Promised Land, the Gus Van Sant movie starring Matt Damon and John Krasinski, is holding an open casting call for extras on Saturday, April 7.
Joan Philo Casting will be at the Westin Convention Center Hotel, 1000 Penn Ave., Pittsburgh, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday.
They are looking for children 6 to 12 years old, teenagers, adults and senior citizens of all ethnicities to play the locals of a town, populate a big town hall meeting, portray waitresses and restaurant patrons, play baseball, and fill other fictional shoes.
If you plan to attend the open casting call, bring a recent color photograph.
In Promised Land, Damon will play a sales executive who arrives in a small town only to have his whole life called into question. Krasinski will co-star as a rival executive, along with Frances McDormand who plays Damon’s sales partner, Rosemarie DeWitt will appear as a school teacher, and Hal Holbrook will play an engineer who opposes a corporate takeover being led by Damon’s character.
According a recent story in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, one confirmed location for the movie is the West Mifflin Middle School on Camp Hollow Road in West Mifflin, PA. They will shoot several scenes at the vacant school at some point during filming which is set to begin at the end of April and last through June.
