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industry Do film makers/producers consider important that I was an actor in a film with famous cast if I'm a composer now?

Daniele Nasuti

Daniele Nasuti

I’ve kept this secret for almost 15 years because it wasn't about music, but now I’m looking for interesting features, short and docs to score, maybe it could be useful.

Before becoming a film composer I was a stunt double and background actor in an indie film with famous people involved. The producer is one of Ferrari(2023) producers; costume designers also worked for Sarah Jessica Parker; I'm in several scenes with famous italian actors, and one of them collaborated with John Debney and Diane Warren.

We have been together for a month so I could live the film making experience from inside, how it feels and how angry directors could become :D even if I was an actor and not musician (I was stunt double of a musician character anyway :) You can clearly see me in some scenes as myself and as stunt.
 
Not sure of the question exactly, but having connections is always good, but they don't work like magnets. In other words, don't expect emails and calls because you were in a film with a star cast, instead, you be the one to do the work but yes, use these connections.
 
If I understand your post correctly, you were once in a film (stunt double and BG actor) with some known Italian actors. The producer, years later, went on to produce something well-known. The costume designers also worked for a famous actor, but you didn’t actually work with that actor in this film. And one of the actors in this film also worked with a couple of famous actors on other projects. So… you have no direct experience with Ferrari, Sarah Jessica Parker, John Dabney, or Diane Warren… just a couple of degrees of separation? That doesn’t really count for much. For what it’s worth, I’m only two degrees from Kevin Bacon, but that doesn’t really mean anything. Interesting trivia in conversations with friends, but not much past that.

If you actually have close ties to any of those people 15+ years later, then those connections may help (this industry runs on connections).

The reality is that your work as a composer is what will get you more work as a composer.
 
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I couldn't be more of an outsider. But, as Acoustic wrote, this industry runs on connections, so, perhaps whatever connections you do have, even if rather fanciful, or, as far as you can spin, couldn't hurt? You might be the composer who once worked with SJP, that time, or, with whomever those other people are. A composer who was also once a stuntman might be kind of macho, too. And, isn't the Ferrari guy friends with Sam Altman? Yes.



And, man, do those guys have great hair, even into old age. I'm envious.
 
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It can certainly be a resume highlight. Your experience as a stunt man was a benefit based on how the on-set choreography transitioned into how you approach composing action with timing, pacing, synchronization, and careful thought.
 
I could see a slick little promo video about how you used to be a stunt man (doubling for certain stars) and now you compose music (and this promo is action-packed with explosives and stunts to music)... a fun little promo where yes, your experience comes in handy.
 
in reality I was just a background actor and a stunt double replacing some of the actors in some scenes because the actors weren't available at that moment or for saving money I think. So not a dangerous work :)

yeah probably could be just a little plus for a composer cause I've been part of a real film and I could talk with those actors and the director, the producer costume designers.. it helped understanding from a very close perspective how serious and difficult is to make a film, even how it feels being on set.
I don't know, many people are saying that doesn't matter anything, but I feel that it gave me a good perspective on many things that others see only from far away

sure it's not the same as a composer experience, but it helps (even if it's just for myself)

...I was thinking about that too, a video talking about the experience, maybe I'll do something to explain better how it was.. so many things to say, I met so many friends and people, and so many girls ahahah
 
Daniele Nasuti said:
Before becoming a film composer I was a stunt double and background actor in an indie film with famous people involved.
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Your career biography in a sentence. This gives people some perspective about yourself. It may be something to post on your IMDB or web page, for example.

As for myself, I will remember you as the Italian composer who was a stunt double. That separates you from other composers.
 
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