{"id":7503,"date":"2010-07-20T19:58:11","date_gmt":"2010-07-20T17:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/?p=7503"},"modified":"2015-05-06T14:31:37","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T12:31:37","slug":"q13-fox-anchor-bill-wixey-became-an-extra-on-the-good-guys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/2010\/07\/q13-fox-anchor-bill-wixey-became-an-extra-on-the-good-guys\/","title":{"rendered":"Q13 Fox Anchor Bill Wixey became an extra on &#8220;The Good Guys&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Q13 Fox Anchor Bill Wixey became an extra on &#8220;The Good Guys&#8221; episode eight which aired yesterday on FOX. In &#8220;Hunches and Heists&#8221; he was cast as one half of a happy couple to appear in the background of a scene Colin Hanks and Bradley Whitford were shooting across the street.<\/p>\n<blockquote>[&#8230;]\nAfter one take I was pretty sure that Bradley Whitford noticed the fine acting that was being displayed. And as it turns out, I was right. He did notice. &#8220;You were across the street&#8221;, Whitford tells me. &#8220;I wouldn&#8217;t consider yourself a great extra. My advice is less. Most people go with opposing hands when walking, but you were going with kind of a llama thing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I told him and Colin Hanks that I was hoping to get noticed and clearly it worked. &#8220;We&#8217;ll see if you make the final cut&#8221;, Hanks says.<\/p>\n<p>As it turned out, I didn&#8217;t make the final cut on the street scene.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But Fox Anchor Bill Wixey got his big chance after one of the crew members asked him, if he wanted to change roles and become a uniformed officer and he appeared as &#8220;Officer #3&#8221; on the show.<\/p>\n<p>Please make sure to read his article<a href=\"http:\/\/www.q13fox.com\/news\/kcpq-071710-goodguys,0,7290299.story?track=rss\" target=\"_blank\"> How Q13 Fox Anchor Bill Wixey Became An Extra On Monday&#8217;s Episode of Fox&#8217;s &#8220;The Good Guys&#8221;<\/a>. A video clip is available, as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q13 Fox Anchor Bill Wixey became an extra on &#8220;The Good Guys&#8221; episode eight which aired yesterday on FOX. In<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[2377,3],"tags":[18,1824],"coauthors":[2262],"class_list":["post-7503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-colin-hanks","category-leading","tag-colin-hanks","tag-the-good-guys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7503"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7504,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7503\/revisions\/7504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7503"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=7503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}