Josh Nalley has nowofficiallydone both, afterpretending to be a corpse on TikTokevery day since October 2021 landed him a role in an upcoming episode ofCSI: Vegas. Of course, he’ll be playing a dead guy.
“I got an email from CBS that said they’d seen me on TikTok and wanted to offer me the part,” Nalley, 42, told theCourier Journal. “At first I didn’t believe it, but they flew me out to California. It turned out that Mario Van Peebles was the director for that episode so besides getting cast in the show, I also got to meet him, which was great.”
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After a yearlong quest to score an acting gig simply based off videos of him lying still in various places, Nalley landed the role of his lifetime (or after-life time).
In his videos Nalley has appeared at the bottom of a staircase, on random cliffs in Kentucky, in abandoned buildings, in the middle of a creek, and even in front of a mini-mall to prove that he’d pass as an accurate dead person. And now, his story has come full circle just in time for spooky season.
The restaurant manager will appear in a Nov. 3 episode ofCSI: Vegas, which will star Paula Newsome, Mandeep Dhillon, Marg Helgenberger, and William Petersen as living people. Showrunner Jason Tracey toldEntertainment Weeklythat the appearance proved that Josh was a “pro at this death thing.”
“Rarely do we find an actor as well prepared to play a corpse as Josh,” he said. “It was a pleasure watching him work.”
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But playing dead isn’t just a challenge to Josh, as he acknowledges that he’s getting older, and told thePostthat now he can “face death and not really have to worry about it because, you know, I’ve seen myself dead so many times.”
While he’s gotten offers to appear in music videos and low-budget films as a corpse, too, Nalley has his sights set on the next big step in his acting career. “Maybe one day, getting a speaking role,” he said.
source: people.com
