美語情景對話 第680期:The Extra 羣衆演員

Todd: OK, Matt, we're talking about acting and you were an extra. Can you talk a little about what an extra is and your experience?

託德：馬特，我們來談談演戲，你是名羣衆演員。你能說說羣衆演員是什麼，還有你的經歷嗎？

Matt: Sure. Extra work is basically background in any scene for whatever reason. Obviously, movies and television, they need to be authentic looking so they obviously, in restaurants or in places of public business, they need extras to walk behind the main actors or be set behind the main actors to set the scene, so there is tons of work in Los Angeles and New York for those types of jobs and obviously they are paid a lot less but people do survive doing that and use it as a way to springboard their career and meet people and network and make contacts while they are on the set because extra work is mainly about waiting and you are on the set for long periods of time, from twelve to sixteen hours doing virtually nothing but waiting for the set to be ready for you to go out do your twenty second saying and then go off the set and wait until they reposition the cameras, so it's a very... it's quite boring and so you need to have something else to do while you are waiting and a lot of people in Los Angeles use that to meet people.

馬特：當然可以。羣衆演員可以說就是因爲一些原因出現在戲裏的背景設置。顯然，電影和電視劇都需要呈現出真實的感覺，所以在餐廳或是其他公共場所，需要有羣衆演員在主角後面配合，以完成那個場景，在洛杉磯和紐約有很多這種工作，當然這種工作的薪水很少，不過人們還是會堅持做下去，把這當作是職業生涯的起跳板，在片場去結識朋友、電視公司，建立聯繫，因爲羣衆演員主要是在候場，在片場的時候很長時間都在等待，可能有12至16個小時什麼都不做，只是等待拍攝，而他們的戲份可能只有20秒，之後就是繼續候場等待，直到再輪到他們拍攝，非常無聊，所以在候場時可以找些事情做，洛杉磯有許多人會利用這個機會結識朋友。

Todd: Well, so how did you get started? How did you get onto a movie set?

託德：你是怎麼開始做羣衆演員的？你是怎麼進入電影領域的？

Matt: I was in San Diego living at the time and I had just quit my job in real estate and was taking acting classes in San Diego, and actually the guy who taught my classes also was a pseudo-agent or knew people who did a lot of film work in San Diego and so I was able to get work in San Diego for a couple of months and then from there found out about the extra work and was intrigued and obviously, naturally I was looking towards Los Angeles just because that is where you need to go to get work if want to do that for a career.

馬特：當時我住在聖地亞哥，在辭去房地產業的工作以後在聖地亞哥上了一個演戲培訓班，給我們上課的老師是名經紀人，他認識許多在聖地亞哥從事電影業的人，所以我得到了在聖地亞哥演戲的機會，做了幾個月的時間，之後我就瞭解了羣衆演員的工作，而且我很喜歡這份工作，我搬去洛杉磯的原因是，如果你要想將演戲作爲職業，那你就需要在洛杉磯尋找演戲機會。

Todd: OK. Thanks Matt.

託德：好，謝謝你，馬特。

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重點講解：
1. tons of 大量的，很多的；
例句：There's always tons of scrap paper in Dad's office.
爸爸的辦公室裏總有大量的廢紙。
2. nothing but 只有，僅僅；
例句：I have nothing but disdain for such a person.
對這樣一個人，我只有鄙視。
3. wait for 等待；等候；
例句：She tell the child to stay put and wait for her return.
她叫小孩待在原地不要動，等她回來。
4. find out （尤指特意通過努力）發現，找出，查明；
例句：She means to find out who is to blame.
她想弄清楚誰該受責。