Josh Nalley’s dedication to taking part in 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 wanting “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 wanting lifeless. In the vids, the bearded, casually dressed Nailey lies immobile — usually in wooded areas but in addition in swimming swimming pools, beds and bars. The account at the moment has greater than 118,000 followers, and Nalley’s movies have gotten greater than 4 million likes all advised.
“For the previous yr ya’ll have been commenting and liking and sharing and following me,” Nalley says within the TikTok. “Without ya’ll, I could not have executed it.” He caps off the video by spraying a bottle of champagne.
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Nalley advised the Louisville Courier Journal he determined to go full possum after seeing a TikToker submit about sizzling sauce, attracting the eye of a number of hot-sauce corporations.
“I believed if I used to be inventive sufficient taking part in 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 preferred what they noticed in Nalley’s movies and provided him the half. He traveled to California, and CBS producers took him to the Hollywood Walk of Fame, in response to the Courier Journal. A TikTok video reveals him posing on his aspect by CSI actress Marg Helgenberger’s star.
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It took Nalley 321 days of preliminary un-alive movies to get his large break. Now that he is completed that feat, he nonetheless finds causes to faucet into his inside cadaver.
“Un-aliving till the subsequent 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 yr 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 will preserve posting to the account. So feels like followers can rely on his eerie vids all through spooky season and past.