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Aurora University employees Andrew and Amy Manion of Sugar Grove display their period garb on the set of the Chicago-shot crime drama “Public Enemies.” |
When you go to see Johnny Depp’s new gangster movie “Public Enemies” – and what Chicagoland filmgoer would miss it? – keep a sharp lookout for the news photographer at the Biograph Theater.
And the innocuous-looking passenger at Union Station.
And the guy dancing around the Aragon Ballroom.
They’re all played by the same extra, Andrew Manion of Sugar Grove.
“I spoke several times with Johnny Depp,” Manion said of his brush with celebrity. “He’s very gracious.”
What about Depp’s co-star, Christian Bale, the star of the Chicago-made super-hit thriller “The Dark Knight”?
“Bale was the most standoffish,” Manion reported. “But then, he has a reputation for that.” (Read more…)