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[โ€“] xia@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Surely people would line up to be extras in film... why would they resort to GTA NPCs?

[โ€“] wombatula@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Clearly said by someone that hasn't worked in the industry.

Extra work is often miserable, has 0 job security, and is really only suitable for people with very little or no expenses.

Furthermore crowds are regularly filled with fake extras, even back to the 90s most times you worked as an extra in a crowd scene it was one or two rows of humans standing in front of a dozen rows of cardboard cutouts.