I should have clarified, sorry. I was trying to say I don't think they would waste budget money for a non-speaking part, I would think they would get someone cheaper from AFTRA instead of waisting a couple of days budget...make sense?
AFTRA is basically the same as SAG isn't it. I'm not sure. It was extra to join them I didn't see the need to it. Having the SAG card got through just about anything. AFTRA just includes, voice over, radio, and other stuff. There is the Screen Extras Guild now. So since it is union I am sure they would have to use a union player. Dave has been in enough stuff to earn a card. Plus he lives in New York or close by and obviously he has a pretty good agent since he got the part. They cast those parts like any others. So unless no one else showed up Dave had to have gone against some other BB's I would think. He is smart enough to hire an agent to get him work. He is defintiely one of the smarter BB's out there.