![]() His sister was actually in charge of casting, and she wanted some more teenagers as extras in the film. I sent my application and sadly didn’t hear back.Ībout a week before Undercover Angel started filming, a family friend called our house. The film was looking for extras, and they were asking people to apply. In the summer of 1998, there was an article in the Ottawa Citizen announcing that a big Hollywood movie would be filming in Ottawa. ![]() That’s ok, but the movie is special to me, since I was in it! So why am I bothering to write about it? It doesn’t seem like a film many people would be searching for. Dodo as used in Miss Cast Away, an otherwise unrelated film from the same writer/director.Oh, you haven’t seen the 1999 romantic comedy Undercover Angel? Don’t worry, no one has! I believe it had a very limited theatrical release and then essentially went straight-to-video. Bryan Michael Stoller and Emily Mae Young were in attendance. A film premiere was held at the Coliseum Theatres on Carling Avenue the year after filming.Glen Kulka, former football player and wrestler, moonlighted as security on the set.From those, extras were chosen for filming throughout the film. Anyone interested was asked to write a short letter and fax it in. The Ottawa Citizen had an ad to find extras for the film.Jay Leno was in talks to play the talk show host, but Casey Kasem ended up filling the role.Ultimately his part was played by a local actor in Ottawa as head of the go-kart track. A scene was scheduled to be filmed with Jim Varney but was cancelled due to Yasmine Bleeth's agent refusing to allow her to be in a movie with him.The scenes featuring Casey Kasem were filmed in a studio at CTV Ottawa. Some of the locations were the Canal Ritz Restaurant, Thunderbird Mini-golf and Go-Karts, The Supreme Court of Canada, and the Chapters location at the Pinecrest Shopping Centre. Most of the film was shot on location in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada in July and August 1998. ![]()
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