Tom Cruise Movie Looking For Background Actors in Ball Ground

A Doug Liman film starring Tom Cruise is looking for paid background actors in Atlanta, Ball Ground and its surrounding areas.

The filming of “Mena” will begin mid-May and last through July, according to the Georgia TV and Film Production Help Wanted Hotline, which is managed by the Georgia Department of Economic Development.

This is a period film set in the U.S. and South America in the 1970s and 1980s, so the casting company is specifically looking for “men and women with non-contemporary looks”:

• People to portray “South American types”
• Military and government types
• Minors aged 1 to 17 years old
• People with cars in good to great condition and were made between 1975 and 1983
• Ball Ground “townspeople” to portray residents aged 18 to 80 years old

Your online submission must include:

• A clear and current photo
• Your first and last name
• The city in which you live
• A current phone number and email address
• Your current sizes (height/weight)
• If submitting with a period car, please include a photo with the make, model and year

Residents are asked to visit Central Casting’s website to send in online submissions. Mena stars Cruise as Barry Seal, a TWA pilot turned drug smuggler for the Medellin cartel.

Seal was later recruited to provide intelligence for the DEA and CIA, and was later killed in 1986, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Ball Ground City Manager Eric Wilmarth previously said the main filming location will be on Gilmer Ferry Road between Civic Drive and Old Canton Road. He also said crews also plan to film in several other locations around the city, as well as other parts of Cherokee County, Pickens County and Roswell.

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