Bailey Lake Elementary fourth-grade student Cameron Brosky was enjoying horse camp at Black River Farm and Ranch when she was asked to be an extra in a movie.
“They were looking for actual BR girls,” Brosky said. “They asked me and I said ‘sure.?”
The movie is Horse Camp and about a young girl spending her summer at horse camp. Brosky was an extra in three scenes.
“It was really fun because I got to be right next to the stars,” she smiled. “I tried so hard to get my face in everything.”
She explained before the shoot they lined everyone up and the first group of the line had to sit in the back.
“I hid behind the trash can so I could be in the front,” she admitted with a smile. “It was pretty easy.”
In the scene, all of the girls are sitting around the camp fire when the camp princess is announced. Brosky and her co-actors had to react to the announcement.
“We had to make a lot of sad faces and cheery faces,” she said. “I didn’t get any speaking parts but because I was next to the star, I got to show big emotions.”
The other scenes Brosky can be seen in include a horse riding competition where she is in a group of girls watching the main characters fight over the title of camp princess. The other scene is when everyone is eating in the mess hall.
She admitted the experience was cool and frustrating because the sound person kept telling them to be quiet.
Because Brosky was in the movie, she was also put on the imdb.com – Internet Movie Database, which is an online resume for people in the film industry.
“It is actually exciting,” she smiled. “I show a lot of people my page.”
Brosky received a phone call to be in Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice, now filming in movie.
“They said I would have to cut my hair and I said no,” she said. “My mom didn’t tell me how much money I would get paid.
“I said no for a reason. Then, I had a reason to do it,” she added.
If asked to do it again she would definitely say ‘yes.?
Before Horse Camp, Brosky’s experience with acting was with her friends as they had fun play acting. Now she practices a little bit more.
“I like to act out a lot of stuff as recess,” she admitted, adding in one instance everybody believed the acting was real. “I am still working on real tears.”
She also watches behind-the-scenes on movies. Her friend and her watched Despicable Me 2 then watched behind the scenes with the actors lending their voices to the cartoon characters.
“We acted out a lot of it,” Brosky said.
Her parents, Chris and Stephanie, and Cameron also notice more of the cameras in reality shows like Survivor and America’s Got Talent.
She even pointed out she has noticed the camera cuts to the judges on America’s Got Talent during particular moments during acts. (You will have ask her.)
Cameron’s goal is to say a few lines in a movie and is open to the possibilities especially since the film industry is bringing more projects to Michigan.
Besides horseback riding on her horse Golden Nugget, Cameron stays busy with other sports.
She also participates in cheerleading, gymnastics, swim, soccer, softball and skiing.
“I love skiing,” she said with a smile, adding she will join the Thunderbolt Racing team this year.
“I go skiing with my friends until 9 p.m.,” she said.
Chris pointed out it helps he runs the ski club at Clarkston High School and she gets to stay at Pine Knob Ski Resort.
Horse Camp features Dean Cain, who was Superman in the television series Lois and Clark and written and directed by Joel Paul Reisig, who is a Michigan producer and is making another movie in Michigan called Rodeo Girl.