Ariana Greenblatt’s Little Five Is Now Casting Extras For Its Summer Shoot

Ariana Greenblatt fans looking for a way to actually appear in one of her films just got a real shot at it. Production has kicked off on “Little Five,” a new feature from Anne Hathaway’s Somewhere Pictures and Indiana based Pigasus Pictures, and the film is currently casting extras for its Bloomington shoot. Greenblatt (Barbie, Now You See Me: Now You Don’t) stars opposite Rain Spencer (The Summer I Turned Pretty) in a story inspired by the founding of Indiana University’s real life women’s Little 500 bicycle race. Ian Samuels directs from a script by Gillian Williams and Paul Shoulberg, and the official synopsis frames “Little Five” as the story of four unlikely young women who band together to chase one shared dream, discovering along the way that changing history sometimes starts with a single team.

Filming is set to begin July 19 and run through August 12, giving interested extras a window across this month and next to sign up and potentially land a spot in front of the cameras. Pigasus Pictures is aiming to gather roughly 10,000 extras for the film’s crowd scenes, opting to fill the stands with real people rather than digital extras to recreate the energy of the actual race. As of mid July, more than 5,000 people had already signed up, according to Pigasus co-owner Gordon Strain, who said the production wants to give participants a story they can carry with them well after the cameras stop rolling.

The two biggest casting days on the calendar are July 25 and August 2, which Pigasus has flagged as the production’s largest crowd filming sessions, complete with raffles and prizes planned during breaks to keep the extras energized. Filming will take place across several locations in and around Bloomington, including Indiana University’s campus, downtown Bloomington, and the area near Griffy Lake, with several temporary street closures already approved to accommodate the shoot.

Signing up is straightforward. Interested extras can register through the link in Pigasus Pictures’ Instagram bio or by scanning the QR code featured on the production’s flyers, and signups remain open throughout the filming window rather than closing after a single deadline. Earlier casting materials also asked extras to lean into the era, requesting a willingness to style hair in an authentic 80s look, mullets included, along with access to a drivable car from before 1987 for anyone hoping to help dress the film’s period backdrop.

It is a rare opportunity for Greenblatt fans anywhere to land a spot in one of her productions, and a notable one for the industry too. Bloomington hasn’t seen a sports drama shoot at this scale in years, following in the footsteps of films like Breaking Away and Hoosiers, and “Little Five” looks to be one of the more ambitious location shoots of the summer.