Archive for category: Acting and Extras Work in Sydney

“Never work with children or animals.” is the famous quote by W.C. Fields, but this very cute picture of Penguin (The star of the movie Penguin Bloom) would have you thinking otherwise.

Of course it’s certainly not straight forward having a bird as the main star of your movie, so it was really interesting to see the casting board for the movie includes seven different magpies to play the role of Penguin. I’m sure it was a challenge finding birds that had very similar plumage. For once it makes our job of matching human talent to roles seem very simple.

Already more than 30 MCTV people have been involved with Fallout which started filming in late August. It’s a six part drama series that covers the devastating nuclear tests held at Maralinga in outback South Australia. It’s fascinating to imagine the political environment that let another country detonate nuclear bombs on Australian soil. The series has already secured worldwide distribution rights from the French APC Studios.

Charlotte Best is playing Aria Wolf, who is trapped and kidnapped in the elevator of a super high-rise building at the mercy of tormentors in the Russian Intelligence Agency. Shooting started last week on this action thriller which is set in Shangai but shot here in Sydney under writer/ director Antaine Furlong. For more information see IF Magazine.

Written and directed by Josh Lawson (House of Lies, The Little Death), this romantic comedy follows Teddy (Spall), who wakes up the morning after his wedding to discover that every few minutes he’s jumping forward to the next year of his life. Lawson was writer/director and starred in The Eleven O’Clock too which was nominated for best short film at the Academy Awards in 2018. The full short movie of The Eleven O’Clock is included below for your pleasure. For more infor about Long Short Story, there’s a nice writeup in Variety.

The streets of Sydney were transformed into a postcard from San Francisco for the filming of another scene of The Invisible Man. There was a huge group of lucky MCTV background extras lucky enough to be included in Saturday’s shoot. Brenden Wood from channel 7 captured some of what was going on and shared it on his twitter feed. There’s even a short video showing everyone lining up and waiting for them to call “Action”.

Hundreds of extras employed for yesterday’s shoot. #TheInvisibleMan pic.twitter.com/d9sfLALmY6

— Brenden Wood (@BrendenWood) August 17, 2019