In Up in the Air (2009) some of the fired employees in montages weren’t actors, but employees recently fired who thought they were being interviewed for a documentary
Writer-director Jason Reitman used footage of interviews with real layoff victims. ”I realized I didn’t know how to write these scenes. They were inauthentic,” says Reitman. So he placed ads in local papers in Detroit and St. Louis claiming that he was auditioning subjects for a documentary — a ruse to attract real people instead of actors. Cozy Bailey, a former Styrofoam technician from Affton, Mo., who responded to the ad, says she was stunned to find that her interview was really for a George Clooney film. ”It sucks to get fired, it doesn’t matter by who,” she laughs, ”but it was extremely exciting.” She also found the experience cathartic, a feeling echoed by Kevin Pilla, a laid-off engineer in St. Louis. ”It gave us the opportunity to say things that we didn’t think of off the top of our head [when we were laid off] because we were in such shock,” he says. ”Giving real America a chance to tell their story and incorporating it into a Hollywood setting?it’s just remarkable.”
youvebeenshyamalaned on May 12nd, 2020 at 01:45 UTC »
Btw they also weren’t interviewed by George Clooney and Anna Kendrick
soadArmenia2020 on May 12nd, 2020 at 02:51 UTC »
Hopefully they got compensated!! That’s savage
jessebryant on May 12nd, 2020 at 05:53 UTC »
Writer-director Jason Reitman used footage of interviews with real layoff victims. ”I realized I didn’t know how to write these scenes. They were inauthentic,” says Reitman. So he placed ads in local papers in Detroit and St. Louis claiming that he was auditioning subjects for a documentary — a ruse to attract real people instead of actors. Cozy Bailey, a former Styrofoam technician from Affton, Mo., who responded to the ad, says she was stunned to find that her interview was really for a George Clooney film. ”It sucks to get fired, it doesn’t matter by who,” she laughs, ”but it was extremely exciting.” She also found the experience cathartic, a feeling echoed by Kevin Pilla, a laid-off engineer in St. Louis. ”It gave us the opportunity to say things that we didn’t think of off the top of our head [when we were laid off] because we were in such shock,” he says. ”Giving real America a chance to tell their story and incorporating it into a Hollywood setting?it’s just remarkable.”
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