a better job portraying that character"

But of course

At times you might also go like

"Wow! I could learn his way of portraying a character"

But those thoughts

Remain thoughts

Only to yourself

Sometimes it really does come down to one word

Opportunity

There are a crop of good actors in the country

But the difference is opportunity

There's only a fine line in between

Opportunity comes in two ways

If you're lucky

Or if you fight hard enough for it

But the industry is on the up in this country

Our tv is no longer saturated with Hong Kong and Taiwan dramas

Hopefully this would spell a chance for the current crop of extras in the country

Speaking from the viewpoint of an extra

For the crop of extras in the industry