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GRAPEVINE, Page 19Actors with Dirty Faces
By DAVID ELLIS/Reported by Sidney Urquhart
Curly Sue, a Warner Bros. movie currently filming in
Chicago, tells the tale of an eight-year-old girl and her
friendship with a homeless man. The film's casting company,
thinking it would be a good deed to hire real street people as
extras, asked a local shelter for help in attracting recruits.
But most of the 137 people who answered the casting call were
rejected because they were considered too clean. Some recruits,
hungry for a job that pays up to $90 a day, reluctantly traded
in their apparel for filthy costumes. "They had me wear clothes
that had so much dirt on them, it took a couple of days to get
it out from under my nails," complains James Moffatt, one of
the homeless actors. The filmmakers say they will mainly hire
actors for future walk-on parts. Explains a casting staff
member: "When the director asks for street people and bag
people, he wants a certain look."