Guy Known for Playing Dead on TikTok Lands Role as Corpse on ‘CSI: Vegas’

Josh Nalley’s dedication to enjoying lifeless has breathed life into a brand new profession — as a tv actor.

After curating a macabre TikTok account crammed with quite a few movies of himself trying “un-alive,” the 42-year-old Kentucky restaurant supervisor will seem as a lifeless man on an upcoming episode of CSI: Vegas.

“I need to thank CSI: Vegas for casting me,” Nalley says in an appreciatory TikTok video. “It’s actually a tremendous expertise.”

Nalley has constructed up an enviable following on his TikTok account @living_dead_josh, the place he commonly posts movies of himself trying lifeless. In the vids, the bearded, casually dressed Nailey lies immobile — typically in wooded areas but additionally in swimming swimming pools, beds and bars. The account presently has greater than 118,000 followers, and Nalley’s movies have gotten greater than 4 million likes all advised.

“For the previous 12 months ya’ll have been commenting and liking and sharing and following me,” Nalley says within the TikTok. “Without ya’ll, I could not have accomplished it.” He caps off the video by spraying a bottle of champagne.

Nalley advised the Louisville Courier Journal he determined to go full possum after seeing a TikToker put up about scorching sauce, attracting the eye of a number of hot-sauce corporations. 

“I believed if I used to be artistic sufficient enjoying an un-alive individual, I may get the eye of a tv present or a film manufacturing firm,” he advised the newspaper, “and the way about that, it labored.” 

CBS favored what they noticed in Nalley’s movies and supplied him the half. He traveled to California, and CBS producers took him to the Hollywood Walk of Fame, in accordance with the Courier Journal. A TikTok video exhibits him posing on his facet by CSI actress Marg Helgenberger’s star. 

@living_dead_josh Tune in to the Season 2 premiere September twenty ninth @csicbs #csivegas#cbs#dreamcometrue#targets#fyp#foryoupage♬ Who Are You – The Who

It took Nalley 321 days of preliminary un-alive movies to get his large break. Now that he is achieved that feat, he nonetheless finds causes to faucet into his interior cadaver. 

“Un-aliving till the following episode of CSI: Vegas,” he wrote in a latest Tok. 

Crime drama CSI: Vegas, a sequel to long-running collection CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, premiered in 2021 and stars Paula Newsome, Matt Lauria and Mandeep Dhillon. The CSI: Vegas episode that includes Nalley premieres on Nov. 3 on CBS and is directed by Mario Van Peebles.

Nalley just lately shared a video commemorating a 12 months of posting his death-themed movies, and even sells merchandise on-line together with a T-shirt that reads “Cast Josh.” He’s advised his followers he’ll preserve posting to the account. So feels like followers can rely on his eerie vids all through spooky season and past.