10 More Terrible Extras Who Completely Ruined Their Scenes

5. Extra Gets Too Big For His Unsatisfied Boots

An Extra is supposed to be inconspicuous and unassuming by his very essence and definition: he must blend in seamlessly, uttering perhaps a few sparse words when given the auspicious opportunity, and never, ever upstaging a main player.

But then sometimes a background artist comes along with ideas above their station, like Layla Sakaralo, who famously improvised her own lines in Star Trek IV and had to be paid more and inducted into the Screen Actor's Guild as a result, and the very worst of these charalatans is a man called Jesse Heiman, who has transcended the usually limiting role of the Extra inhis own special way.

Because he is so terrible at being an Extra - in that he is completely noticable - Heiman has been labelled the World's Greatest Extra, and gets hand-picked for jobs by talents as bright as Michael Bay to loiter around in the background of movie scenes, quite often with his shirt off. This man is not to be cherished - he is a disgrace to his chosen profession, and every time he appears in a movie scene, he ruins it, stealing focus in a way that suggests that Hollywood and TV show producers are far happier to endlessly re-run one stale joke than they are to have their Extras actually blend in.

Nice work if you can get it though. Jesse actually has a comic book equivalent - a pair of hipster cops who appear in numerous comic book storylines, without any explanation. The difference of course, is that these two are MADE UP, and have no aspirations to be actual actors, despite clearly possessing no skill at all.