"The Company Men," a topical flick about the impact of corporate downsizing on the masses, is holding an open casting call for extras on Saturday, April 4 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the John Hancock Hotel and Conference Center, 40 Trinity Place in the George Washington room on the third floor.Billy Dowd Casting is holding an open casting call for SAG and AFTRA members only who are interested in extra work, with several "featured extra" roles still open.
Starring Cambridge homeboy Ben Affleck, Harvard alum Tommy Lee Jones and Kevin Costner, the film is based on the script by director John Wells. The flick is currently in pre-production with filming slotted to kick off in mid-April.
As previously reported in Loaded Gun, crews are setting up shop in the make-shift Chelsea soundstage located at 121 Webster Ave. across from the Save A Lot/Home Depot. The locale has been used for a slew of made-in-Boston films and TV productions including "Edge of Darkness" with Mel Gibson, the pilot for TNT's "Bunker Hill" with Donnie Wahlberg as well as "Pink Panther 2"
Affleck plays a corporate bigwig whose six-figure salary is suddenly cut after he gets a pink slip. Costner, a blue-collar construction worker, offers Affleck a job installing drywall.
Jones, portraying a senior corporate exec, struggles with the unethical exploits of his partners.
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