Film extras walk off film set

[ukjohn]

The ( uk ) Mail on Sunday reports that many film extras on the film set of " The railway Man " walked off the set.



The mutinous extras complained that many of them started work at 8.15am, having been given a small, cold dish of boiled rice with a tiny serving of chicken curry at breakfast.
They were not fed again until 5pm, when they were offered the same meal. On some days, they started at 6.30am.
They got 1,800 Thai baht for a 13-hour day (£36.42 per day or £2.80 an hour), which the film-makers say is the going rate in Thailand

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[Curt]

The minimum wage is headed towards 300 baht per 8 hour day, pack your own lunch. During that 8 hours, work is expected.

"Extras" is easy "work". It mostly involves hanging out.

[PakDude]

And I thought teaching wages were low! Thanks for the heads-up on that movie, should be worth waiting for. I've visited Hellfire Pass and got a real sense from the museum exhibits of what the POWs had to go through, I guess the extras got a little of that too, maybe the directors thought under-feeding them would somehow add to the realism.

[Tod-Daniels]

Many friends of mine act as extras in film work and they tell me they get about 1000-1500 baht a day, w/transportation and usually a pretty good feed from "craft-services" too. .. I know some guys who work a coupla times a week on this or that thing being filmed here all over the country. ..

I couldn't speculate why these particular foreigners didn't know goin' into it what they were gonna be doin'. Most of the time spent on ANY film is waiting around (although usually there're at least covered places to hang out between takes). Then again, perhaps the sweat and grime from forcing them to stand in the sun was easier and/or cheaper than dirtying up their uniforms with 'fake sweat and grime". ..

Still, it's far from back breaking work or even anything which resembles real work. Only a foreigner would whine about sitting around all day getting money, oh the humanity. ...