Right before we were to do the take where we construction workers find out we're all being fired by the big boss lady who then flies off in a helicopter the film's director, Tom DeCillo, who is a super nice guy by the way, said, "Are we ready for our Ann Richards shot?"
He said this because the woman who was playing the big boss lady who fired us construction workers looked like the former governor of Texas, Ann Richards. After asking his question Mr. DeCillo, walked off to confer with John Turturro, the star of the film. Upon hearing Mr. DeCillo's question, the idiot PA/wardrobe woman perked up and asked, "Is Ann Richards in this movie?" I told her that she was not and that the woman who was playing our boss only bore a resemblance to the late Ms. Richards. However since I was only an extra my word was not good enough so the crazy woman shut down the entire set of the film to find out if indeed Ann Richards was in our low budget independent film. She asked everyone, except us extras, if it was true Ann Richards was in our film. After about 30 minutes DeCillo finally came back to where the grips and lighting guys were supposed to be setting up the shot and he asked why nothing had been done. Someone told him that the idiot PA/wardrobe had asked that nothing be done until she could find out if the rumor about Ann Richards being in the film was true. He rolled his eyes and then he told the grips and lighting guys to please set the shot up and he asked them to ignore whatever that woman said from now on, she was standing a few feet away from him when he said that.
I turned to her and said, "So, I guess Ann Richards won't be appearing in the shot huh." She glared at me and then walked away.
That's me batting. If you ever see the film, and you'll see the scene I'm in later because I'm going to record my bit on my camera later today and I'll post it here for all to see, you'll notice I miss the pitch when the duct tape ball gets tossed to me. I hit it dead solid perfect four or five times in rehearsal but when the camera rolled I choked. 
After Turturro catches us playing we all come up to see what he's going to say. That's me on the far left standing there with my belly sticking out and my hands on my hips. The guy who's head I circled is named Ray Aranha. He was super nice to all us extras and he was a total pro. The day we shot these scenes we worked about 14 hours and it was hot and humid as hell out but Ray never complained a bit. He had been on a sitcom on ABC called Married People and I recognized him from that show, when I said I liked him on it he grinned from ear to ear and he seemed genuinely pleased that someone remembered he had been on it. 
The camera stayed on us while Turturro bitched at us for stopping working. Notice how I cocked my head a little, damn that's some fine acting! The guy who's face I put an x on was and still is a total douche. He's one of those guys who to make himself look good and to appear funny constantly runs down everyone else. He bored anyone who would listen with tales about his Harley Davidson motorcycle. He used to hang out in one of the bars we did improv in in Knoxville and I could always hear him trying to talk over us while we did our shows. If I never run into him again it will be too soon.
And finally as the scene wound up we all went back to work and we had to walk toward Mr. Turturro. We were told to walk fast so that it looked like we were eager to get back to work and I nearly walked into Robert. I put my hand on his back to let him know I was coming up fast behind him and when you watch the scene you can see him flinch when I touch him. I guess he wasn't used to being pawed by a damn dirty monkey like me.