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Cast the Expert

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Cast the Expert	comment	The thing about actors is that most actors are actors. While they are expected to portray fictional characters engaged in a wide variety of occupations, they rarely have the experience to be truly skilled in everything that the character does in the story. Generally, this isn't a problem. Enough skills can be acquired to fake the job through training from an expert, and for particularly complex tasks a Stunt Double, Talent Double, or Voice Double can be used. However, on rare occasions, a person, sometimes even a non-actor, will be cast in a role partly because they already have skills from non-acting work experience or a major hobby that are relevant to the role they are being asked to portray. Examples include both extras and main characters. If the extras are soldiers assigned to the production by the military, it is probably evidence that the film is Backed by the Pentagon. Compare to The Cast Showoff where scenes are added to an actor's role to give them a chance to show off a talent, and Irony as She Is Cast when actors are required to display Stylistic Suck in a talent which they are actually quite skilled at. This trope only refers to someone being cast as a fictional character or as a fictionalized portrayal of a real person. Reality TV, game shows and the like do not count. Neither do non-fictional informative shows hosted by experts in their field, as it is not only normal but pretty much required that, for example, someone that hosts a home improvement show should know something about home improvement. This is one of the possible methods of using Meta Casting to give added depth to a production. Compare Non-Actor Vehicle, Autobiographical Role, and As Himself (since nobody can be more an expert in being yourself than yourself). Related to Disabled Character, Disabled Actor and Queer Character, Queer Actor and Super-Trope to Newscaster Cameo.
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Cast the Expert / int_10af6a70	comment	Anatomy of a Murder: Judge Weaver was played by Real Life lawyer Joseph N. Welch, who was already legendary for being the one to finally give the Armor-Piercing Question that brought down Senator Joe McCarthy during the Army-McCarthy Hearings.
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Cast the Expert / int_1215a23d	comment	Genshin Impact: The character Yun Jin is a performer of Chinese opera (or Liyue opera, as it's known in game). Her normal speaking voice is done by regular voice actors in each of the four voiceover languages, but her singing is done by Chinese opera singer Yang Yang, and Yang's singing is always heard regardless of which language you've set your audio to.
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Cast the Expert / int_13b632a0	comment	For Ivan the Terrible, Sergei Eisenstein used actual Soviet soldiers for the battle sequences, which kept them from going to actual combat during World War II.
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Cast the Expert / int_1463a028	comment	On one episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Stabler's pregnant wife was involved in an automobile accident and a good portion of the episode involved her being extracted from the wrecked car. The FDNY firefighters who responded were real and, aside from minor variations for drama purposes (such as allowing Benson to go into the car to assist instead of a firefighter or paramedic), did exactly what they would do in a real vehicle extraction.
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Cast the Expert / int_153f674f	comment	Miami Vice cast their technical advisor, marksman Jim Zubiena, as a Trigger-Happy hitman in "The Hit List".
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Cast the Expert / int_174e641b	comment	Any Given Sunday featured NFL Hall of Famer Lawrence Taylor as one of the Sharks linebackers. And Terrell Owens As Himself. Hall of Fame running back Jim Brown plays one of the Sharks coaches.
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Cast the Expert / int_17af7793	comment	Trading Places: All the traders seen towards the end are actual traders, who taught Dan Aykroyd, Eddie Murphy, and Richard Hunt how to trade commodities.
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Cast the Expert / int_1912c36f	comment	Two taxi drivers in Regardless and Carry On Loving played by Fred Griffiths, who was a taxi driver in real life before becoming an actor.
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Cast the Expert / int_1af1c33d	comment	The Chorus: All the boys in this film about the creation of a choir at a Boarding School of Horrors are members of the Real Life choir Les Petits Chanteurs de Saint-Marc, including choir member Jean-Baptise Maunier playing Pierre Morhange, a boy with an exceptional singing voice.
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Cast the Expert / int_1cf9838c	comment	Bill Nye the Science Guy: Bill Nye's casting on his show is an example itself. While not a full blown physicist like his fictional-counterpart, he is a mechanical engineer so he has legitimately great understanding of physics. A few episodes of NUMB3RS have Bill Nye play a scientist. He also does this in an episode of Stargate Atlantis, playing a key part in saving the day.
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Cast the Expert / int_1e015a5d	comment	Most of the Rebel soldiers at the Battle of Hoth in The Empire Strikes Back were Norwegian soldiers.
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Cast the Expert / int_1face1d7	comment	Adam-12: The police dispatcher in the series, whose voice can be heard in every episode, was played by an uncredited real-life LAPD dispatcher, Shaaron (sic) Claridge.
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Cast the Expert / int_1fbec17c	comment	Casey Wong and his MediaBreak co-host in the first two movies, Jess Perkins, were played by real-life anchors: Wong by the late Mario Machado and Perkins by Leeza Gibson during her tenure on Entertainment Tonight.
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Cast the Expert / int_20336460	comment	Jagged Alliance: Leo Kelly's bio mentions that between jobs as a globe-trotting mercenary, the good colonel also works as a technical consultant for various film producers.
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Cast the Expert / int_216cb8a2	comment	In Zack and Miri Make a Porno, among the motley crew that Zack and Miri hire to make their titular porno are performers played by actual (former and then-current) pornographic actors Traci Lords and Katie Morgan. This was discussed in one behind-the-scenes DVD extra in which it was noted that an advantage in doing so was that the porn stars would be willing to go a bit further than many mainstreams actors might feel comfortable with when it came to the movie's more raunchy aspects (since they were used to that kind of thing in their day jobs) but at the same time, the fact that it was a mainstream movie meant that they would get a break from the kind of things they were used to doing in porn.
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Cast the Expert / int_2212773a	comment	Angel: Summer Glau was actually discovered this way. Glau, who is a trained dancer, was originally cast as a ballerina in an episode of the show.
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Cast the Expert / int_221caa0f	comment	Betty: All of the protagonists are real skate boarders, playing fictional versions of themselves and doing their own stunts.
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Cast the Expert / int_22211d68	comment	On Bones one of the actors in the Film of the Book of one of Dr. Brennan's novels studied to be a scientist and was hired because the Techno Babble didn't scare him off. This becomes useful when it turns out a real murder had taken place on set, and they needed additional help examining the body.
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Cast the Expert / int_222a8847	comment	The medical team attempting to resuscitate Murphy in RoboCop (1987) were played by a real-life trauma team. They were allowed to improvise their lines, and on the DVD commentary, the writers mention how it turned out better than what they ever could have thought up. One reason it worked so well is that the image of a trauma team working on a dying man in such a calm, emotionless, business-like manner feels incredibly creepy. Most people expect the ER team to act like they do on TV.
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Cast the Expert / int_2250e67e	comment	Star Trek: Enterprise. In Season 3 the Enterprise starts taking a regular hammering during the Xindi arc, so featured a lot of scenes where the main characters would walk down a corridor in the midst of being repaired. As this involved Building Is Welding, the Paramount set constructors (who were familiar with using welding equipment safely) were put in Starfleet uniforms as background extras.
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Cast the Expert / int_22b5dcdb	comment	In "Visitor From Italy", the pizza chef in the restaurant where Lucy works was played by chef and restaurant owner Aldo Formica, who also taught Lucille Ball to twirl pizza dough so she could do it in the episode. Nineteen years later, he played a similar role in an episode of Maude.
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Cast the Expert / int_2475f237	comment	Carry On... Series: Real-life boxer Freddie Mills plays Lefty Vincent in Carry On Regardless Two taxi drivers in Regardless and Carry On Loving played by Fred Griffiths, who was a taxi driver in real life before becoming an actor.
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Cast the Expert / int_25124728	comment	When Disney did Brother Bear, they went to Angayuqaq Oscar Kawagley for advice on the Inuit language. They liked the way he spoke Inukituk so much, they created a narrator role for him.
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Cast the Expert / int_277c2476	comment	In Performance, some of the minor cast members appearing as London Gangsters were reputedly the real thing.
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Cast the Expert / int_28724fb2	comment	Titanic: All the crew aboard the research ship and its submarine are actual research-ship-and-submarine crewmembers. Cameron hired the Akademic Mstislav Keldysh to visit the wreck, and kept them on the payroll for use as set and extras once the production phase started. The Swiss chamber band I Salonisti was hired not only to record the classical performances by the ship's band, but to portray the ill-fated band members as well, alongside actor Jonathan Evans-Jones who played the role of bandleader Wallace Hartley.
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Cast the Expert / int_2dfd87a4	comment	The Rookie (2018): Katy O'Brian, a former police officer, played Katie Barnes, an LAPD officer, on The Rookie (2018).
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Cast the Expert / int_2e889d61	comment	The character of Janet in The Drowsy Chaperone is a (presumably) Broadway actress in the Show Within a Show, "The Drowsy Chaperone". Therefore, Sutton Foster, who played Janet on Broadway, was a well-known Broadway actress, playing a Broadway actress, who was playing a well-known actress.
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Cast the Expert / int_2feff3ce	comment	On Grey's Anatomy, many of the nurses (including the omni-present Bokhee), are played by actual nurses. Subverted, however, as they rarely do much past pass instruments in surgery.
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Cast the Expert / int_304d1610	comment	Soul Surfer, a biography of one-armed, world-class surfer Bethany Hamilton, featured Hamilton herself in all its surfing scenes.
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Cast the Expert / int_30940081	comment	During production of Grand Theft Auto V, Rockstar hired actual gang members to voice some of the side characters, and they often rewrote the dialogue when it seemed unrealistic. Lead actor Shawn Fonteno, who plays Franklin, is no stranger to gang life himself, as revealed in an interview, adding to the game's authenticity.
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Cast the Expert / int_35a060cc	comment	A minor example in Airplane!: The screenwriters wrote lines for the two black characters who "only speak Jive". The actors who were cast in the roles pointed out that all the lines were ridiculous and were allowed to improvise their own dialogue.
