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- GRAPEVINE, Page 19Actors with Dirty Faces
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- By DAVID ELLIS/Reported by Sidney Urquhart
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- Curly Sue, a Warner Bros. movie currently filming in
- Chicago, tells the tale of an eight-year-old girl and her
- friendship with a homeless man. The film's casting company,
- thinking it would be a good deed to hire real street people as
- extras, asked a local shelter for help in attracting recruits.
- But most of the 137 people who answered the casting call were
- rejected because they were considered too clean. Some recruits,
- hungry for a job that pays up to $90 a day, reluctantly traded
- in their apparel for filthy costumes. "They had me wear clothes
- that had so much dirt on them, it took a couple of days to get
- it out from under my nails," complains James Moffatt, one of
- the homeless actors. The filmmakers say they will mainly hire
- actors for future walk-on parts. Explains a casting staff
- member: "When the director asks for street people and bag
- people, he wants a certain look."
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