About a month ago, some keywords in one of my standing Google Alerts sent me to the production blog for the book-to-film I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell. I have not read the book,…
Posts tagged casting
Staying Present
I was watching this weekend’s Georgia game and heard one of the commentators say something that seemed somewhat meaningful. This was in the final moments of the fourth quarter. The score was tied and the…
How to Become a Casting Director
For those of you who have read my first book, Casting Qs: A Collection of Casting Director Interviews, this will be a rerun. But I realized that in three years of writing The Actors Voice,…
Risk Assessment
I believe that one of the casting director’s primary duties is assessing risk on behalf of producers. Yes, we have this really cool job that involves reading a script, making a list of actors who…
Staged Readings
I’ve written before about When to Say No and When to Work for Free, but I want to address something very specific that often straddles a line in this area: the staged reading. Several times…
Laying the Groundwork for a Show Bible
Thank you so much for your articles, they have been enormously insightful. Here is my question. I intern at a casting office and have great relationships with everyone there. They are even working to help…
Talent Agent in Winnipeg with Questions about Casting
I am a talent agent in Winnipeg. Winnipeg has become a very busy center recently. We have two principal casting directors and two extra casting directors. Both are starting to venture into principal and commercial…
Do Casting Directors Show All Preread Footage to Producers?
In a recent article, you mentioned this: “We sit together and flip through headshots, discussing the notes we’ve made on the resumés, and decide which actors’ work on tape will even get a second look,…
Crappy Reader Syndrome
Another of your least favorite things (according to the emails I received in response to my question: “How Can We Make Your Job Easier?“) is a bad reader. True. Nothing can derail a thoughtfully-prepared audition…
The Long Shortlist
This week, I’ve been dealing with something I call “The Long Shortlist.” It’s sort of a state of casting limbo. Somewhere between the longest list of submitted actors and the shortest list (the final cast…