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AN OPEN CASTING is being held in Dublin next weekend for extras in the BBC television series Ripper Street.
It will take place in The Gresham Hotel next Friday 19 from 9.30 am to 19.30pm and Saturday 20 June from 10.00am to 5.30pm and is open to anyone who wants to attend.
Filming is set to start in July of this year and run until April 2016.
Ripper Street is set in time after the infamous Jack the Ripper murders in London’s East End and follows the activities of the H Division, the police department charged with keeping control over the area.
The programme has so far mostly been shot in Dublin, with the city’s architecture being used to capture the period.
The show had been cancelled after its second series, but was renewed after fans expressed their desire for it to return.
Series one and two of the programme were thought to have brought around €20 million into the Irish economy.
It was announced last month that the programme was set to continue on for a fourth and fifth series, with streaming through the Amazon Prime Instant Video service to thank for the programme’s renewed success.
The day is being organised by MovieExtras.ie, who have supplied extras for a number of other high-profile projects, including Fair City and RTÉ’s Love/ Hate.
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I hope they like Viking beards
Anyone done extra work and know what the usual rate would be for a big name show like this?
I’ve done extra work before! But I tought it was called overtime?
Think it’s about 90 quid a day Bill
I’ve done Ripper Street about 2 years ago and worked as a delivery/rent boy lol. The rate was 90 euro but it was great Craic all the same.
Between Vikings and Jack the Ripper…Ireland’s a great little place really!!! :)
Isn’t Movie Extras the people who make you pay to hear about these jobs normally though?
€70 a day, not €90
“…who have supplied extras for a number of other high-profile projects, including Fair City”. Scraping the barrel there lads
Anyone know if there is a certain age they are looking for and do they require an account with MovieExtras.ie? Thanks
It is going to be jammed in there ha ha
I played mrs milmo in Jimmys hall by Ken Loach,Got on the DVD cover ,Great crack and met some brill people
They could have mentioned in the article that you will have to pay something like 80 euro for this, total waste of my time!!!!
They could mention in the article that you will have to pay for this, total waste of my time!!!
Ripper Street is not a BBC production, the dropped it after season 2. It is now shown on Amazon. Seriously poor journalism.
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