In movies or on TV there frequently are restaurant scenes. While the camera focuses on the two stars eating, one can see other diners chatting. Are these other actors instructed to talk about anything they want to talk about or are their conversations scripted? Anyone Board members been in such a scene?
I know what you mean, oli. Sometimes I'm more interested in the background people than I am in the main characters. In the 1980s my sister was selected to be in the background of a scene in the movie, That Championship Season. It took place in Scranton. She was supposed to be shopping in a mall (which was closed for the day for filming) with two girls while Bruce Dern, Paul sorvino and Martin Sheen were buying a tv. She was given a shopping bag and was told to hold it so that the word Toshiba was visible to the camera.
