Acting is a profession that requires training and knowledge, and is based on experience acquired over the years and filming. But each production, whether cinematographic or theatrical, is the result of the work of a greater number of people; many of them are very visible, although unnoticed, for whom having a career in the performing arts is not an essential condition. This week, Castings for an international science fiction series are taking place in Santiago which will take place in Galicia. The identity of the project has not yet been revealed to the public and for the moment we only know that it will have a post-apocalyptic setting, that it will follow a plot linked to terror and that its production is American. But, in the absence of official confirmation, in the corridors and outside the building that has hosted the process since Wednesday, two words are repeated that are fueling more and more rumors: “Daryl Dixon”, the title of the spin-off of the famous series “The Walking Dead”, namesake of its protagonist who has already announced the start of filming of its third season in Spain. In any case, under the provisional name of ‘Peregrinos’, the casting offers the opportunity to be part of the world of cinema for a day without regard to previous requirements or merits.
But that doesn’t mean that a job like this doesn’t require commitment. A shoot of this type can last up to thirteen hours and be very tiring, with very variable rhythms. “Sometimes you don’t have to stop and move from one place to another. In others, there can be waits of two hours,” Yaël Moreno, from the representation agency Yaeldeperfil, tells ABC. In fact, he says that The need to have a full day surprises more than one, who feels that, since he will eventually appear on screen in a very short time, his work can be finished in a few hours. Nothing more: if selected, “bring the biggest bag you have at home, full of patience to support us, each other, the others, because we will spend a very long and eternal day,” he recommended to the candidates. on Wednesday. The selected candidates will therefore have to completely empty their agendas on October 1 and 2, the date on which the shooting will take place in the city center.
The scenes that will be recorded will be those of a kind of medieval market that takes place between several villages who trade food, weapons and tools. The series takes place in a world where civilization has fallen into the hands of certain “creatures” and has barely experienced a regression to the Middle Ages, without electric light or telecommunications. AND will follow the protagonists, after arriving by boat on the Galician coast from London as they tried to reach the United States.
“All interested craftsmen, traders and merchants will be welcome. We will also need people who know archery and people who look like Vikings, with beards and long hair,” the agency said in a recent statement. But the casting welcomes people with profiles and ages of all kinds, because variety is another element to cultivate. The additional participation consists of dedicating a whole day, or even more, to intense work that This does not require learning any script, but it does require punctuality, rigor and respect for instructions. provided by the team in charge. When filming begins, the set becomes a sanctuary where there is no room for interruptions, which also excludes any type of mobile phone. “So I can’t take selfies, or photos of the actors or how cute they made me look, or the sets” as impressive as they are, laments Yaël Moreno. But, with the knowledge that his profession brings him, it is clear: “It is a unique experience and it is worth living.”
For beginners and veterans
There must be a reason, because for more than one candidate who attended Wednesday’s casting, it would not be their first time. The auditions bring together beginners and veterans; some, it was commented on Wednesday during the waiting times, with experience participating in productions of other formats, such as commercials, and others, also in series, such as ‘El Caso Asunta’, also filmed in Compostela. And, when we talk about characteristics and ages, a whole range: people from different backgrounds, young and old, waited their turn the first of the three days that the process lasts. –from Wednesday to Friday–, which takes place in the Cersia building, in San Lázaro, from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. and from 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. When the time comes, the representation team takes a few photos and notes the contact details of each candidate, who is contacted again after a few days, if selected.
It is then, if the answer is affirmative – and once the times and dates are confirmed – that “the engagement begins” between the extra and the production. Once the conditions are known and the transaction concluded, your presence is assumed, because Last minute absences can be very disruptive which has already been organized. But the doors are open to all those interested in the experience of setting up and working on a film set, until Friday afternoon, in Santiago.
