Girl on Film

Today I got an email from fnac.com saying that my shipment has been sent. What am I ordering from France? None other than Eric Rochant's 1994 film Les Patriotes featuring Yvan Attal, Sandrine Kiberlain, Nancy Allen, Richard Masur, Allen Garfield, Yossi Banai, Emmanuelle Devos, and ME! During my year abroad my boyfriend and I got the chance to be extras in this movie, referred to the casting agency by a friend. I thought it was cool to be in a film with Richard Masur, of One Day at a Time, Encino Man, and Multiplicity fame (among other things).

They turned the Opera Bastille into the National Security Agency. I was a civilian office lackey with really big hair. They can only use you twice, once from behind and once from the front. I guess that's so you stay anonymous and don't get too famous. I also learned that you don't ask the director any questions when you're an extra. I remember having a question about my blocking and asking the director instead of his assistant, the guy in charge of extras. I never got as killer of a look from a French person as I did from him. Dude, I'm just doing my job!

All these years and I have never seen the movie. I never tracked it down. With all of the web commerce it's so easy to order things internationally. I hope they didn't leave me on the cutting room floor!