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Cast the Expert / int_35e675e2	comment	Vikings: Katheryn Winnick, the actress who plays the Action Girl shieldmaiden Lagertha, has studied martial arts since childhood and started her own schools.
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Cast the Expert / int_36151c33	comment	Hawaii Five-O: Jazz/pop singer Nancy Wilson played a jazz singer addicted to heroin in the episode "Trouble In Mind". A couple of years later, she played a self-centered jazz singer whose daughter is kidnapped by her vengeful ex-manager (Hal Linden) in an episode of The F.B.I., "The Confession".
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Cast the Expert / int_369e7a11	comment	As could be expected, the Rocky series has cast several real-life boxers, usually in bit parts. The most prominent ones are the main opponents in Rocky V and Rocky Balboa, played by Tommy Morrison and Antonio Tarver. Furthermore, in Rocky III Rocky is in a boxer-vs-wrestler bout with "Thunderlips", played by Hulk Hogan. Hogan was a Monster Heel at the time, as is Thunderlips.
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Cast the Expert / int_375da5af	comment	E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial: The doctors are real doctors. The commentary mentions that this was because actors wouldn't quite speak as if they had been using the proper terms for years because, well, they hadn't been.
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Cast the Expert / int_39325ce	comment	The metafictional horror film Shadow of the Vampire is based around the idea that Max Schreck, the actor who played the Dracula Captain Ersatz Graf Orlok in Nosferatu, was a real vampire who Murnau knowingly allowed to eat his way through the cast and crew.
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Cast the Expert / int_3a5b48d9	comment	Vampirina creator Chris Nee got Jorge GutiÃ©rrez to be heavily involved with the Dia De Los Muertos episode, from the writing to the character designs, and even the voice work, due to their past work together on Maya & Miguel.
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Cast the Expert / int_3a9a0718	comment	Real-life boxer Freddie Mills plays Lefty Vincent in Carry On Regardless
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Cast the Expert / int_3c7d2003	comment	A lot of the extras recruited to play biker gang members for the original were actual local bikers, whom the pocket-change-budget production paid in beer.
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Cast the Expert / int_3c8a74fc	comment	Many major league sports telecasts recruit former players in that sport to be color analysts. Special mention goes to CBS Sports' pickup of former Dallas Cowboys player Tony Romo, who spent years under center for the team, and as such, brought explanations for some of the seemingly-pointless pre-snap motion calls, and is known to correctly predict plays before they happen, leading to him getting the nickname Romostradamus. Likewise the crew of Ran NFL is almost entirely former players and coaches who sometimes allude to something that happened in their playing days.
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Cast the Expert / int_3d6e4e50	comment	The 1961 British sci-fi/disaster film The Day the Earth Caught Fire is set at real-life London newspaper the Daily Express, so the paper's longtime former editor, Arthur Christiansen, was cast as the editor in the film.
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Cast the Expert / int_41c079f8	comment	GLOW, a Very Loosely Based on a True Story show about the now-defunct all-female wrestling promotion, has plenty of actual wrestlers in the cast, most notably multi-time Women's Champion Kia Stevens.
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Cast the Expert / int_43052465	comment	Captain Phillips: The final scene was a spur-of-the-moment, unscripted addition. The medic treating Captain Phillips was portrayed by an actual navy medic (Petty Officer Corpsman 2nd Class Danielle Albert), who was advised to just treat him as she would a real-life patient.
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Cast the Expert / int_4320d945	comment	The Wrestler: WWE fans will note that Ron Killings, now known as R-Truth, is among the indie wrestlers that make cameos in the film. WCW fans may recognize Ernest "The Cat" Miller as The Ayatollah. And ECW fans will recognize The Blue Meanie. In fact, every wrestler you see in this movie is a professional wrestler in real life, and they're using their actual gimmicks (save for Miller).
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Cast the Expert / int_43abaff4	comment	The Exorcist: Father Dyer is played by Reverend William O'Malley S.J., a real-life Jesuit priest. William Friedkin commented that instead of looking for another actor to play Fr. Dyer, he went looking for a real-life priest who knew how to act. The medical technicians who test Regan are also real medical technicians. Eerily, one of them was later convicted of murder - and was implicated in, although never charged with, the serial killings that inspired a later William Friedkin film, Cruising.
Cast the Expert / int_43abaff4	featureApplicability	1.0
Cast the Expert / int_43abaff4	featureConfidence	1.0
The Exorcist	hasFeature	Cast the Expert / int_43abaff4
Cast the Expert / int_44127c7c	type	Cast the Expert
Cast the Expert / int_44127c7c	comment	Power Rangers regularly casts martial artists, dancers, and gymnasts as the main heroes, people who know how to use their bodies for fight scenes. It sometimes goes in the opposite direction as well, tailoring the character to the performer. Amy Jo Johnson is a gymnast, so was Kimberly; Walter Emanuel Jones is a dancer, so was Zach; Nakia Burrise is a singer, so was Tanya; and so on.
Cast the Expert / int_44127c7c	featureApplicability	1.0
Cast the Expert / int_44127c7c	featureConfidence	1.0
Power Rangers (Franchise)	hasFeature	Cast the Expert / int_44127c7c
Cast the Expert / int_44e08ee8	type	Cast the Expert
Cast the Expert / int_44e08ee8	comment	Homicide: Life on the Street: Gary D'Addario, a retired police commander, inspired the character Al Giardello, and played a recurring role as QRT head Lt. Jasper.
Cast the Expert / int_44e08ee8	featureApplicability	1.0
Cast the Expert / int_44e08ee8	featureConfidence	1.0
Homicide: Life on the Street	hasFeature	Cast the Expert / int_44e08ee8
Cast the Expert / int_4522bcaf	type	Cast the Expert
Cast the Expert / int_4522bcaf	comment	An episode of Poker Face features John Darnielle, lead singer of the Mountain Goats, as the guitarist in a punk band.
Cast the Expert / int_4522bcaf	featureApplicability	1.0
Cast the Expert / int_4522bcaf	featureConfidence	1.0
Poker Face	hasFeature	Cast the Expert / int_4522bcaf
Cast the Expert / int_4536944a	type	Cast the Expert
Cast the Expert / int_4536944a	comment	Real strippers were used to play strippers in Stripped to Kill. Director Katt Shea gave the strippers she cast acting classes in the living room of her home.
Cast the Expert / int_4536944a	featureApplicability	1.0
Cast the Expert / int_4536944a	featureConfidence	1.0
Stripped to Kill	hasFeature	Cast the Expert / int_4536944a
Cast the Expert / int_47154f74	type	Cast the Expert
Cast the Expert / int_47154f74	comment	In Knockout, the antagonist is the women's world lightweight boxing champion, and was played by real world champion boxer, kickboxer, and martial artist Fredia Gibbs. Real-life pro boxer Dora Webber also plays a lower-level boxer the protagonist fights early on.
Cast the Expert / int_47154f74	featureApplicability	1.0
Cast the Expert / int_47154f74	featureConfidence	1.0
Knockout	hasFeature	Cast the Expert / int_47154f74
Cast the Expert / int_473ad55a	type	Cast the Expert
Cast the Expert / int_473ad55a	comment	In Ice Princess, Nikki Flether (the "Jumping Shrimp") is played by real-life figure-skater Kirsten Olson.
Cast the Expert / int_473ad55a	featureApplicability	1.0
Cast the Expert / int_473ad55a	featureConfidence	1.0
Ice Princess	hasFeature	Cast the Expert / int_473ad55a
Cast the Expert / int_48e6dfa0	type	Cast the Expert
Cast the Expert / int_48e6dfa0	comment	The Enemy Below. Many of the sailors on the destroyer escort were Real Life U.S. sailors provided by the Defense Department. Likewise, the person playing the ship's chief engineer was the ship's actual commanding officer.
Cast the Expert / int_48e6dfa0	featureApplicability	1.0
Cast the Expert / int_48e6dfa0	featureConfidence	1.0
The Enemy Below	hasFeature	Cast the Expert / int_48e6dfa0
Cast the Expert / int_4962e658	type	Cast the Expert
Cast the Expert / int_4962e658	comment	In Mean Girls 2, the antagonist gets a karate master for her flag football team. Said girl is playing by real-life blackbelt Autumn Dial.
Cast the Expert / int_4962e658	featureApplicability	1.0
Cast the Expert / int_4962e658	featureConfidence	1.0
Mean Girls	hasFeature	Cast the Expert / int_4962e658
Cast the Expert / int_4a059a74	type	Cast the Expert
Cast the Expert / int_4a059a74	comment	The Mandalorian Carasynthia Dune, a former Rebel shocktrooper, is played by former MMA fighter Gina Carano. Cara is arguably better at hand-to-hand than the Mandalorian-trained protagonist, and she even gets a little The Cast Showoff scene where she prize-fights a very burly-looking alien man in a bar and wins. A Tusken raider who communicates with the protagonist using sign language is played by Deaf actor Troy Kotsur, who is fluent in Native American Sign Language and also assisted in developing the Tusken sign language used in the show. Magistrate Morgan Elsbeth is portrayed by martial artist Diana Lee Inosanto, daughter of Dan Inosanto, who fought Bruce Lee in Game of Death. She even starred in, directed, wrote, and helped produce her own martial arts movie, The Sensei. After Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni saw the trailer, they agreed that she has exactly the kind of skills and background you would want from a foe capable of going up against a Jedi in single combat.
Cast the Expert / int_4a059a74	featureApplicability	1.0
Cast the Expert / int_4a059a74	featureConfidence	1.0
The Mandalorian	hasFeature	Cast the Expert / int_4a059a74
Cast the Expert / int_4a625f23	type	Cast the Expert
Cast the Expert / int_4a625f23	comment	In Night and the City, the wrestler managed by Richard Widmark is played by pro wrestling great Stanislaus Zbyszko. His opponent in the pivotal wrestling match is played by character actor Mike Mazurki, himself a former pro wrestler.
