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The deal I had with these extras was basically that I’d give them a real credit. It’s not going to be like “bar attendant number seven.” I would give them an actual name. Some of them ended up getting lines in the film. There’s a couple of one-liners. And as I said, some of them actually really participated there, oohing and aahing and this sort of stuff. I mean, these are real actors—they’re going to acting class and a lot of them have resumes with multiple gigs and stuff. So it was a fantastic get for the production, just having real actors to be able to perform like this.
