Some actors want to play Hamlet. Dead Body Guy simply wants to play dead. He doesn't even want to tackle a death scene or crop up as a zombie or a ghost. He wants to loll about as a fragrant ornament in the backdrop of any film or TV show that might require a corpse. Dead Body Guy is a film extra, and death is his business.
Dead Body Guy has a website full of publicity shots. These depict him in various stages of deadness. We see him hanging from a light fitting, guillotined by a window, mauled by a dog and zonked out in the bath a-la Jim Morrison. One photo appears to show Dead Body Guy being devoured by a jeep. It transpires that there are almost as many dead performances as there are living ones, and Dead Body Guy is nothing if not versatile.
When he's not being dead, Dead Body Guy takes time out to correspond with his fans. He is, he informs us, about to feature in "the series finale of What I like About You" and is also appearing in a movie called Stiffs (presumably as one of the stars). In my experience, true-life Dead Body Guys tend to be rather quiet. But Dead Body Guy is both chatty and noisy. Explaining his credentials, he says, "Just ask my wife. No one can lay around like me" and he typically ends his sentences with a rash of exclamation points. Perhaps he is trying to wake all the other Dead Body Guys.
Having checked out his website, I have grown rather fond of Dead Body Guy. Hollywood should find more room for those such as he. There can't be many films that would not be improved by the sight of Dead Body Guy lolling out of a jeep's bonnet or dangling from a light fitting or just lying slumped in the background behind Tom Cruise or Gwyneth Paltrow or someone. Live Body Actors have had it their way for far too long, it seems. It would do them good to face some stiff competition.