Cast the Expert / int_4a625f23	featureApplicability	1.0
Cast the Expert / int_4a625f23	featureConfidence	1.0
Night and the City	hasFeature	Cast the Expert / int_4a625f23
Cast the Expert / int_4abb06ab	type	Cast the Expert
Cast the Expert / int_4abb06ab	comment	The Flowers of St. Francis by Roberto Rossellini is a movie about St Francis and the early Franciscans, based on Fioretti di San Francesco (or Little Flowers of St. Francis) and La Vita di Frate Ginepro (or The Life of Brother Juniper). The men who played St Francis and his followers were actual Franciscans.
Cast the Expert / int_4abb06ab	featureApplicability	1.0
Cast the Expert / int_4abb06ab	featureConfidence	1.0
The Flowers of St. Francis	hasFeature	Cast the Expert / int_4abb06ab
Cast the Expert / int_4af24bb7	type	Cast the Expert
Cast the Expert / int_4af24bb7	comment	Miracle cast actual college hockey players as members of the 1980 US Olympic team. Special mention goes to Billy Schneider, who played his father, Buzz. Additionally, Al Michaels was brought in to re-record most of his commentary from the USA-USSR match.note His newly recorded lines fade into the original audio from the game just in time for "Do you believe in miracles? Yes!" as it was felt any recreation couldn't possibly do the moment justice.
Cast the Expert / int_4af24bb7	featureApplicability	1.0
Cast the Expert / int_4af24bb7	featureConfidence	1.0
Miracle	hasFeature	Cast the Expert / int_4af24bb7
Cast the Expert / int_4b790c7b	type	Cast the Expert
Cast the Expert / int_4b790c7b	comment	In Iron Man 3, the crew of the Air Force One was played by an actual skydiving crew wearing special breakaway costumes with concealed parachutes; so, the scene where they are all Thrown Out the Airlock following the President's kidnapping and saved by a remote-controlled Iron Man suit is basically an elaborate (and pretty risky, as the last one is pretty close to hitting the water when he's saved) skydiving stunt.
Cast the Expert / int_4b790c7b	featureApplicability	1.0
Cast the Expert / int_4b790c7b	featureConfidence	1.0
Iron Man 3	hasFeature	Cast the Expert / int_4b790c7b
Cast the Expert / int_4c90a0f7	type	Cast the Expert
Cast the Expert / int_4c90a0f7	comment	United 93 cast several experts in to make the film as authentic as possible, like Captain Dahl being portrayed by United Airlines pilot J.J. Johnson. The most impressive, however, is that Greengrass managed to cast several people involved in the event to reenact that day, with the most notable being Ben Sliney reenacting his first day as the FAA National Operations Manager.
Cast the Expert / int_4c90a0f7	featureApplicability	1.0
Cast the Expert / int_4c90a0f7	featureConfidence	1.0
United 93	hasFeature	Cast the Expert / int_4c90a0f7
Cast the Expert / int_4fa1f17b	type	Cast the Expert
Cast the Expert / int_4fa1f17b	comment	The Cowboys: About half the boys were played by junior rodeo champions who were already experts at "cowboy skills" like riding and roping, and who needed to learn how to act. (The other half were played by actors who needed to learn how to ride and rope.)
Cast the Expert / int_4fa1f17b	featureApplicability	1.0
Cast the Expert / int_4fa1f17b	featureConfidence	1.0
The Cowboys	hasFeature	Cast the Expert / int_4fa1f17b
Cast the Expert / int_5018e5dd	type	Cast the Expert
Cast the Expert / int_5018e5dd	comment	In both the original Broadway production and the film version of The Music Man, the school board who always disagreed about everything until Professor Hill tricked them into being a barbershop quartet were played by The Buffalo Bills, an award-winning barbershop quartet.
Cast the Expert / int_5018e5dd	featureApplicability	1.0
Cast the Expert / int_5018e5dd	featureConfidence	1.0
The Music Man (Theatre)	hasFeature	Cast the Expert / int_5018e5dd
Cast the Expert / int_513f5832	type	Cast the Expert
Cast the Expert / int_513f5832	comment	Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home featured real-life naval and marine personnel aboard the aircraft carrier USS Ranger, which was doubling for the actual USS Enterprise.
Cast the Expert / int_513f5832	featureApplicability	1.0
Cast the Expert / int_513f5832	featureConfidence	1.0
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home	hasFeature	Cast the Expert / int_513f5832
Cast the Expert / int_5153cea1	type	Cast the Expert
Cast the Expert / int_5153cea1	comment	Sam Holt: Sam was an actual cop before he got a job playing a detective.
Cast the Expert / int_5153cea1	featureApplicability	1.0
Cast the Expert / int_5153cea1	featureConfidence	1.0
Sam Holt	hasFeature	Cast the Expert / int_5153cea1
Cast the Expert / int_51a94dc	type	Cast the Expert
Cast the Expert / int_51a94dc	comment	Slap Shot had a number of minor league hockey players among its cast. The actors who played the (in)famous Hanson brothers were in the major league World Hockey Association, meaning the archetypal unskilled thugs of hockey cinema were visibly stronger players than any of their costars! As a bonus, the Hansons were based on the Carlson brothers, two of whom essentially played themselves in the film as two of the Hansons.note The third brother had been called up by the Edmonton Oilers and was consequently unavailable for the film. The third brother was played by David Hanson, who also served as inspiration for "Killer" Carlson.note Before Jack Carlson was called up, Dave Hanson would've played Killer; he took Jack's place due to his own familiarity with the brothers, having been teammates with them.
Cast the Expert / int_51a94dc	featureApplicability	1.0
Cast the Expert / int_51a94dc	featureConfidence	1.0
Slap Shot	hasFeature	Cast the Expert / int_51a94dc
Cast the Expert / int_53a0bd8b	type	Cast the Expert
Cast the Expert / int_53a0bd8b	comment	The Twilight Zone (1985): In "Grace Note", the operatic soprano Julia Migenes played Rosemarie Miletti, an aspiring opera singer who eventually becomes a star. In "Love is Blind", the folk singer Sneezy Waters played the Blind Musician.
Cast the Expert / int_53a0bd8b	featureApplicability	1.0
Cast the Expert / int_53a0bd8b	featureConfidence	1.0
The Twilight Zone (1985)	hasFeature	Cast the Expert / int_53a0bd8b
Cast the Expert / int_560dbc3e	type	Cast the Expert
Cast the Expert / int_560dbc3e	comment	Jurassic Park (Sega CD) has dinosaur information kiosks strewn around the park; activating one gives you some information courtesy of paleontologist Dr. Robert T. Bakker. An ironic example considering both the original film and its sequel poked fun at Bakker.
Cast the Expert / int_560dbc3e	featureApplicability	1.0
Cast the Expert / int_560dbc3e	featureConfidence	1.0
Jurassic Park (Sega CD) (Video Game)	hasFeature	Cast the Expert / int_560dbc3e
Cast the Expert / int_5685844c	type	Cast the Expert
Cast the Expert / int_5685844c	comment	In Persona 4: Arena Ultimax, the skills Yukari Takeba picked up with a bow and arrow during her time as a member of S.E.E.S. help her land a role as Pink Argus in Phoenix Ranger Featherman Victory.
Cast the Expert / int_5685844c	featureApplicability	1.0
Cast the Expert / int_5685844c	featureConfidence	1.0
Persona 4: Arena Ultimax (Video Game)	hasFeature	Cast the Expert / int_5685844c
Cast the Expert / int_5844489a	type	Cast the Expert
Cast the Expert / int_5844489a	comment	In Terror Train, Ken the Magician is played Real Life Stage Magician David Copperfield.
Cast the Expert / int_5844489a	featureApplicability	1.0
Cast the Expert / int_5844489a	featureConfidence	1.0
Terror Train	hasFeature	Cast the Expert / int_5844489a
Cast the Expert / int_59dd6d2d	type	Cast the Expert
Cast the Expert / int_59dd6d2d	comment	Center Stage (2000), an archetypal teen ballet flick, avoided a lot of problems by doing this. Main character Jody Sawyer was played by Amanda Schull, who spent three years as a member of the San Francisco Ballet's corps de ballet; Charlie Sims, meanwhile, was played by American Ballet Theatre soloist and later Dutch National Ballet principal Sascha Radetsky. Prima ballerina Kathleen was played by the legendary Julie Kent, also of ABT. And the brilliant choreographer and dancer Cooper Nielsen was played by.... brilliant choreographer and dancer Ethan Stiefel, one of the best male ballet dancers in American history, who was a principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre at the time and had been for years. In addition, some of the students at the school were played by now big-name dancers, including Gillian Murphynote incidentally, now married to Ethan Stiefel, Jonathan Stafford, Jared Angle, and Craig Hall.
Cast the Expert / int_59dd6d2d	featureApplicability	1.0
Cast the Expert / int_59dd6d2d	featureConfidence	1.0
Center Stage (2000)	hasFeature	Cast the Expert / int_59dd6d2d
Cast the Expert / int_5a077317	type	Cast the Expert
Cast the Expert / int_5a077317	comment	Sons of Anarchy, a show about the eponymous (fictional) outlaw motorcycle club, had cast Sonny Barger, a real-life Hells Angel and a co-founder of the Angels' Oakland charter, as Lenny "The Pimp" Janowitz, a founding member of the title club.
Cast the Expert / int_5a077317	featureApplicability	1.0
Cast the Expert / int_5a077317	featureConfidence	1.0
Sons of Anarchy	hasFeature	Cast the Expert / int_5a077317
Cast the Expert / int_5ada53ed	type	Cast the Expert
Cast the Expert / int_5ada53ed	comment	James Bond: In For Your Eyes Only, figure skater Lynn-Holly Johnson plays an aspiring Olympic figure skater with a crush on Bond. The guy Bond pursues in the Le Parkour chase scene at the beginning of Casino Royale is actually one of the inventors of Parkour, SÃ©bastien Foucan.
