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Local actors hope for 'Bad' break

Updated: Sunday, 09 Aug 2009, 6:36 PM MDT
Published : Sunday, 09 Aug 2009, 6:36 PM MDT

Aspiring actors turned out for a casting call for the TV show "Breaking Bad" on Sunday.

The show is shot and set in Albuquerque. It's about a high school chemistry teacher diagnosed with terminal cancer, who starts cooking and selling meth to provide for his family.

Sunday afternoon was a busy extra casting call on McLeod NE. Everyone had to hold a piece of paper with their personal information and smile for the cameras.

The third season of the show, which starts filming this week, could use up to 30,000 extras.

"There's people who just have never done it before, there's people that would love to get that first break, and I've given a lot of New Mexico actors their first break," Film Savage President Gwyn Savage said.

Casting directors are looking for lots of extras between the ages of 14 and 22 this coming Friday from 12:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. at Highland High School in southeast Albuquerque.

It's for a scene in the first episode of the new season.

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