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

Josh Nalley’s commitment to participating in lifeless has breathed daily life into a new occupation — as a Tv set actor.

Right after curating a macabre TikTok account filled with several videos of himself on the lookout “un-alive,” the 42-calendar year-aged Kentucky restaurant manager will appear as a dead gentleman on an forthcoming episode of CSI: Vegas.

“I want to thank CSI: Vegas for casting me,” Nalley suggests in an appreciatory TikTok online video. “It truly is really an astounding practical experience.”

Nalley has constructed up an enviable following on his TikTok account @living_lifeless_josh, exactly where he regularly posts videos of himself seeking lifeless. In the vids, the bearded, casually dressed Nailey lies motionless — normally in wooded spots but also in swimming swimming pools, beds and bars. The account at present has far more than 118,000 followers, and Nalley’s video clips have gotten a lot more than 4 million likes all instructed.

“For the earlier yr ya’ll have been commenting and liking and sharing and pursuing me,” Nalley states in the TikTok. “Without ya’ll, I couldn’t have accomplished it.” He caps off the movie by spraying a bottle of champagne.

Josh Nalley TikTok

Josh Nalley/TikTok

Nalley advised the Louisville Courier Journal he made the decision to go comprehensive possum right after seeing a TikToker post about incredibly hot sauce, attracting the attention of quite a few incredibly hot-sauce providers. 

“I assumed if I was creative ample taking part in an un-alive person, I could get the notice of a television exhibit or a movie output company,” he informed the newspaper, “and how about that, it worked.” 

CBS liked what they noticed in Nalley’s video clips and offered him the section. He traveled to California, and CBS producers took him to the Hollywood Wander of Fame, according to the Courier Journal. A TikTok online video displays him posing on his side by CSI actress Marg Helgenberger’s star

@residing_dead_josh Tune in to the Time 2 premiere September 29th @csicbs #csivegas#cbs#dreamcometrue#targets#fyp#foryoupage♬ Who Are You – The Who

It took Nalley 321 days of first un-alive movies to get his significant break. Now that he is accomplished that feat, he nevertheless finds motives to faucet into his interior cadaver. 

“Un-aliving right up until the upcoming episode of CSI: Vegas,” he wrote in a modern Tok

Crime drama CSI: Vegas, a sequel to very long-managing series 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 clip commemorating a yr of submitting his death-themed videos, and even sells products on the internet which includes a T-shirt that reads “Cast Josh.” He’s told his followers he’s heading to keep submitting to the account. So seems like lovers can rely on his eerie vids throughout spooky year and over and above. 

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