Shutter Island Casting Call…
Grant Wilfley Casting is holding an OPEN CALL in Boston to cast BACKGROUND EXTRAS for the feature film ASHECLIFFE directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio. (Dunno why they renamed it from Shutter Island)
This film is set in the 1950s in a mental institution with flashbacks to a WWII concentration camp. Casting for people to play mental institution staff (doctors, nurses, orderlies, guards), mental patients (including interesting, quirky or unusual character faces), the malnourished and emaciated concentration camp prisoners (many of whom will have their heads shaved), and people to play WWII American and German soldiers (young athletic types, people with military or law enforcement experience and knowledge of firearms, police officers, fire fighters, ROTC, etc). Seeking men who are willing to have their hair cut short and women with natural-looking hair color, no highlights. Specifically seeking Caucasian and African-American people.
Filming begins in Boston area March 2008.
Open Call will be held from 10am - 4pm, on Saturday Jan. 26 at Boston University (George Sherman Union - Metcalf Hall) 775 Commonwealth Ave. Boston, MA 02215.
VISIT www.gwcnyc.com for more information.
2 responses so far
I am a Nurse Practitioner who lives in Medfield Ma.I also have a backround as a psychiatric nurse and which would bring considerable dimension to the nursing role described in your summary of the film. Please let me know if there is still an oppertunity to audition for the role of an extra.
I graduated from Medfield High School in 2007. I am currently a theatre major at Hamilton College in upstate New York. If filming is to last into the late spring and there is an opportunity to audition I would love to have the chance to be a part.