Tourist wins big with movie role in Vegas
21 April 2008A British tourist won more than he could have hoped for on a recent trip to Las Vegas when he bluffed his way onto a movie set.
Carl Kelly, a 29-year-old salesman from Knebworth, Hertfordshire, decided to see how luck was treating him during his holiday in the gambling capital of the world by attempting to get onto the set of the Iron Man film.
After convincing security guards that he was an extra in the movie, Mr Kelly spent hours sitting in the background while a casino scene was being recorded.
The impostor was thrown into the limelight, however, when he was asked if he could appear in a short scene with one of the stars of the film, Gwyneth Paltrow, with disastrous results.
"Some 38 takes later, I think they were getting pretty fed up with me," Mr Kelly said.
He was unrepentant about his effect on the shoot, however, adding: "That's what happens when you let an untrained nobody into your film."
The tourist's 'work' on the film took so long that he missed his plane home, but it is highly unlikely that his travel insurance policy covered missed flights as a result of impromptu film appearances.
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