Photography coverage by Amie Hana Photography for NBC5.com
NBC’s new series, The Playboy Club, depicts the lives of the women who worked as its bunnies in the 60s, surrounded by the men who run the club, its ogling clientele, and the Mafia.
Several hundred people braved a rainy Saturday afternoon at the Academy for the Arts to attend an extras casting call for "The Playboy Club." The new NBC show will be shooting episodes in Chicago through December, and is looking for people in the background for scenarios like club and street scenes.
The actors -- anyone 18-80 and of all ethnicity -- were asked to come to the audition wearing early 1960s-inspired clothing and hair. They were photographed, interviewed, added to a database and may get called in for a gig that pays $75 a day.
On the surface, viewers will see the scantily clad women and the handsome men who seem to rule their world, but the show’s executive producers and cast argue that the show is mostly about the female characters and their empowerment.
“This show is all about empowering these women to be whatever they want to be,” executive producer Chad Hodge tells a room of reporters at the Television Critics Association (TCA) Press Tour.
And in fact, the women and their empowerment was the biggest topic of conversation during the TCA session. It seemed that the network expected that. As part of its panel introduction, it named former playboy bunnies who have gone on to successful careers, including media maven Barbara Walters, model Lauren Hutton, and punk rocker Deborah Harry, as well as federal judge, Kimba Wood, and world-renown immunologist Patty Matzinger.
“There are many women who went on to do things, have careers, become entrepreneurs,” star, Amber Heard, says. “There are women who have talked to us about their experience. I have yet to meet an ex-bunny who is disgruntled about her experience. I have talked to many women who look back fondly and are thankful for that experience.”
The audition staffs
The casting
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