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I was an extra on this movie! Weeeee

posted 18 years ago by brews
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Part of this was filmed at Richland College in Dallas, Texas. They took volunteers from the extras who where willing to cut their hair to be "homelanders." The day I was on the set they were filming the kidnaping by the de-programmers. Karen Allen gave such an emotional performance in that scene one time but something went wrong with the camera and they had to film it again. When they announced that they didn't get the scene, everybody let out an "awwww" because she had done sooooo good.
Anyway that was my 2 seconds of stardom.

[–] dallasrnb 18 years ago

LOL My mom and aunt were singing around the campfire with ya toward the end I believe! Small world!

[–] lmtender-2 18 years ago

Hey
I was an extra also. I just found this site. My 1970 Olds was in it also. When they drove up with the Laundry looking car/truck they had to pass my vehicle. My vehice was put there purposely, but never got paid for it. Now I want see this movie..Do you remeber the director?, looked like Clint Eastwood. Everyone called him Clint
Roy Davis [email protected]

[–] jjmullinsjr 18 years ago

Oh my GOD! Not only was I an extra as well, but I was picked out of the crowd by Jamie Freytag (Assistant Director) to be the person to whom Karen Allen ran to ask for help. I think we shot that scene about 20 times. She was amazing.

Even more amazing to me was the fact that I had seen the original Raiders of the Lost Ark the night before filming that scene. Prior to that night, I had never seen Karen Allen before. In a 24 hour period, I went from seeing her face for the first time on a 20' screen, to having her run to me for help 20 times in an incredibly convincing manner.

The whole situation was surreal.

If memory serves me though, it was actually shot at El Centro College. Has the name been changed?

[–] ptuba9-1 18 years ago

The filming locations list Mesquite as the scene of the compound, which is where Richland is. El Centro is in downtown Dallas. I lived within 10 minutes of Richland, and I had no idea a movie was filmed there!

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