![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/ive-made-6k-with-a-glam-second-job/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/DD-COMP-extra-job-off-plat-1.jpg&description=Exclusive EXTRA CASH Published : 9:03, 16 Jul 2023 Updated : 9:03, 16 Jul 2023 OLLIE Simmers usually spends his days fixing air conditioning units - but has boosted his income with a second job that's far more glamorous. The 39-year-old from Hampshire has earned £6,000 appearing in Hollywood movies and top telly shows as an extra. 1 Ollie Simmers has made £6k since starting extra work in 2017 Blink and you'll miss it, but the engineer can be spotted in dozens of well known films, like 1917 - the Oscar winning World War I epic directed by Sam Mendes and starting Benedict Cumberbatch. And his name appears in the credits of high profile Amazon Prime series Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power . Ollie said: "I started around October 2017. A lot of my friends think I'm a pretty animated guy and one said I'd be good on TV. "She got back to me and said she'd seen an advert for an open casting in Reading. It was for ITV's Vanity Fair. "They were looking for a huge number of people to play soldiers." Ollie signed up, and within weeks was heading to a week-long army boot camp to learn how to act like a Napoleonic soldier. Then followed two weeks of filming where he got paid a day rate of around £150. Since then, Ollie has worked on the Angelina Jolie led Maleficent 2: Mistress of Evil , pocketing £200 a day. He'll soon be rubbing more showbiz shoulders this summer, as he has more jobs lined up for next month - but remains tight-lipped on the top movies he's working on next. The extra cash comes in handy "filling in the gaps" of his main salary as an air con engineer. "I can do it because I'm self-employed. In the winter time when air conditioning work is quieter, it pads out those months," he said. Ollie still gets a buzz when stepping on set - the novelty has not worn off since he started six years ago. And he's even made lifelong friends along the way. "It's a bit of an adrenaline rush when the projects come through," he said. "It's fun when you come to shoot and to see ho){kind=link}
OLLIE Simmers usually spends his days fixing air conditioning units – but has boosted his income with a second job that’s far more glamorous.
The 39-year-old from Hampshire has earned £6,000 appearing in Hollywood movies and top telly shows as an extra.
Blink and you’ll miss it, but the engineer can be spotted in dozens of well known films, like 1917 – the Oscar winning World War I epic directed by Sam Mendes and starting Benedict Cumberbatch.
And his name appears in the credits of high profile Amazon Prime series Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.
Ollie said: “I started around October 2017. A lot of my friends think I’m a pretty animated guy and one said I’d be good on TV.