[pimlottc]

> For example, a person who accidentally entered an active shoot of a Hollywood movie encountered the actors and had a short conversation with them. The footage turned out to work well with the scene, and the director wanted to keep it. In order to do so, not only did they have to pay this person and give them credit for a speaking role, they had to be given membership in the Screen Actors' Guild.

Did this actually happen or are you speaking hypothetically?

[Suzuran]

It happened but I don't remember which movie. It's not the often-quoted Star Trek instance - In that case, the woman was a first-time extra who was not aware that extras are not supposed to speak, even when directed to "act natural". In the case I am thinking of, they forgot to rope off a park entrance or something like that, and someone who regularly went there just did their usual thing and blundered into an active shoot.