Have you seen the George Clooney film
Up in the Air?
If so, you may recall the clips where people spoke about the pain of their recent retrenchment.
Well it turns out these clips featured genuine people who had just been fired.
As reported by
The Daily Beast:
If the individuals who are told they're being laid-off in Jason Reitman's film Up in the Air
look genuinely devastated, that's because they're not acting. Rather
than cast actors for those scenes, Reitman instead cast real people who
had recently lost their jobs.
To find them, he placed ads in local newspapers in two cities that
were hit hard by the Great Recession: Detroit and St. Louis. During
auditions, people were asked what it was like to lose their job in a
horrible economy, and to reenact their response to being fired, or, if
they preferred, to act out how they wished they had reacted.
Here's a sample: