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

Josh Nalley’s devotion to enjoying useless has breathed life into a new occupation — as a Television actor.

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

“I want to thank CSI: Vegas for casting me,” Nalley states in an appreciatory TikTok movie. “It’s truly an awesome practical experience.”

Nalley has created up an enviable adhering to on his TikTok account @residing_lifeless_josh, exactly where he frequently posts video clips of himself wanting lifeless. In the vids, the bearded, casually dressed Nailey lies motionless — generally in wooded parts but also in swimming swimming pools, beds and bars. The account at present has more than 118,000 followers, and Nalley’s videos have gotten far more than 4 million likes all instructed.

“For the earlier yr ya’ll have been commenting and liking and sharing and subsequent me,” Nalley says in the TikTok. “Devoid of ya’ll, I couldn’t have carried out it.” He caps off the movie by spraying a bottle of champagne.

Nalley advised the Louisville Courier Journal he determined to go whole possum soon after observing a TikToker post about very hot sauce, attracting the focus of various warm-sauce corporations. 

“I considered if I was creative ample enjoying an un-alive person, I could get the attention of a tv present or a movie manufacturing business,” he advised the newspaper, “and how about that, it worked.” 

CBS liked what they saw in Nalley’s films and offered him the element. He traveled to California, and CBS producers took him to the Hollywood Wander of Fame, in accordance to the Courier Journal. A TikTok movie displays him posing on his facet by CSI actress Marg Helgenberger’s star. 

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

It took Nalley 321 days of original un-alive video clips to get his huge break. Now that he is attained that feat, he nevertheless finds explanations to faucet into his internal cadaver. 

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

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

Nalley not long ago shared a video commemorating a yr of publishing his loss of life-themed movies, and even sells products online including a T-shirt that reads “Forged Josh.” He’s advised his followers he is heading to maintain submitting to the account. So appears like admirers can depend on his eerie vids all through spooky year and beyond.