THERE was an actor strike of sorts on the set of the Gold Coast-based film Triangle yesterday.

It wasn’t Hollywood starlet Melissa George or any of the other high-flying actors causing problems, rather it was the local seagulls. It seems the birds had decided prawns and hot chips were not enough pay for them to be filmed by the crew.

The crew had hoped to attract a large flock of the resident Southport seagulls to a green tarpaulin loaded with the free feed bought next door at Peter’s Fish Market. Triangle is a psychological thriller that production staff said had a seagulls theme throughout the movie.

“There are about 20 scenes involving seagulls,” said one insider.

“So we are down here to film as many as we can so we can reproduce them with VFX (visual effects) later on. “We’ve been here all morning but we haven’t had much luck.”