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Wanna be in the MATRIX sequels'
Harry here and of course you want to be in the MATRIX sequels... what good film geek wouldn't? You want to portray one of the sleeping masses of duracell batteries! You need to be a battery! You can be a battery! Best of luck coppertop!
Hi all,
We will be casting Matrix 2 & 3 that will begin
shooting in late March. This is a Warner Bros.
Feature film starring Keanu Reeves and Laurence
Fishburne and directed by the Wachowski Brothers. The
Directors, Producers and Assistant Directors are
excited about our database and will be looking at
photos and resumes on-line. They will have the
photos/headshots and resumes at their fingertips 24
hours a day. Therefore, we are asking all of you to
make sure your resumes and photos are updated on-line.
This is very crucial.
Also if you would like to have your headshot scanned
in as your premiere photograph (optional), please mail
it to us at 84 First St. San Francisco, CA 94105 with
a check or money order for 15.00 (scanning fee). To
update your resume and info please sign-on to
SFCasting.Com. Click on log-in. For
more info about headshots and digitals please click on
"Actors please read"
which is on the first page of the log-in screen.
Enter your social security
# for both userid and password.
Due to the popularity of this film we will be
extremely busy so please do
not call our office or stop by unless you are dropping off a headshot to be
scanned. Please note: We do not accept headshots or
resumes via e-mail (no
exceptions). Keep checking our hotline or website for
updates on this movie.
We will be setting up voice mail and on-line
availability shortly.
Also if you know of anyone who might be interested in
being an extra on the
Matrix have them
call (415) 346-cast. We will be extending our
registration hours for new
registrants beginning Monday February 29th. The new
registration days and
times will be from Monday-Friday
12 -6 p.m. for the duration of this film. Thank you.
Please do not respond to this e-mail.
Beau Bonneau Casting
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Guargle.... Foam... Drool...
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There is not a february 29th until 2004, so either this is a typo, or there is someone telling little white lies somewhere????
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i'll take a look at your head shots for $14.50. boob shots i'll peruse for free.
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Harry my old mucker, someones yanking your chain.
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Being an extra in the Matrix sequels-yeah right.I thought it would be a casting call for something exciting like Double Team 2.
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the matrix films are being filmed in sydney AUSTRALIA
and this letter does not mention australia anywhere and appears to be aimed only at americans
i highly doubt that anyone is going to pay for some loser actor wannabe to fly from america to australia to appear in a film for 2 seconds
this is either an early april fools or someone is being a not nice criminla type person just trying to make a quick buck off all the losers who just mailed $15 to them
why didn't i think of it earlier
bugger
BComing Somethingorother -
Dear Warners,
While I appreciate the gractious offer to appear in the upcoming Matrix 2, I must decline. I believe it would not be in the best of interests of my career as an actor at this juncture. What's more, it would probably interfere with the project I have planned with both Jet Li and Michelle Yeoh. I certainly would never miss the chance to be involved in the production which included those two fine performers.
Many thanks,
Germancity
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Sounds like bollocks to me. Even if it wasn't, I'm afraid being cast as a coppertop extra would interfere with my busy schedule protecting the Earth from intergalactic annexation. Ah well, maybe next time ..
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Just wanted to join the chorus of disbelief that this made it through. Even if there was a February 29th this year, it would be a Thursday not a Monday!
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...maybe it's a glitch in the matrix...hehe
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I dunno, but what kind of advantage can it be if I pay my own flight to Australia to only appear as a one-second-geek-shitty-battery? Forget it morons!!
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Nice, Harry, for you to help these folks out in their obvious scam. So to be in the movie, do we just have to go to a meeting and hear their presentation? Really, we don't need to buy anything - serious. Just sign your name on his form (don't worry all that legal mumbo-jumbo up top), and here's your free toaster.
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Slow down guys. Did any of you go to the linked website? It's a real organization. And they do seem to be casting for the matrixII. But they aren't looking for coppertops, it says they're looking for Agent Smith photo doubles. What the bloody hockeysticks?!
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Just because it's a real link
doesn't mean it's not a hoax.
Anyone can put a real URL into
a fake e-mail to lend it
veracity. That said, as a hoax,
this is pretty lame. It's more
likely just a typo. -
Anytime a company is looking for something from you - and just requires a small fee for "processing" or some crap like that - it's a scam.
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If you check the information on the site, the address and phone number match. The date was a typo, no doubt, as this past Monday was the 19th. Now relax and concentrate on more important hoaxes like that one where Hollywood tries to convince you that David Arquette is funny.
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Feb 22, 2001 8:25:56 AM CST
There is no Feb. 29th and Harry stole the coppertop comment from
by iamlegolas
I am sure BATTLEPOSTER will be at your door any second now...
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nothing like a good dose of stupidity to start the mrning off right.
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Report this punk to hotmail or his internet provider, Harry.
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Feb 22, 2001 9:33:08 AM CST
I don't want my photo going up in San Francisco. Its just not wo
by filmjester
Why San Fransico? Nobody likes it there. It isn't worth being an extra if you have to go to San Fran. Anybody here stupid enough to send the photo to San Francisco? Psycho's
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....now they just seem like authoritarian teacher types!...me thinks they are but a spotty geekboy.....not the super vixens of my construct......my dream is undone.....bugger!
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I wish someone would pay me 15$ for scanning something.
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Like the rest of you, I was suspicious of this story and posting. It smelled like an online scam if I've ever heard one. But hold your socks and drop your you-know-what's...IT'S TRUE.