Cast the Expert / int_5ada53ed	featureApplicability	1.0
Cast the Expert / int_5ada53ed	featureConfidence	1.0
James Bond	hasFeature	Cast the Expert / int_5ada53ed
Cast the Expert / int_5b33829b	type	Cast the Expert
Cast the Expert / int_5b33829b	comment	In Nacho Libre, a film satirizing the lucha libre style of pro wrestling, the villain Ramses was played by lucha libre legend Silver King. California indie circuit star Human Tornado played El Tornado, the titular character's first opponent, while longtime mini-estrella Mascarita Dorada had a bit part as one half of the mini-estrella tag team Los Duendes.
Cast the Expert / int_5b33829b	featureApplicability	1.0
Cast the Expert / int_5b33829b	featureConfidence	1.0
Nacho Libre	hasFeature	Cast the Expert / int_5b33829b
Cast the Expert / int_5c72c3f4	type	Cast the Expert
Cast the Expert / int_5c72c3f4	comment	In Seabiscuit, George "the Iceman" Woolf is played by real-life Kentucky Derby-winning jockey Gary Stevens.
Cast the Expert / int_5c72c3f4	featureApplicability	1.0
Cast the Expert / int_5c72c3f4	featureConfidence	1.0
Seabiscuit	hasFeature	Cast the Expert / int_5c72c3f4
Cast the Expert / int_5e0f78d3	type	Cast the Expert
Cast the Expert / int_5e0f78d3	comment	One episode of Murder Most Horrid is set in and around a hospital; one of Dawn French's rival surgeons is played by Peter Wingfield, who dropped out of medical school note And has since resumed his medical career to become a full-time actor.
Cast the Expert / int_5e0f78d3	featureApplicability	1.0
Cast the Expert / int_5e0f78d3	featureConfidence	1.0
Murder Most Horrid	hasFeature	Cast the Expert / int_5e0f78d3
Cast the Expert / int_61237923	type	Cast the Expert
Cast the Expert / int_61237923	comment	Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! has "Whoopsie Goldberg," an obvious No Celebrities Were Harmed version of Whoopi Goldberg. She's played by Shon Vaughn, a professional Whoopi Goldberg impersonator.
Cast the Expert / int_61237923	featureApplicability	1.0
Cast the Expert / int_61237923	featureConfidence	1.0
Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!	hasFeature	Cast the Expert / int_61237923
Cast the Expert / int_62cafa4	type	Cast the Expert
Cast the Expert / int_62cafa4	comment	In Fury Road, according to the art book, most of the Rock Riders were played by professional motocross riders rather than film stunt artists, for their specialized talents.
Cast the Expert / int_62cafa4	featureApplicability	1.0
Cast the Expert / int_62cafa4	featureConfidence	1.0
Mad Max: Fury Road	hasFeature	Cast the Expert / int_62cafa4
Cast the Expert / int_67fc421	type	Cast the Expert
Cast the Expert / int_67fc421	comment	Secretariat: Ron Turcotte was played by a jockey named Otto Thorwarth.
Cast the Expert / int_67fc421	featureApplicability	1.0
Cast the Expert / int_67fc421	featureConfidence	1.0
Secretariat	hasFeature	Cast the Expert / int_67fc421
Cast the Expert / int_680a5ac3	type	Cast the Expert
Cast the Expert / int_680a5ac3	comment	Going My Way: The Robert Mitchel Boychoir provided the boys that played the part of the parish choir.
Cast the Expert / int_680a5ac3	featureApplicability	1.0
Cast the Expert / int_680a5ac3	featureConfidence	1.0
Going My Way	hasFeature	Cast the Expert / int_680a5ac3
Cast the Expert / int_691be369	type	Cast the Expert
Cast the Expert / int_691be369	comment	The X-Files: The episode "The Amazing Maleeni" features two stage magicians, both played by actual stage magicians. Likewise, all the circus performers in "Humbug" are played by actual sideshow performers; the guy who pounds a nail into his nose is actually pounding a nail into his nose.
Cast the Expert / int_691be369	featureApplicability	1.0
Cast the Expert / int_691be369	featureConfidence	1.0
The X-Files	hasFeature	Cast the Expert / int_691be369
Cast the Expert / int_6a3fae8	type	Cast the Expert
Cast the Expert / int_6a3fae8	comment	In the short-lived series Toma, the real David Toma is an extra or bit player in each episode. (The more successful series Baretta was also based on David Toma.)
Cast the Expert / int_6a3fae8	featureApplicability	1.0
Cast the Expert / int_6a3fae8	featureConfidence	1.0
Baretta	hasFeature	Cast the Expert / int_6a3fae8
Cast the Expert / int_6b2dbc19	type	Cast the Expert
Cast the Expert / int_6b2dbc19	comment	Billions: Chuck's wise, well-spoken jiu-jitsu trainer is played by John Danaher, who is well-known in the martial arts world as a wise, well-spoken jiu-jitsu trainer.
Cast the Expert / int_6b2dbc19	featureApplicability	1.0
Cast the Expert / int_6b2dbc19	featureConfidence	1.0
Billions	hasFeature	Cast the Expert / int_6b2dbc19
Cast the Expert / int_70814599	type	Cast the Expert
Cast the Expert / int_70814599	comment	Stargate SG-1: The show often had actual members of the military on screen, including two Air Force Chiefs of Staff playing themselves. The reason Sgt. Siler spends most of his appearances being electrocuted, blown up and hurled around is because he's played by the show's stunt coordinator. The show cast actual capoeira practitioners as extras when they needed an exotic martial art for the Jaffa in "The Warrior".
Cast the Expert / int_70814599	featureApplicability	1.0
Cast the Expert / int_70814599	featureConfidence	1.0
Stargate SG-1	hasFeature	Cast the Expert / int_70814599
Cast the Expert / int_7149a731	type	Cast the Expert
Cast the Expert / int_7149a731	comment	Wonder Woman (2017): Many of the Amazon extras are normally martial artists, boxers, equestrians, or track-and-field athletes. Gal Gadot herself is a former Israeli Defense Forces soldier. Ann Wolfe (Artemis), arguably the greatest female boxer of all time, was brought on by Patty Jenkins because of her real-life expertise. In Jenkins' words, "Who else should be one of the greatest warrior Amazons, but the best female boxer in history?"
Cast the Expert / int_7149a731	featureApplicability	1.0
Cast the Expert / int_7149a731	featureConfidence	1.0
Wonder Woman (2017)	hasFeature	Cast the Expert / int_7149a731
Cast the Expert / int_720ad92a	type	Cast the Expert
Cast the Expert / int_720ad92a	comment	District 13 features a founder of Le Parkour as the main protagonist, who specializes in Parkour.
Cast the Expert / int_720ad92a	featureApplicability	1.0
Cast the Expert / int_720ad92a	featureConfidence	1.0
District 13	hasFeature	Cast the Expert / int_720ad92a
Cast the Expert / int_722ce24d	type	Cast the Expert
Cast the Expert / int_722ce24d	comment	The Inbetweeners has Mr. Gilbert, the cynical and world-weary Head of Sixth Form who alternates between Apathetic Teacher and Sadist Teacher depending on how badly the main characters have ticked him off, played by former secondary drama and English teacher Greg Davies. As Davies has made numerous public comments implying-to-outright-stating that teaching was not an enjoyable, fulfilling or rewarding career choice for him, Gilbert's sheer joy in tormenting his students appears to be Davies channeling many long pent-up frustrations.
Cast the Expert / int_722ce24d	featureApplicability	1.0
Cast the Expert / int_722ce24d	featureConfidence	1.0
The Inbetweeners	hasFeature	Cast the Expert / int_722ce24d
Cast the Expert / int_7244899	type	Cast the Expert
Cast the Expert / int_7244899	comment	The Fast and the Furious (2001): Paul Walker auditioned for the role both because he was a car enthusiast wanting to do a car movie, and to fund his love of cars.
Cast the Expert / int_7244899	featureApplicability	1.0
Cast the Expert / int_7244899	featureConfidence	1.0
The Fast and the Furious (2001)	hasFeature	Cast the Expert / int_7244899
Cast the Expert / int_72d0f2b1	type	Cast the Expert
Cast the Expert / int_72d0f2b1	comment	In One-Trick Pony, the members of the Jonah Levin Band are played by real musicians who actually played on the soundtrack album.
Cast the Expert / int_72d0f2b1	featureApplicability	1.0
Cast the Expert / int_72d0f2b1	featureConfidence	1.0
One-Trick Pony	hasFeature	Cast the Expert / int_72d0f2b1
Cast the Expert / int_73d7930f	type	Cast the Expert
Cast the Expert / int_73d7930f	comment	Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "If Wishes Were Horses" featured the appearance of large alien birds called "Gunji jackdaws." These were obviously played by emus. In the background of the shots containing these Gunji jackdaws, there are two Bajoran monks standing in the background watching. These men were the emu trainers; they were kept on stage to be as close as possible to their birds. To that end, they were given makeup and costumes to blend them in as extras.
Cast the Expert / int_73d7930f	featureApplicability	1.0
Cast the Expert / int_73d7930f	featureConfidence	1.0
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine	hasFeature	Cast the Expert / int_73d7930f
Cast the Expert / int_7558ef22	type	Cast the Expert
Cast the Expert / int_7558ef22	comment	The Cars franchise primarily takes place in the American Southwest, and Route 66 in particular. In turn, Pixar cast journalist and historian Michael Wallis — who has written several books about the history of those specific areas of the United States — as the Sheriff of Radiator Springs.
Cast the Expert / int_7558ef22	featureApplicability	1.0
Cast the Expert / int_7558ef22	featureConfidence	1.0
Cars (Franchise)	hasFeature	Cast the Expert / int_7558ef22
Cast the Expert / int_761813a6	type	Cast the Expert
Cast the Expert / int_761813a6	comment	Retired Marine Captain Dale Dye has played a number of soldiers, including Colonel Sink in Band of Brothers, Colonel Wood in The Rough Riders, a Marine officer in Space: Above and Beyond and a Resistance officer in Falling Skies. He also ran the boot camp for the actors in Band of Brothers, Saving Private Ryan, and The Pacific. He also reprised the role of Colonel Sink for Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway.
