Lights! Camera! Play… dead?
In five days, Josh Nalley, a TikToker who has perfected the art of “playing dead” in more than 300 videos posted on the app under the his personal account, will see his dream of appearing on a TV show realized.
Nalley – who is a Kentucky resident and restaurant manager – told KSBW 8 Action News that he started the project out of boredom.
“I’m a dead body is what I am,” he said.
As one might imagine, Nalley has posed in a plethora of poses and in a variety of scenery. One video shows him with his eyes open, staring blankly. Another shows him in front of a beautiful body of water.
Recently Nalley also did a dead body pose with a pumpkin on his head and in the past, he posed as if he fell off of a ladder stringing Christmas lights. According to KSBW 8 Action News, one of his personal favorite poses included a trick that made him appear headless.
“I did it using a mirror to reflect the ground in front of me so I didn’t have a head,” he explained.
On Sept. 29, Nalley announced that he finally got a part on a show, CBS’ “CSI: Vegas”, while posing as a dead body on Hollywood Boulevard. The show, a sequel to the original “CSI”, flew him out to film his appearance.
While he wasn’t paid for the five hours he spent on a metal gurney to portray a corpse in a morgue, Nalley’s performance got a rave review from executive producer Jason Tracey.
“When Josh lies perfectly still, he is every inch the equal of Sir Lawrence Olivier,” the producer said.
You can catch “CSI: Vegas” Thursdays at 9 p.m. CST.