Got so interested in this, I did a little checking. I actually called Beau Bonneau Casting's office in San Francisco, spoke with one of their management team ( and not the receptionist) to confirm the story. The company is completely legitimate and has been in operation for several years. The woman at Beau Bonneau clarified that the $15 processing fee was recently instituted and is completely optional for anyone to pay. The reason for having it? Lots of people do not have professional head shots or casting photographs to the film industry standard with spec data and measured image. They take what people send and scan it to proportions/specs that casting directors (like Mali Finn & Shauna Wolifson, who worked on the first film) require.
I also called the SAG offices in Los Angeles for due diligence, and they not only have Beau Bonneau as a registered casting services provider, but confirmed that their upcoming casting schedule for 2001/2002 roster DOES confirm that the Matrix 2 sequel is scheduled to conduct some principal photography in the greater San Francisco area beginnning later this summer. So it's true from two independent sources.
If you doubt it, just look up their website, which would of course assume that you actually followed the link from this site, call them or call the SAG offices or 20th Century Fox and do some checking online..in short, do your own homework.
I don't blame anyone for doubting this though...But it is true.
By the way, I called Harry personally about the article and told him the same. He said he'd report it.
Later... -
...the person at SAG said it is routine in the industry for actors/actresses to use their social security number as an identifying work number, kind of like their own Tax I.D. number..
She also said it wasn't required, and in retrospect, its probably safer to use a number only you know. -
...by the way, rAvidfan sounds like on crazy mother f**cker. Some of the stuff in that rant of his below this posting is completely indicative of the type of personality, mindset and behavior that causes some people to characterize Republicans the way they do. That has to be one of the most vitriolic and venemous tirades I've ever read...
By the rAvidfan, I live in Seattle (obviously), don't know if you do, but if you have a wit of brains, you know as well as I do that the guy caught at the Canadian border right before New Years was a completely random search, absolutely no intelligence was used from the government and no one knew previously that this guy was coming through to Seattle. And let's get your facts straight...The guy isn't tied to Saddam, you dumb ass, he's tied to Osama Bin Laden, the Afghanistan terrorist. Iraq, while screwed on its on record, hasn't jack or shit to do with the guy. For people who make a living out of resurrecting history when it's convenient for you to do so, you extremist Republicans have an amazing lack of understanding of it and current events. By your account, Bill Clinton, during 2 terms, did absolutely nothing positive for this country...bullshit, and you know it.
The economic downtown was due to the capital markets resistance to new investments, over valuation of companies and consumer confidence decreasing. That has nothing to do with Bush or Clinton, ass-muncher.
God, read a paper instead of the Bible sometime....Both are good, but try a little diversity from the sanscript, Cocheesh. -
To everyone who thinks this is a scam. I'm an actor in San Francisco and Beau Bonneau Casting is one of the biggest agencies in town. Some of the prjects they have cast include THE ROCK, PATCH ADAMS, PRINCESS DIARIES, FLUBBER and CITY OF ANGELES just to name a few. I should know because I used to intern for them and they have been using me in NASH BRIDGES pretty much every week for the past four seasons. And yes the majority of the film will be shot in Australia, but the first MATRIX also shot here in the Bay Area (mostly blue screen work). They are extremely professional and great to work with. By all means check out the website (www.sfcasting.com). Do I sound like a commercial for them? Hell yes! They helped me get my SAG card.
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Feb 23, 2001 7:34:24 AM CST
To Clear The Air Folks.. Its Real... If you are afraid of using
by theevilharv
First I would like to thank Harry for posting this info.. Harry keep updates on this, because it is great that this can be collected over the web, anonymously, and integrated into the film sequels. To see this quasi collision of The Matrix and The Web World of Fans is quite unreal. Gotta Love it Harry. Second, and well, last, f@#k off complainers and ass lickers. The only phony bologny story here was the cgi pick of spiderman, the rest has been accurate or at least generally accurate. Time to take the blue pill..
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rABIDfan......boy are you conditioned! You are a stormtrooper.....one Veda's sheep....You are a sign of the sickness that it a hurdle to humanities greater possibilities....UNITY IS THE ACCEPTANCE OF DIVERSITY....not the acceptance of drudgery! Go Meditate!
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Hi,
I am a 13 year old actor looking for more jobs, those of you who watch Baywatch Hawwaii might see me on tv I am also a model I have Modeled for Target and have done shell vacation commercials, I work for the Kathy Muller agencey I am Dirty blonde,Brown eye's, and 5'0" tall. for more info E-mail me at TrevorThanem@cs.com
thank you
Sincerely
Trevor M. Thanem -
Hey if guys like Bruce Willis can take bit parts in PULP FICTION then I can do extra parts in the new MATRIX films! Hooray! That'll find my audience! I will be a battery, I WILL BE BATTERY! Oohh that give sme an idea for a script, these 2 batteries, one has a varsity jacket, likes a girl, but she has a boyfriend! Oh NO! Then hilarity ensues! The MATRIX 2 will be my Casablanca. When I get my oscar nod for BEST SUPPORTING EXTRA, I will save a part in my speech for you Mister Knowles, right after I thank Matt Lillard!
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It's amusing how many people thought this was a scam, but now know that many scenes(the highway chase in particular) were indeed filmed in Alameda in the Sf bay area. I bet you are all sick with guilt now. Yeah, Longtime SF resident here, and Beau Bonneau is the biggest and best agency here.
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