Cast the Expert / int_761813a6	featureApplicability	1.0
Cast the Expert / int_761813a6	featureConfidence	1.0
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Cast the Expert / int_761813a6
Cast the Expert / int_7647eb8a	type	Cast the Expert
Cast the Expert / int_7647eb8a	comment	Dennis Farina, an ex-cop, plays cops on Crime Story and Law & Order in addition to many film roles. Conversely, his Crime Story co-star John Santucci, who played mobster Pauli Taglia, was a real-life criminal, a jewel thief busted on a few occasions by Farina and his cop boss, Chuck Adamson, who co-created Crime Story.
Cast the Expert / int_7647eb8a	featureApplicability	1.0
Cast the Expert / int_7647eb8a	featureConfidence	1.0
Crime Story	hasFeature	Cast the Expert / int_7647eb8a
Cast the Expert / int_78f6a3f	type	Cast the Expert
Cast the Expert / int_78f6a3f	comment	Close Encounters of the Third Kind: The dialogue between the pilots and the air traffic controllers sound so realistic because Spielberg used the controllers from Los Angeles ARTCC, gave them the scenario, and they played it as if it were real. Also, the synthesizer player is Philip Dodds, one of the lead engineers for ARP Instruments. Dodds was brought in to install the ARP 2500, and when Spielberg saw his expert handling of the equipment, he offered Dodds the role on the spot. The "voice" of the mothership was performed by legendary tubist Jim Self. Spielberg cast him and his performance because the difficulty of playing the tuba added a "human" component to the alien communication.
Cast the Expert / int_78f6a3f	featureApplicability	1.0
Cast the Expert / int_78f6a3f	featureConfidence	1.0
Close Encounters of the Third Kind	hasFeature	Cast the Expert / int_78f6a3f
Cast the Expert / int_794fb07	type	Cast the Expert
Cast the Expert / int_794fb07	comment	In the film Requiem for a Heavyweight the eponymous heavyweight's final boxing match (at the start of the film) is against Cassius Clay, whom you might know better as Muhammad Ali. Ali's not just "the opponent," he actually has some in-character lines. In the end, the heavyweight is forced into a humiliating wrestling match against the real-life professional wrestler Haystacks Calhoun.
Cast the Expert / int_794fb07	featureApplicability	1.0
Cast the Expert / int_794fb07	featureConfidence	1.0
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Cast the Expert / int_79ebfc7d	comment	Nearly all the footballers in A Shot at Glory were real-life players at the time of filming. The staged football matches in the film all appear fairly realistic as a result.
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Cast the Expert / int_7b68167f	comment	Love Lies Bleeding: Katy O'Brian is a bodybuilder like her character Jackie in Love Lies Bleeding.
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Cast the Expert / int_7dee082e	type	Cast the Expert
Cast the Expert / int_7dee082e	comment	Brubaker director Stuart Rosenberg tried to use as many ex-convicts as possible as extras in the film, feeling that they would give an air of realism to the film that might not have been possible otherwise. As part of the crew reached out to halfway houses, parole officers, and employment offices to find suitable former inmates. In addition to former prison inmates, several former prison guards from various jails and prisons also appeared in the movie.
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Cast the Expert / int_7eff6369	type	Cast the Expert
Cast the Expert / int_7eff6369	comment	Damage: Most of the participants in the underground fighting ring were actual professional fighters.
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Cast the Expert / int_82439e64	type	Cast the Expert
Cast the Expert / int_82439e64	comment	The Office: Andy Buckley, who plays former-CFO David Wallace on the US version of the show, is a Real Life stock-broker.
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Cast the Expert / int_832f6cef	type	Cast the Expert
Cast the Expert / int_832f6cef	comment	In The French Connection, Doyle and Russo's supervisor is played by Eddie Egan, on whom Doyle was based. Egan's real-life partner Sonny Grosso (on whom Russo's character was based) played Bill Klein. The mechanic who disassembles the car to find the drugs was played by the mechanic who did that job for the NYPD.
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Cast the Expert / int_836f0cc8	comment	In To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar, the drag queens in the two pageant scenes are actual New York City drag queens. Besides obviously RuPaul, other well-known queens featured were Lady Bunny, Coco Peru, Hedda Lettuce, etc.
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Cast the Expert / int_8395dee1	comment	A number of the rugby players in Invictus are, unsurprisingly, played by real-life rugby players.
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Cast the Expert / int_8624dc9	type	Cast the Expert
Cast the Expert / int_8624dc9	comment	The PBS educational series The Voyage of the Mimi gave the role of crusty Captain Granville to Peter Marston, who was a crusty MIT professor and the actual owner of the boat used in the show. Not to mention likely the first and only nuclear physicist with an Actor's Equity card.
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Cast the Expert / int_86f058b4	comment	Bloodsport cast a lot of real-life martial artists as the tournament contestants. Notably, the Muay Thai fighter in the semifinals is Paulo Tocha, one of the first western Muay Thai experts.
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Cast the Expert / int_88f055ec	comment	Full Metal Jacket, R. Lee Ermey was hired to advise on the film's portrayal of a US Marine Corps instructor but was eventually just given the role. Kubrick was hesitant at first since Ermey's actually a very nice guy... until Ermey made a video of himself chewing out the camera for fifteen minutes without stopping or repeating himself while being pelted with rotten fruit and tennis balls.
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Cast the Expert / int_8a95e28c	comment	Eddie Bunker lived as a criminal and thief many years before becoming a writer. He was later cast as Mr. Blue in Reservoir Dogs.
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Cast the Expert / int_8c6be4eb	comment	Both Scandal and Parks and Recreation utilize Jay Jackson as a newscaster, as he was a news reporter for 20 years. This happens to be true for every role of his.
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Cast the Expert / int_8c85e195	comment	The Chosen: Alaa Safi is a martial artist, gymnast, and stuntman who performs his own stunts as the combat trained revolutionary Simon the Zealot.
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Cast the Expert / int_8d7cfc8f	type	Cast the Expert
Cast the Expert / int_8d7cfc8f	comment	In the children's TV series Brum, Mike Cavanagh played the role of the motoring museum owner. In real life, he wasn't an actor but the actual owner of the museum. He didn't have to do much acting as for the most part he only appeared in the opening and closing of each episode, and in the 2001 revival the footage was cut so he was barely even seen at all.
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Cast the Expert / int_8d7f29ec	comment	Glee: Heather Morris is a professional dancer who toured with Beyonce as a backup dancer. The show brought her in to teach the "Single Ladies" dance to the cast, and they liked her so much that she was given a background role as a silent, nameless cheerleader. She was allowed to ad-lib here and there,note Her famous non-sequiturs ("Did you know dolphins are just gay sharks?") were initially made up on the spot, and the other actors' confused reactions were real which made Brittany a fan-favorite and eventually a series regular.
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Cast the Expert / int_8d81bb26	comment	NCIS: A one-episode agent named Agent Ray was played by the real-life SECNAV, Ray Mabus. Pauley Perrette studied sociology and criminal science before becoming an actress and playing forensic specialist Abby Sciuto. Similarly, David McCallum spent so much time studying for his role as Creepy Mortician "Ducky" Mallard that the producers were tempted to pay him a consultant's fee.
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Cast the Expert / int_8db36f7	comment	RoboCop: The medical team attempting to resuscitate Murphy in RoboCop (1987) were played by a real-life trauma team. They were allowed to improvise their lines, and on the DVD commentary, the writers mention how it turned out better than what they ever could have thought up. One reason it worked so well is that the image of a trauma team working on a dying man in such a calm, emotionless, business-like manner feels incredibly creepy. Most people expect the ER team to act like they do on TV. Casey Wong and his MediaBreak co-host in the first two movies, Jess Perkins, were played by real-life anchors: Wong by the late Mario Machado and Perkins by Leeza Gibson during her tenure on Entertainment Tonight.
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Cast the Expert / int_8dd0bbcc	comment	Count Olaf's plan in the first Series of Unfortunate Events book is based on pretending he's doing this for authenticity.
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Cast the Expert / int_8dfbdff2	comment	Law & Order: Attorney and politician Fred Thompson played the district attorney for several years, though it should be noted that he also had prior acting experience playing the roles of senior government officials, so this would be a cross between this and Typecasting. On one episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Stabler's pregnant wife was involved in an automobile accident and a good portion of the episode involved her being extracted from the wrecked car. The FDNY firefighters who responded were real and, aside from minor variations for drama purposes (such as allowing Benson to go into the car to assist instead of a firefighter or paramedic), did exactly what they would do in a real vehicle extraction.
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Cast the Expert / int_8e569dee	type	Cast the Expert
Cast the Expert / int_8e569dee	comment	Mad Max series: A lot of the extras recruited to play biker gang members for the original were actual local bikers, whom the pocket-change-budget production paid in beer. In Fury Road, according to the art book, most of the Rock Riders were played by professional motocross riders rather than film stunt artists, for their specialized talents.
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Cast the Expert / int_8e969da6	comment	In Meteor, Natalie Wood's character Tatiana speaks in her native Russian sometimes. Wood spoke the language, due to her upbringing in a Russian immigrant family.
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Cast the Expert / int_910d714b	comment	For the character of Dragan in PAYDAY 2, Dragomir MrÅ¡iÄ‡ was brought on as his voice and face model. In his youth, MrÅ¡iÄ‡ actually took part in what would have been the fifth-largest bank robbery (in terms of the amount of currency stolen) in history, though unlike his character, he was arrested for it and reformed while in prison.
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Cast the Expert / int_93985d2b	comment	In Plan 9 from Outer Space, the only remotely convincing performance was the minister who gives the eulogy for the policeman-turned-zombie (played by Tor Johnson). The minister was played by a minister Ed Wood knew.
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Cast the Expert / int_9535dfe4	type	Cast the Expert
Cast the Expert / int_9535dfe4	comment	In Grosse Pointe Blank Benny the Jet, a legendary kickboxer as well as John Cusack's personal trainer, has a role as an assassin who fights Cusack's character.
