By Aislinn Ní Uallacháin
Head of Casting @ www.extrasireland.com
Another year almost over at Extras Ireland and it’s been an absolute whopper! Thanks so much to all our Extras, Actors and Models – we’re delighted to work with each and every one of you. To all of our Clients, thank you for coming to us for help – every project is a new and exciting adventure for us!
Here’s a little look back at just ten of the projects we’ve collaborated on this year, each one a gem. We’re so very grateful for a prosperous 2019 and are looking forward to lots more exciting projects in 2020!
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I am Patrick: The Patron Saint of Ireland (Docudrama)
‘’I AM PATRICK peels back centuries of legend and myth to tell the true story of Saint Patrick. Through historical re-enactments, expert interviews and Patrick’s own writings, experience the journey from man to saint.’’
We were so delighted to be able to provide the extras and featured extras for this spectacular docudrama about the man himself. Our extras got the chance to travel way out west and by all accounts it was an amazing experience on Achill Island this summer.
Working on a period piece was both challenging and fun for us here in the office, thanks so much to all, definitely a 2019 highlight for us.
Check out the trailer here.
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Westlife ‘Better Man’ (Music Video)
Imagine our excitement when we were approached to source the extras for Westlife’s comeback music video – we really had to keep this one under wraps so that there wouldn’t be legions of screaming fans turning up to the shoot!
We booked lots of teens to play secondary school students, adults to play the teachers and Kyna, the gorgeous little girl who bounds in at the end to her Mum. Definitely one of our favourite projects this year.
Click here to watch the vid from the boys!
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Rugby World Cup (RTE Promo)
It was an absolute treat to source the Japanese extras for the RTE Rugby World Cup promo. We reached out to the Japanese community in Ireland and met some really wonderful people along the way. A really special one for us.
Aislinn was actually in Japan during the World Cup so it was a particularly exciting one for her to have worked on!
You can watch the promo here to catch a glimpse of our fab extras!
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Fota Island Resort (Live Events)
As well as extras, we of course have a huge pool of talented, professional actors on our books who are available for stage, screen and event work.
For both their Halloween and Christmas interactive events, we helped Fota to find actors who are game for lots of improvisation, full of creativity and who aren’t afraid to expect the unexpected!
Fota’s Christmas Experience is currently running in Cork until December 23rd, click here for more details.
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Smyths (Commercial)
We have a fab working relationship with Smyths and are always excited when they get in touch! Whether they’re looking for newborns for catalogue stills or older kids to present some unboxing vids, we’re always thrilled to collaborate with them. So many cuties! Check out little Danny in an ‘unboxing’ video here, a natural!
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To the Moon (Documentary)
During 2019 we’ve been busy sourcing voiceoverartists for ‘To the Moon’, a gorgeous documentary about the moon that’s in the works. We’ve helped to source speakers of various languages to take part in this project – Spanish, Albanian, Greek, Romanian… it’s going to be really fabulous and we’re so proud to be a part of it!
Read more about this beautiful documentary here.
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Crimecall (TV)
Our extras and featured extras have been out working on Crimecall for RTE as both suspects and victims this year.
Often a challenging job for us as they must look as similar as possible to the real people involved – some extremely specific requests come in but we’re always up to the task!
More info on Crimecall here.
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Avonmore Lactose Free Milk (Online Video)
We often get unique requests in – we just never know what’s going to come our way!
One of the more unusual projects we worked on this year was for Avonmore – sourcing people who are lactose intolerant. Nothing is impossible!
Check out their stories here.
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Ding.com (Video and Stills Campaign)
We’re very proud at Extras Ireland to have models of various nationalities and ethnicities on our books – check out some of our ladies on this Ding shoot earlier this year – just fabulous.
Great to have so many out on this shoot for St Patrick’s Day. Thanks Ding!
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Green Knight (Feature Film)
We had lots of our actors and extras on set during the summer for Green Knight, a fantasy re-telling of the medieval story of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
Lots of special requirements for various roles in this one – horse riding, screen combat, calligraphy, weaving, swimming…
Will be an interesting one when it hits cinemas next year, more info here on IMDB.
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