Got to meet the best actor ever!

       Back at home, in Puerto Rico I got to be an extra for the movie "The Rum Diary" I got selected from the agency I worked for and got to go and film in the movie. It was an amazing experience, because I never though on my life that I was going to see how a movie is filmed and made with my own eyes. The movie was staring Johnny Deep, Amber Heard, Aaron Eckhart and other famous people. I did got cast for an scene where it was representing a carnival, and from there they keep selecting people and i did got two more times for a nightclub and a bar scene. It was amazing, but tiring as well. I decided to skip classes all that time, since it was on April 2010, I was going to college for psychology at this time. I needed to be there a 3 in the morning and from a huge park they drove you to a location where wardrobe was, you get your hair styled, then your clothes, they drive you to the film location and they feed me for breakfast, lunch and diner since we were filming for 18 hours the first day. I went back to cousin house since she live in San Juan and I live in Ponce is almost a two hour drive so I decided to stay in San Juan while I was filming, because got selected for a second time and the second day we filmed for 20 hours and the third day was for like 15 hours. The second day I saw how they converted an abandoned building that look like trash in the outside and mud all over the place, but when you got inside that building, there was an amazing disco from the 60-70's with a/c inside, smoke, music and it looked like you were going back in time and been part of something amazing. Cameras everywhere, the director, producer, choreographer, make up artist spraying water all over your face, learning how to dance like in that time, everything was just amazing and is something that I would never forget my entire life. I got to eat in the same table as Amber Heard and she told us her history on how she got into the movie, the same with Johnny deep I got to see him, shake hands with him and say hi. His one of my favorite actors ever so just be able to say hi is like I was looking to the most famous person ever i had seen in my entire life. I need to say whenever you hear in your life that there's a movie casting extras, it doesn't matter if they get you in camera or not, jump on it and take the risk to be in the movie as an extra is an amazing experience and you get paid amazingly too. So go ahead and take the risk you will have a blast!

Thanks for reading,


Sangerald Ortiz