Get on a BET show. The new series “Average Joe” is now filming in the Atlanta, GA area.
BET’s “Average Joe” is filming season one and the shows extras casting directors have a casting call out to fill various small roles in the project. All roles are paid and the show will be filming all the way into the first quarter of 2023.
BET’s new dark comedy “Average Joe” now filming in the Atlanta area and they are currently looking to cast paid extras to work on set.
While the new show is filming in the Atlanta area, the actual series is set in Pittsburgh, more specifically, “Average Joe” is set in the The Hill district of Pittsburgh. The show stars Deon Cole of Black-ish who takes the lead role as a plumber who is the average Joe. The show comes from Robb Cullen and McG, who has been behind many popular shows and movies such as Supernatural.
The show is described as being inspired by Cullen’s own life experiences. The story starts with a plumber, named Joe Washington, played by Cole, discovering that his recently deceased father may have had a few secrets of his own and was not as poor as he once seemed to be. Seems that dad had another, secret life which included millions of dollars that he stole from some very dangerous people. Those dangerous people are now looking for his son, who is average Joe, and while Joe knows nothing about his fathers secret life or what happened to all that stolen money, the dangerous people that his father had crossed do not believe him. Joe Washington, AKA, average Joe, is now on their radar as they try to find out what happened to their money and who has it.
Interested? Here is the casting notice:
Hylton Casting is currently casting the following specialty background roles for the TV series Average Joe Season 1 to work in scenes filming on Tuesday, 12/20/22 in Fairburn, GA.
PROJECT:
– Series for BET+
– Set in Pittsburgh, AVERAGE JOE follows blue-collar plumber, Joseph Washington, who discovers his recently deceased father lived a secret, second life as a drug mule and before he died, stole millions of dollars from the Russian mob. Now the Russians would like their money back and they think Joe knows where it is. A bloody and violent confrontation triggers a chain of events that force Joe and his close-knit circle of family and friends out of their very average and mundane lives into a life or death race against time to find the truth and the millions – or die trying.
SPECIALTY BACKGROUND ROLES:
5 RUSSIAN HENCHMEN
– Caucasian or Asian men, ages 20s-50s
– Should have an athletic build, strong physique.
– Will portray the Russian bodyguards of one of the lead actors of the series who is a Russian mobster.
– This role will work in interior hotel scenes.
Please visit the following link for more information and to submit:
