ALBUQUERQUE, March 12 (UPI) -- The casting director of "Felon," a movie filmed in New Mexico, said he was shocked when one of the extras on the film turned out to be a multiple murderer.
Authorities said Clifton Bloomfield, who was sentenced to 195 years in prison after pleading guilty to five murders during four separate incidents, had already killed two people by the time he was cast in the Sony Pictures movie, which stars Val Kilmer and Steven Dorff, in November 2007, KRQE-TV, Albuquerque, reported Thursday.
"We're expecting actors to come to our casting calls," casting director David Cordova said. "I'm not expecting the real thing to come through."
"I don't think anybody else was actually aware that we had cast a mass murderer on the film," he said. "He actually was what he came in to be."
Bloomfield resumed his life of crime after filming for "Felon" wrapped and he pleaded guilty to the murders in October.
Cordova said he can't afford to run detailed background checks on each of the thousands of extras he uses in his films.
"I think about the moments he had the opportunity to be with somebody alone and us not knowing," Cordova said. "It's really scary."
