ATLANTA, Ga. (CBS46) – Georgia’s explosive film, TV and digital media industries have created lots of exciting opportunities for extras.
Unfortunately, it’s also created opportunities for scams, as Myron McGhee, an Emory University librarian, found out.
“I was simply looking for something fun to do,” McGhee, who’d been exploring the idea of being an extra, said. “I’m getting to the age where I’m getting close to retirement.”
Nine9.com is an online agency McGhee found. For an annual and a monthly fee, the agency claims it can “provide tools and resources for all aspiring talent to find success.”
McGhee went to one of Nine9.com’s open casting calls along with 50 other hopefuls.
“Everything about it was wrong,” he said. “The office was dirty; they had taken magazine photos and put them in dime-store frames on the wall. It was kind of like Pee Wee Herman trying…