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Cast the Expert / int_96c948da	type	Cast the Expert
Cast the Expert / int_96c948da	comment	Almost Angels: The Vienna Boys Choir provided many of the boys that played Vienna choirboys in the movie, though the lead parts were played by child actors with their singing voices dubbed.
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Almost Angels	hasFeature	Cast the Expert / int_96c948da
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Cast the Expert / int_976efc02	comment	Mystery Science Theater 3000 speculated about this in the episode Skydivers, supplying the page quote.
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Cast the Expert / int_97882232	comment	Rush (2013), in an effort to be as authentic as possible, the producers scoured the globe for actual Formula 1 cars in use at the time. These cars were almost always driven in the film by their present owners — most of whom actually race their cars in historic competitions. They also managed to convince one of the drivers that competed in the actual 1976 season to participate in the film's production — fittingly, said driver is James Hunt's actual 1976 teammate at McLaren, Jochen Mass, who also portrayed himself in the film.
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Cast the Expert / int_99055407	type	Cast the Expert
Cast the Expert / int_99055407	comment	Family Matters: In "A Ham Is Born", Carl Winslow moonlights as a security guard at a movie studio where a police drama is being filmed. The movie director is annoyed at Carl's opinion of a film scene until Carl mentions his 20-year experience as a Chicago police officer. After Carl demonstrates the actual procedure for arresting criminals, the impressed director decides to cast Carl Winslow as the new leading protagonist of the film. Ultimately, Carl quits his career as a film star because he, as a married man, refuses to kiss the leading actress, even if it was only part of the movie storyline.
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Family Matters	hasFeature	Cast the Expert / int_99055407
Cast the Expert / int_99191c20	type	Cast the Expert
Cast the Expert / int_99191c20	comment	In Downtown they hired the Hard-Drinking Party Girl they interviewed (as shown in the TitMouse Studios promo DVD for MTV's Downtown) for Very Loosely Based on a True Story ideas to be the voice actress for the character of Alex's sister Chaka.
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Cast the Expert / int_99709ae6	type	Cast the Expert
Cast the Expert / int_99709ae6	comment	Motherland: Fort Salem: Raelle sings and plays the guitar in a Season 2 episode. Taylor Hickson, her actress, has been singing and playing the guitar since childhood, being a professional musician along with her acting career.
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Motherland: Fort Salem	hasFeature	Cast the Expert / int_99709ae6
Cast the Expert / int_9a9f2d21	type	Cast the Expert
Cast the Expert / int_9a9f2d21	comment	Elite gymnast Nastia Liukin, the US national champion on uneven bars who would go on to win Olympic gold two years later, had a small role in Stick It, performing her bar routine to win the national title on that event in the (rigged) final meet. In addition, antagonist Tricia Skilken was played by Tarah Paige, a former elite gymnast, and Mina Hoyt, Haley's teammate, was played by Division 1 NCAA gymnast Maddy Curley. And the non-main character gymnasts who compete in the Classic and at Nationals are virtually all competitive gymnasts, including many notable NCAA gymnasts and Olympians Allana Slater and Mohini Bhardwaj.
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Stick It	hasFeature	Cast the Expert / int_9a9f2d21
Cast the Expert / int_9b1333a5	type	Cast the Expert
Cast the Expert / int_9b1333a5	comment	Top Gun had real-life fighter pilots (wearing darkened visors) as enemy MiG pilots.
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Top Gun	hasFeature	Cast the Expert / int_9b1333a5
Cast the Expert / int_9b555d97	type	Cast the Expert
Cast the Expert / int_9b555d97	comment	In Here Comes the Boom, both the Mentor Archetype Niko and the Final Boss Ken Dietrich are played by actual mixed martial artists. UFC commentators and staff members also appear playing themselves.
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Cast the Expert / int_9c754612	type	Cast the Expert
Cast the Expert / int_9c754612	comment	Spider-Man: Spidey's wrestling opponent Bonesaw in Spider-Man is, of course, played by real-life pro-wrestler Macho Man Randy Savage. This trope was a huge reason why Tom Holland was cast to play the hero in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Whereas Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield are actors first and foremost, Holland is a trained dancer and gymnast and only became an actor after being scouted for Billy Elliot at a dance competition when he was ten. As Spider-Man, he performed as many of his own stunts as the studio would allow.
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Cast the Expert / int_9f78fda3	type	Cast the Expert
Cast the Expert / int_9f78fda3	comment	In a Murder, She Wrote episode, when the town is putting on a play about an infamous trial, they cast a real judge as the judge in the play.
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Cast the Expert / int_9fd4e88b	comment	The film Red Rocket is about a washed up former porn star who returns to his Texas hometown. He is played by actor Simon Rex, who did have a brief stint in porn note namely solo masturbation scenes under the alias "Sebastian" before his acting career.
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Cast the Expert / int_a17bbe03	comment	In The Last Airbender, Noah Ringer, who played Aang, was cast for his martial arts ability (he has a black belt in Taekwondo), and had never acted before. He had to attend acting classes before shooting began.
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Cast the Expert / int_a346e791	comment	A few episodes of NUMB3RS have Bill Nye play a scientist.
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Cast the Expert / int_a364ebbc	comment	The Colin McRae Rally series had both the man himself and his teammates Nicky Grist and Derek Ringer in a dual role as technical advisors and voice actors.
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Cast the Expert / int_a562726f	comment	The BBC miniseries version of The Choir casts St Paul's Cathedral chorister Anthony Way as a chorister for the fictitious Aldminster Cathedral Choir.
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Cast the Expert / int_a685790b	type	Cast the Expert
Cast the Expert / int_a685790b	comment	The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra — a parody of 1950s B Movies — references this in a roundabout fashion. The various Real Life actors were given backstories for their characters — not just the characters in the film, but also for the fictional actors portraying them, to make everyone's flavor of Bad "Bad Acting" very distinct. So Dan Conroy was cast as Ranger Brad and played the character as though he were an actual park ranger who got talked into playing a role in the movie because he had his own costume.
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Cast the Expert / int_a705c715	type	Cast the Expert
Cast the Expert / int_a705c715	comment	Dennis "the pancakes kid" in Cabin Fever was cast primarily because his audition tape was a martial arts demonstration that impressed the casting department enough to bring him in. This is why he does a number of moves including a vertical cyclone kick before biting Bert's hand.
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Cast the Expert / int_a725fd30	type	Cast the Expert
Cast the Expert / int_a725fd30	comment	In For Your Eyes Only, figure skater Lynn-Holly Johnson plays an aspiring Olympic figure skater with a crush on Bond.
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Cast the Expert / int_a979dd4a	comment	Skippy the Bush Kangaroo: In one of the episodes, a movie director decides to cast Heroic Pet Skippy as a Heroic Pet, which results in Skippy saving an actor for real when something goes wrong.
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Cast the Expert / int_aac640fe	type	Cast the Expert
Cast the Expert / int_aac640fe	comment	Sink the Bismarck! features Esmond Knight, a former gunnery officer aboard HMS Prince of Wales playing the ship's captain. Knight had actually been on duty during the battle against the Bismarck, and was one of the men severely wounded when the ship's bridge was hit.
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Cast the Expert / int_aafa5498	comment	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: Dean R. Brooks, the real-life superintendent of the Oregon State Hospital, was cast as Dr. Spivey.
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Cast the Expert / int_ab58e0c2	comment	Mortal Kombat: Conquest had Siro and Shang Tsung portrayed by real-life martial artists, Daniel Bernhardt and Bruce Locke respectively.
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Cast the Expert / int_ad7edd1f	comment	In Kaamelott, Christian Bujeau, who plays King Arthur's weaponmaster, is an actual expert in medieval fencing.
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Cast the Expert / int_ae454c45	type	Cast the Expert
Cast the Expert / int_ae454c45	comment	Beverly Hills Cop: The role of Detroit police inspector Douglas Todd was played by Real Life Detroit police detective Gilbert Hill.
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Cast the Expert / int_aeaddadb	comment	Major productions of On the Town usually cast a professional ballet dancer as Ivy Smith, since her dances are so technical and complicated — for example, the Broadway revival cast Megan Fairchild, a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet.
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Cast the Expert / int_b0c66bf6	comment	In Black Swan, the man playing Natalie Portman's dance partner was her Real Life dance instructor for the film, although he doesn't have many lines. He is also her husband and father of her child.
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Cast the Expert / int_b30ae4db	comment	Game of Thrones: Most of the prostitutes throughout the series are played by porn actresses, since they're well-versed in having sex on camera and obviously didn't have a problem with the show's notorious excessive nudity. EsmÃ© Bianco, who played Ros, one of the few prostitutes given characterization, is a burlesque performer. World's Strongest Man Gregor Clegane was played (in his third iteration) by HafÃ¾Ã³r JÃºlÃus BjÃ¶rnsson, the top contender for the real-life strongest man in the world. HafÃ¾Ã³r was also a former professional basketball player before a career-ending injury lead to him taking up powerlifting, meaning he had the perfect combination of being outlandishly tall and strong. Before HafÃ¾Ã³r took the role, Clegane was played by Conan Stevens, who before becoming an actor was a professional wrestler. In "The Lion and the Rose" Icelandic band Sigur RÃ³s make a brief cameo as minstrels performing a cover of the groom's family anthem and reprise it for the credits. Professional singers Gary Lightbody (of Snow Patrol) and Ed Sheeran both had cameo roles that involved singing.
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Cast the Expert / int_b31b332f	type	Cast the Expert
Cast the Expert / int_b31b332f	comment	Many of the military extras in the Transformers Film Series series are actual military. In several cases, they didn't even have a script beyond Michael Bay telling them to say and do what they would do in the situation.
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Cast the Expert / int_b337209f	type	Cast the Expert
Cast the Expert / int_b337209f	comment	Umamusume: Junko Hosoe, a real life race commentator, comments on horsegirl races as herself. In one episode, she is joined by Yutaka Take, the famous jockey who rode many of the horses turned into girls by this anime.
