What Happens When A Big Break Leads To Exactly Nothing Else?

Alfonso Cuarón’s son filmed a DVD extra for the 2011 film Gravity, starring an Inuit actor and community theatre director from Greenland. The extra film did so well that there was talk of a separate Oscar nomination for it – but the actor was paid a total of $4,000 and didn’t even know the film had done so well until NPR told him.