And luckily for you, the people doing the extras casting for the Sex and the City sequel are actively seeking fresh bodies. The breakdown includes requests for many people who fit squarely into the Gawker reader demographic (except for professional soccer players...we doubt they even read Deadspin), so here's the casting notice they sent out today:

Grant Wilfley Casting is holding an open call for background performers for SEX AND THE CITY 2.

Seeking SAG and NON SAG to play:

Fashion Models, Celebrity types, Upscale Socialites, Fashionistas, Urban Club goers, Gays and Lesbians, International types (Middle Eastern, Arabic, Asian, European, British), Professional Soccer Players.

Open Call:

Tuesday, August 4, 2009

Metropolitan Pavilion

125 West 18th Street

between 6th & 7th Avenues.

SAG: 10am- 12:30pm

NON-SAG: 1:30p-4:00p

Email a recent picture and contact info to: sexandthecity2@gwcnyc.com if you cannot attend the open call.

So what are you waiting for? Get out there and make those crazy silver screen dreams come true! Be sure to say hello to our pal aspiring dominant actor Arthur Kade for us when you see him standing in the line at the casting. And of course, don't be shy about filling us in on the whole experience, okay?!

JFP is apparently now an extra-wrangler. For the movies! He was trolling for extras on Craigslist in Atlanta—the posting is now deleted, but luckily it's reproduced right there on his priceless personal website!

DO YOU WANT TO BE IN A MOVIE WITH BILL MURRAY, SISSY SPACEK AND ROBERT DUVALL - THEN COME OUT ON WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY (note dates have been moved back AGAIN due to inclement weather)!
NOTE: to be in this movie, you must use my name - JOHN FITZGERALD PAGE - when you check-in. NO EXCEPTIONS. Leave me your name and the days you can show up at johnfpage@yahoo.com if you plan to come out either or both days.
What: Feature Film - "Get Low" - starring Bill Murray, Sissy Spacek, Robert Duvall http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1194263/
Setting: 1930's
Date: Wednesday 3/4 and Thursday 3/5 (EARLY IN THE MORNING)
When: Call time 3:30 a.m. WOMEN (pre-fit) & MEN (pre-fit) 4 a.m. Pre-fit means you have already been seen by wardrobe.
When: Call time 5 a.m. WOMEN & MEN (not pre-fit). Early birds get closer to the cast!
Scene: outside - a recluse stages his own funeral before he dies and it becomes a huge event with thousands attending.
Temp: (at call time) 35-43 degrees (high) 55-61 degrees- dress appropriately - some heated areas provided. Wear thermals or plain jackets you can take on and off easily.
Food: Complimentary coffee and soup, lunch
Extras: OPEN TO THE PUBLIC! Bring yourself and as many other people as possible (pre-fit or not). We can use you Wednesday (more important day) or Thursday or both days. Email johnfpage@yahoo.com with first & last names and days you plan to attend, then just show up with period clothes, hair & makeup and use JOHN FITZGERALD PAGE at check-in! Find me on set!...

Compensation - No pay, but you get lunch/snacks, a chance for prizes (flat-screen TVs, signed scripts, meet the stars, etc.), to be in a movie and see Bill Murray, Sissy Spacek and Robert Duvall up close!
Perfomance by: STEEL DRIVERS (GRAMMY NOMINATED BAND) WILL BE PERFORMING THROUGHOUT THE DAY

Any Gawker readers in Atlanta had better be there, taking notes. And just FYI, ladies, JFP includes these photos as guidance as to how you might want your hair to look:

Send us full reports! [Read all about JFP here and also here]

As a sudden wave of thunderstorms rolled through Brownsville Tuesday, staff with the Los Angeles-based, On Location Casting shook their heads in disappointment.

The crew, a casting director and assistant, flew into Brownsville Monday in hopes of finding extras to cast on the NBC series, "Friday Night Lights." Only a handful of TV hopefuls showed up for the audition.

"As soon as I saw the gray clouds I thought, 'OK, people are not going to come out in this weather'," said Tina Kerr, extras casting director for On Location Casting.

"We just have to hope it's not like this when we're filming."

Skeptical of the bad weather excuse is the Guanabee blog: Citing Census statistics that ranked Brownsville as "the most impoverished city in the nation with more than 40 percent of the city's 171,000 residents living below the poverty line," they wonder how a little moisture could have been all it took to discourage residents from answering the casting call. We strongly suspect the poor showing was simply the result of the casting department not adequately getting the word out; alternatively, it may also have been a case of the industry-savvy locals closely following the seismic power shifts at the network, and being all too aware that Kevin Reilly's departure didn't bode well for the fate of his unwatched pet project. Brownsville's day players might have instead opted to hold out for a more dependable paycheck, such as a background gig on NBC 'Rock Star' Ben Silverman's upcoming adaptation of Columbian whore-augmentation telenovela hit, Without Breasts There is No Paradise.

• Few answer TV casting call [brownsvilleherald.com via Guanabee]