Craigslist

A role was never cast. The role of the three card monty sucker. Being on set all day, I thought I'd have to wait until getting home at 10pm to post a casting notice for role to be filled less then 15 hours later. I attempted to use my iPhone to post to craigslist (which if you haven't tried...don't. It doesn't fucking work. It asks for the code to prove you're not a bot or whatever and it just keeps telling me everything's wrong.)

Moments later Carl told me that wireless exists in the CalArts library. We walk to the Library and I sign in using my laptop (Incidentally the library is closed and i have to sign in to the Wi-Fi from outside the doors) I post to Craigslist:

actor needed for non-speaking role

Male actor needed for featured extra role tomorrow (3/24) from 11am to 2pm at CalArts. Lunch and Credit will be provided!

Please respond with headshot! Thanks!


it's NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests
Compensation: no pay

Within 30 minutes, I had my first response.

And then I received 5 or 6 more. Craiglist is an interesting place. Many of the responses included things like: Where is this being filmed? What time is this being shot? E-mails with resumes and no headshots. A female responded for this male part and best of all an acoustic hard rock band volunteered to give us music for the film by responding to the above ad. I'm pretty sure no one reads the details of these posts, they just see "actor needed for non-speaking role" and reply. I could've said "actor needed for speaking role" and then in the details written "must be willing to be raped and murdered in real time" or "must be willing to shave genitals and eyebrows for 1 frame flash in experimental video project" Either way these people would respond with "When? Where?"

I can't tell if this is an LA thing or a Craigslist thing.