CDAN Podcast Episode 675 - Q & A - Part Two
Added 2020-12-16 03:00:50 +0000 UTCMore questions and answers.
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PS For example; I was hired by a northern GA agency to play Ingrid Bergman at a Casablanca themed Christmas party. The company paying for it had a budget of $20,000 and even recreated the Casablanca bar set. As part of this work, I got to know a team of celebrity impersonators. Some of them were hired to do it “for pretend” entertainment purposes only, but some also doubled as live impersonators for politically connected security firms when the politician or politician’s wife or child was coming to town. The work paid VERY well.
Jennifer Shepherd
2020-12-17 23:34:07 +0000 UTCEnty all major political figures, and many less significant, have one if not multiple body doubles for security reasons. As you know, entertainment figures, too. Britney has had some gorgeous ones. Some were there to throw a false person out there when she would emerge from a show and be dangerously swarmed with people and cars. She’d send her cute double out to wave to the throngs while sneaking out a different exit, hair pulled up, makeup off, different dress, hoodie, etc. For political figures and their families this is a daily requirement. Melanie probably tries to appear at many events, but with the insane psychopathic vitriol her husband and she are dealing with constantly, there are probably more times when a double is used than not. Very pretty ones, too, often not just models but actresses. I used to know some actresses/models who did this back in the day. Often they didn’t have to be particularly pretty. Not much was required to impersonate a Bush sister, for example (oy, those stumpy legs!) I also knew occasional political stand-ins who largely operated by region. Local actors in Atlanta, for example, who made their living doing impersonations sometimes or comedy parody; or they’d be hired to pretend to be that person at private parties (with everybody knowing it wasn’t really them.) But sometimes they simultaneously would be on call to do what was called “crowd work” for when the real person was making an appearance locally. They would be paid to have their pics taken headed into a specific hotel bar or restaurant to make it appear that that politician was staying at the hotel. People should watch Wag the Dog (very funny movie) and I think it’s called Moon Over Parador? With Richard Dreyfus and Raul Julia. Add in a touch of Dave with Kevin Kline and Sigourney Weaver, and it will provide a bigger picture for people. (All of them are funny movies, too!)
Jennifer Shepherd
2020-12-17 22:51:33 +0000 UTC