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Cast the Expert / int_b3788a5d	type	Cast the Expert
Cast the Expert / int_b3788a5d	comment	2001: A Space Odyssey: The voice from mission control is played by Frank Miller, who was a Real Life air traffic controller. When the two astronauts are interviewed by the BBC, the interviewer is Kenneth Kendall, a BBC newsreader.
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Cast the Expert / int_b51aff04	type	Cast the Expert
Cast the Expert / int_b51aff04	comment	In Million Dollar Baby, Maggie's opponent in her final match was played by Lucia Rijker, a champion boxer in Real Life.
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Cast the Expert / int_b5761a43	type	Cast the Expert
Cast the Expert / int_b5761a43	comment	During the gymnastics practice scene in Final Destination 5, Canadian Olympian Brittany Rogers plays the gymnast on the balance beam when Candace is on uneven bars. Ellen Wroe, who plays Candace, is also a real gymnast.
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Cast the Expert / int_b5a64196	type	Cast the Expert
Cast the Expert / int_b5a64196	comment	It Happened Here, an Alternate History film about a Nazi-occupied Britain, cast British fascists as local collaborators. Unfortunately, this backfired and led to one of the scenes involved being cut by UK censors, for having actual fascists expounding their ideology.
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Cast the Expert / int_b712435c	type	Cast the Expert
Cast the Expert / int_b712435c	comment	In the Leverage episode The Two Live Crew Job, rival thief Apollo is played by former pickpocket and series consultant Apollo Robbins.
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Cast the Expert / int_b885f5bf	type	Cast the Expert
Cast the Expert / int_b885f5bf	comment	In Searching for Bobby Fischer, the rival chess prodigy in the chess tournament is played by an actual chess prodigy since "it was easier to teach a chess player how to act than it was to teach a child actor how to comfortably play speed-chess".
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Cast the Expert / int_b8a652cb	comment	In Little Miss Sunshine, all of the pageant contestants and mothers except for Olive and Sheryl were played by actual kiddie-pageant veterans. The costumes and makeup were the same as they wore to actual pageants.
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Cast the Expert / int_b9522333	type	Cast the Expert
Cast the Expert / int_b9522333	comment	Mr Selfridge cast Natalia Kremen, a former artist with the Bolshoi Ballet and English National Ballet, as famed ballerina Anna Pavlova.
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Cast the Expert / int_b9e9ea58	type	Cast the Expert
Cast the Expert / int_b9e9ea58	comment	In Frank, the band's drummer Nana is played by Carla Azar, who is actually a drummer, best known as a member of the indie rock band Autolux. Nana is Azar's only film role to date.
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Cast the Expert / int_baa2a21d	type	Cast the Expert
Cast the Expert / int_baa2a21d	comment	The director of Sully spoke with actual pilots and pilot instructors to understand how midair crises play out. A few of the pilots and instructors later got cameos in the film.
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Cast the Expert / int_baaac49c	type	Cast the Expert
Cast the Expert / int_baaac49c	comment	Michael Mann's 1981 film Thief has an interesting subversion of this trope. Chicago police detective Dennis Farina made his film debut playing... a hired goon. Real-life jewel thief John Santucci was cast as a police sergeant. The industrial tools used in the film were provided by actual thieves, lending a level of realism uncommon in the heist genre.
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Cast the Expert / int_bacb3abc	comment	Many of the SEAL team members in The Rock were played by the (retired) SEALs who also advised on the film.
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Cast the Expert / int_bc3e398b	type	Cast the Expert
Cast the Expert / int_bc3e398b	comment	"The Tower Is Tall but the Fall Is Short", an episode of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, features a fight scene between Cameron and another female Terminator in which Cameron literally ties her adversary in a knot before killing her. The Terminator was played by Bonnie Morgan, a professional contortionist who could actually undergo that without special effects and survive.
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Cast the Expert / int_bc8b07	type	Cast the Expert
Cast the Expert / int_bc8b07	comment	When Epic Rap Battles of History did "Bruce Banner vs Bruce Jenner", both characters after their transformations are played by someone appropriate: The Hulk is professional bodybuilder Mike O'Hearn, and Caitlyn Jenner is transgender rapper No Shame. The pre-transformation Bruces are played by series creators Epic Lloyd and Nice Peter, but having Lloyd put on a green muscle suit would have looked a little too ridiculous, and Peter dressing in drag to play a trans woman may have been seen as offensive.
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Cast the Expert / int_bfd23f28	type	Cast the Expert
Cast the Expert / int_bfd23f28	comment	Masters of the Universe: Anthony De Longis is a skilled swordsman, so he was cast as the swordsman Blade. He was also Frank Langella's stunt double for the scenes where Skeletor fights.
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Cast the Expert / int_c0b9fa2a	comment	Death Proof introduces stuntwoman ZoÃ« Bell, As Herself.
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Cast the Expert / int_c42e43e	comment	Some of the extras in Invasion: Earth in the scenes involving weapons were actually service personnel from RAF Leuchars, which served as the show's set for the air base.
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Cast the Expert / int_c8a7a335	comment	The film Act of Valor takes this to the extreme. Nearly every credited actor is enlisted in the United States military, many of them actual Navy SEALs.
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Cast the Expert / int_c94b0000	type	Cast the Expert
Cast the Expert / int_c94b0000	comment	NYPD Blue consultant and former New York detective Bill Clark was seen a few times as a cop.
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Cast the Expert / int_cac1f772	type	Cast the Expert
Cast the Expert / int_cac1f772	comment	On CSI, assistant coroner David "Superdave" Phillips is played by David Berman, who worked as a coroner for a time in real life. Berman is also a consultant on the series.
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Cast the Expert / int_cac20f89	type	Cast the Expert
Cast the Expert / int_cac20f89	comment	JAG: Retired Marine Corps Master Sergeant Matt Sigloch, originally hired for a small part in the Pilot Movie, became the on-set military technical advisor for all the 227 episodes. Admiral Chegwiddenâ€™s replacement as Judge Advocate General in the final 10th season, General Cresswell, is played by actor David Andrews, who is a graduate of Stanford Law School and was a practicing attorney before becoming an actor.
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Cast the Expert / int_cce5a834	type	Cast the Expert
Cast the Expert / int_cce5a834	comment	Mortal Kombat: The Movie cast Robin Shou, Linden Ashby and Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa as Liu Kang, Johnny Cage and Shang Tsung respectively. These three actors were real life martial artists.
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Cast the Expert / int_cf908d04	type	Cast the Expert
Cast the Expert / int_cf908d04	comment	John from Cincinnati: A TV show set in the surfing community. Keala Kennelly, who plays Kai, is a well-known professional surfer who set the record for riding the largest tow-in wave by a woman. Greyson Fletcher, who plays Shaun Yost, is a fourth-generation surfer whose drug-addicted father revolutionized the sport in the 80s with "aerial"-type tricks and whose grandfather was a defining legend of the previous-generation surf community. Greyson's character Shaun is a third-generation surfer whose drug-addicted father revolutionized the sport in the 80s with "aerial"-type tricks and whose grandfather was a defining legend of the previous-generation surf community.
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Cast the Expert / int_d161a35	type	Cast the Expert
Cast the Expert / int_d161a35	comment	Yacht Rock features real-life Allmusic music critic Steve Huey in the role of Hollywood Steve, the series' host and historian of the yacht rock scene.
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Cast the Expert / int_d3381e70	type	Cast the Expert
Cast the Expert / int_d3381e70	comment	Captain America: The Winter Soldier cast UFC welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre as the martial artist mercenary Batroc.
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Captain America: The Winter Soldier	hasFeature	Cast the Expert / int_d3381e70
Cast the Expert / int_d40ba0ad	type	Cast the Expert
Cast the Expert / int_d40ba0ad	comment	A few of the players on both teams in the 2005 remake of The Longest Yard are actual retired NFL players, such as Michael Irvin as a wide receiver for the inmates' team and Bill Romanowski as a linebacker for the guards' team.
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Cast the Expert / int_d461f757	type	Cast the Expert
Cast the Expert / int_d461f757	comment	In an episode of Battlestar Galactica that called for a musician in a major part, they came close to casting the series composer Bear McCreary. They went with someone else after the audition, but it came very close to fulfilling this trope. Bear had a cameo later on as a piano player in the background.
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Cast the Expert / int_d54a63c9	type	Cast the Expert
Cast the Expert / int_d54a63c9	comment	Richard Todd, who played Major John Howard in The Longest Day, was a paratrooper and veteran of the actual D-Day landings; he was present at the actual landings at Pegasus Bridge depicted in the film. Todd also appears as a character (played by an uncredited actor), exchanging a joke with Major Howard (Todd's real-life commanding officer) about how "paras are always late."
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Cast the Expert / int_dac2531c	type	Cast the Expert
Cast the Expert / int_dac2531c	comment	Baywatch was full of pretty actors pretending to be lifeguards... save for one man, Michael Newman, the only one to actually look like a lifeguard and perform complicated stunts (notably, he's one of the few regularly shown swimming worth a damn). An actual lifeguard with 20 years of experience who'd saved dozens of lives, Newman played a fictionalized version of himself. He also served as a technical consultant for the show and many of the saves on the show are recreations of saves Newman himself participated in. And then Alexandra Paul (Stephanie Holden) is not a lifeguard but she is an accomplished professional triathlete.
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Baywatch	hasFeature	Cast the Expert / int_dac2531c
Cast the Expert / int_dbf05cf0	type	Cast the Expert
Cast the Expert / int_dbf05cf0	comment	Doctor... Series: An uncredited taxi driver in Doctor in the House (1954) is played by Fred Griffiths, who was a taxi driver in real life before becoming an actor. Doctor in Clover has Godfrey, a TV commentator played by real-life TV host Norman Vaughan.
