What would you do to earn an acting or writing spot in your favorite show? Do dozens of TikTok videos a day? Crash a film set? Get a tattoo of a shirtless Henry Cavill on your face? Don’t answer that. Just send us the photos for … proof. Luckily, none of the folks on this list had to go as far as tainting their neck bulbs to appear on screen or in the credits of their favorite shows. Their methods range from the accidental to, well, actually, crashing a set. Sometimes, Lady Luck is just having herself a good day …
The Glen Coco Guy From Mean Girls Snuck On Set For A Free Meal
Everyone’s favorite hardly-seen character in the movie about teenagers being wild animals almost never happened. Aspiring actor David Reale initially auditioned for a part in the film but didn’t get it. That didn’t keep him away, though.
As Reale told Daze back in 2014: “What happened was, they ended up filming a lot of the school stuff right across the park from my apartment in Toronto. One day I sort of wandered onto set to see if I could watch some scenes being shot and maybe get some free food (I was 19-year-old actor with no money, so eating was daily mission) … At one point, the director recognized me from my audition and, as a consolation prize, said something like ‘Hey, I’m going to put you right in the front on this next scene, and you’ll have a name and everything’ … I just sat in a chair and tried not to stare at Lindsay Lohan.”
Truly, you go, Glen Coco.
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Game of Thrones Fans Got To Voice The Screams Of The Undead Dragon
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Remember that very sad part where the dragon Viserion died, only to be resurrected by the Night King in that show where the most annoying people come into power? It turns out that the show’s sound designer, Paula Fairfield, recruited some die-hard fans to help create “the tortured screams of the dead army” that was Viserion’s new dragon cry.
A filmmaker had been recording fans’ reactions of the show every Sunday evening at the Burlington Bar in Chicago, and Fairfield — who had met some of these regulars at the Con of Thrones fan convention — asked a bunch of them (without telling them what it was for) to record some clips by getting drunk and then screaming “as if you’re being tortured. It’ll be therapeutic!”
Fairfield joined the group during the airing of the episode where Ice Zombie Viserion first takes flight (she’s the one with the ball cap and glasses in the video below). It was only after seeing the episode that she revealed to them that they were, in fact, the dragon.