Wanted: TV Extras

Two successful Santa Fe-based shows seek local talent

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Locally made television series Manhattan and Longmire are seeking background talent at Jean Cocteau Cinema in downtown Santa Fe for the spring 2015 filming season.

Don’t have a headshot, you say? That’s okay. Pro-photographer Craig Clark will be snapping free headshots in the Cocteau lobby to give to the shows’ casting director, Robert Baxter.

Never saw the shows, you say? After you’re done with your headshot, watch the entire first series of Manhattan at no charge on the Cocteau big screen.

Owned by WGN America, Manhattan dramatizes the family lives of real-life scientists that were involved in the building of the first atomic bomb at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Entering its second season, the show will be filmed in and around Santa Fe, which is no more than 30 miles from the original bomb-building site. Longmire , entering its fourth season, was picked up in November by Netflix after A&E Television Networks dropped the show. Bowing to pressure from advertisers wanting viewers younger than 50, A&E began to option the show after its third season, according to Hollywoodreporter.com, despite being the network's “No. 1 scripted show in A&E’s history.”

The show that chronicles the adventures of a grieving sheriff trying to maintain law and order in a small Wyoming town also is set to continue to film in Santa Fe.

If you’re interested, meet at the hair and make-up trailer outside the Cocteau at 418 Montezuma Avenue on Saturday, Dec. 6, between 9 am and 3 pm.

           
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