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Doctor... Series	hasFeature	Cast the Expert / int_dbf05cf0
Cast the Expert / int_dbf18509	type	Cast the Expert
Cast the Expert / int_dbf18509	comment	Jeopardy!: After the death of Alex Trebek in 2020, the show brought on Ken Jennings as one of the new hosts. Jennings also happens to be one of the best Jeopardy players of all time, with a 74-game winning streak from his original 2004 run that still stands as the longest ever and multiple tournament wins under his belt. He'd earlier been hired as a consulting producer for the show. One of the interim hosts while the show was still making its decision was Buzzy Cohen, the winner of the 2019 Tournament of Champions.
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Cast the Expert / int_dd44a111	type	Cast the Expert
Cast the Expert / int_dd44a111	comment	Several of the soldiers in the finale of Rockabilly Zombie Weekend were played by active-duty soldiers who had worked checkpoints in the Middle East; they manned the airport checkpoint in the film and were told to simply do everything as they would do in reality. The protagonists in the truck were given a minimum of coaching for the scene and simply responded to the questions in character.
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Cast the Expert / int_df07d96e	type	Cast the Expert
Cast the Expert / int_df07d96e	comment	The villainous magician in the Lois & Clark episode "Illusions of Grandeur" is played by Penn Jillette, of Penn & Teller.
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Cast the Expert / int_e293455a	comment	In the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode "Once More with Feeling", Hinton Battle (Broadway performer and choreographer) was cast as the dancing demon Sweet.
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Cast the Expert / int_e41a0753	comment	Former SAS member Chris Ryan co-created military drama Ultimate Force and also appeared in it as the leader of Blue Troop.
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Cast the Expert / int_e4732abc	type	Cast the Expert
Cast the Expert / int_e4732abc	comment	He also does this in an episode of Stargate Atlantis, playing a key part in saving the day.
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Cast the Expert / int_e63a01cc	comment	The medical technicians who test Regan are also real medical technicians. Eerily, one of them was later convicted of murder - and was implicated in, although never charged with, the serial killings that inspired a later William Friedkin film, Cruising.
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Cast the Expert / int_e6b8dcc3	type	Cast the Expert
Cast the Expert / int_e6b8dcc3	comment	Ronin (1998) featured world-class figure skater Katarina Witt as a Captain Ersatz of herself — the championship count given for her character in the film is her actual championship total.
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Cast the Expert / int_e795ecba	type	Cast the Expert
Cast the Expert / int_e795ecba	comment	In Palm Springs, the professor who discusses quantum physics with Sarah is played by the film's scientific advisor, theoretical physicist Clifford Johnson.
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Cast the Expert / int_e8af156	type	Cast the Expert
Cast the Expert / int_e8af156	comment	Subverted with Jennifer's Body. For the part of Nikolai Wolf, the frontman of the Satanic emo band Low Shoulder, the producers wanted to cast an actual rock star, with Pete Wentz of Fall Out Boy and Joel Madden of Good Charlotte being the favorites. Ultimately, however, Adam Brody was cast instead, with Low Shoulder's song "Through the Trees" written and performed by the indie band Wildling, who also played some of the other members of the band.
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Cast the Expert / int_eb5d7301	comment	For the Amphibia episode Temple Frogs, Lhakkana Nhaksiri (Polly's Thai dub VA and the show's Thai dub translator) was brought in to guide Amanda Leighton on how to pronounce the Thai lines Polly fluently speaks in the episode which were also the lines Nhaksiri wrote for the episode. She also appeared in the episode as the Thai language teacher that Polly went into. More info here.
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Cast the Expert / int_ec00290d	type	Cast the Expert
Cast the Expert / int_ec00290d	comment	The Killing: The thug Maurice, whose job during the heist is to brawl with the police as a distraction, is played by Kola Kwariani, a professional wrestler.
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Cast the Expert / int_edb68237	comment	Several accidental cases in The Great Escape. Donald Pleasence had spent time in a German POW camp during WWII. When he tried to offer director John Sturges advice based on his experience Sturges told him to keep his "opinions" to himself. Once someone explained Pleasance's background to him Sturges quickly started asking Pleasance for technical advice. James Garner had been his unit's scrounger while serving in the Army during the Korean War. Charles Bronson, who plays the Tunnel King of the crew, had worked as a coal miner in his youth and was able to advise Sturges on earth movement.
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Cast the Expert / int_eddcc845	comment	Technical consultant and former Marine captain Dale Dye has appeared in many of the war films he's worked on, beginning with Platoon.
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Cast the Expert / int_eeac804a	type	Cast the Expert
Cast the Expert / int_eeac804a	comment	In most of the large-scale incidents on Emergency! where units other than Engine/Squad 51 appear, the other firefighters are actually firefighters. Similarly, Engine 51's driver Mike Stoker was played by Los Angeles County firefighter Mike Stoker, the captain in the first season was an LACoFD captain, and the uncredited dispatcher was really a county dispatcher.
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Cast the Expert / int_ef9cb86a	comment	Professional singers Gary Lightbody (of Snow Patrol) and Ed Sheeran both had cameo roles that involved singing.
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Cast the Expert / int_f1da64b5	comment	The Lord of the Rings: For the scene in the caverns of Isengard when Saruman's orcs are makes the arms and armor for his Uruk-hai army, the filmmakers recruited real blacksmiths, dressed up in orc makeup and costume, instead of extras or stuntmen. In addition to the lead actors who were trained on horses, and numerous digital extras, for Rohan the production hired hundreds of horses from all across New Zealand, and then needed extras to put on them. Where do you find that many extras who can ride? Well, the horses' owners were nearby. Most of them were women, leading to a lot of Rohirrim with fake whiskers. The New Zealand Army provided extras for the final battle in front of the Black Gate. This was made necessary because the Black Gate scenes were filmed on an abandoned minefield. Behind the scenes commentary on the DVD makes note of how good these extras were at following directions and setting up formations, and how much enthusiasm they brought to the combat scenes. This led to a notable Throw It In! moment, after some of the Maori stuntmen started chanting a haka to get the extras pumped up, and Peter Jackson got the idea to have the orcs do a war chant. An accidental case also cropped up. When they were blocking out Saruman's death scene - when Grima stabs him in the back - Christopher Lee interrupted Peter Jackson's stage directions, pointing out that Lee, unlike Jackson, has actually heard the the sound a man makes when he's stabbed in the back. Jackson hadn't realized that Lee served in the Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (yes, it was actually called that) during WWII and probably did some things best left classified.
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Cast the Expert / int_f22e6bb4	comment	Black Hawk Down: In wide shots, those were actual Army Rangers fast-roping from UH-60s. The MH-6 Littlebird pilot who goes to the first crash site is the same pilot who did it in real life.
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Cast the Expert / int_f361b493	comment	I Love Lucy did this at least twice: In "Job Switching" (aka the famous candy factory episode), the candy-dipper that Lucy gets into a chocolate fight with was played by real-life candymaker Amanda Milligan. (When she was cast, she told the producers that she had actually never seen the show; on Monday nights, when I Love Lucy aired, she always watched wrestling.) In "Visitor From Italy", the pizza chef in the restaurant where Lucy works was played by chef and restaurant owner Aldo Formica, who also taught Lucille Ball to twirl pizza dough so she could do it in the episode. Nineteen years later, he played a similar role in an episode of Maude.
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Cast the Expert / int_f401cf02	comment	Blood of the Tribades has a scene in which the character Acheron is tortured by being forced to walk on broken glass: He was played by Scott Dezrah Blinn, a sideshow performer whose act includes walking on broken glass.
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Cast the Expert / int_f43b3a51	comment	Diagnosis: Murder: The episodes "Must Kill TV" and "Trash TV", both about the cut-throat business of TV production, feature a mega-TV producer, Jackson Burley, played by real-life mega-TV producer Stephen J. Cannell.
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Cast the Expert / int_f6c05e8e	comment	James Michael Tyler's role on Friends began as that of a background extra often seen working behind the counter at Central Perk. The fact that he was the only extra who actually knew how to run the coffee machine led to his Ascended Extra status starting in Season 2, with the character of Gunther becoming the face of the coffee shop.
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Cast the Expert / int_f6c977d3	comment	In Say Anything..., Lloyd Dobler's kickboxing opponent, who breaks Lloyd's nose when Lloyd is distracted by Diane's ill-timed declaration of love, was played by real-life kickboxing champion Don "The Dragon" Wilson.
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Cast the Expert / int_f99f6e4d	comment	When the President's limousine is flipped over by a nuclear blast in The Sum of All Fears, he is rescued by a squad of actual Marines. As with a number of the military examples, the Marines were simply given the situation and asked to respond as they would in Real Life.
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Cast the Expert / int_fb1f271c	comment	Since Lilo & Stitch has its human lead Lilo study hula at a hÄ�lau hula (hula school), the role of her kumu hula (hula teacher) Moses Puloki was performed by Kunewa Mook, who is a kumu hula and musician in real life. He and musician Mark KealiÊ»i HoÊ»omalu made sure that the hula performed in the film was authentic. Mook would also reprise his role throughout the franchise.
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Cast the Expert / int_fc8c44a1	comment	All Quiet on the Western Front (1930): While researching accuracy for the film, Lewis Milestone found lots of German World War I veterans living in Los Angeles â€” so he cast them in the film.
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Cast the Expert / int_fd0b8b37	comment	Eddie and the Cruisers 2: Eddie Lives!: Mark Holmes, who played bassist Quinn Quinley, and Paul Markle, playing drummer Charlie Tansey, were members of the Canadian rock band Platinum Blonde.
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Cast the Expert / int_fda9c8b	comment	Similarly, Downton Abbey cast New Zealand soprano Dame Tiri Te Kanawa to play Australian soprano Dame Nellie Melba.
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Cast the Expert / int_fff9fda5	comment	Miami Connection: The film was made by a tae kwon do instructor, and almost the entire cast is composed of his students performing the fight scenes. The actor playing the lead singer of the protagonists' band Dragon Sound was a professional musician who composed and performed all the film's songs. Unlike the rest of the cast, he had no martial arts background, so his character does not get into any fights.
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