by Cast It Admin | Mar 7, 2017 | Seminar Recap, US
Casting director Katie Taylor joined us for our February 2017 seminar, where she shared a lot of great information with us. Let’s see some of the things she had to say. 1. If You’re Getting Avails, You’re Doing It Right Success can be hard to...
by Cast It Admin | Mar 7, 2017 | Movie Review, US
Get Out Get Out is one of the eeriest, funniest, and most socially relevant horror film to come out in decades. The film, which is the directorial debut from Jordan Peele (of Key & Peele fame), tackles racism—specifically racism from rich, liberal-leaning white...
by Cast It Admin | Mar 7, 2017 | Commercial Actors Should Never..., US
I find it funny to say that I’ve considered writing about the subject of actor gifts to industry professionals and have decided against it several times. Why? Because it’s controversial, I guess. There are two camps: believers in gift giving to industry pros, and...
by Cast It Admin | Mar 7, 2017 | Questions & Actors, US
QUESTION: How can you tell if your kid really wants to act or is just going through a phase? ACTOR: That’s a question I hear from parents all the time, so I spoke with my dear friend, acting coach, speaker, and acclaimed actor, Mike Kimmel, to get some insight into...
by Cast It Admin | Mar 7, 2017 | The Competitive Edge, US
For every part you audition for, you have to make choices to give personality to the character. It is a known fact that you can’t be “neutral” and give a good audition. There are all kinds of conundrums associated with what choice to make. “Am I being too big, too...
by Cast It Admin | Mar 6, 2017 | Act Smart! Good Tools for a Great Career, US
We’ve each gotta do what we’ve gotta do to get the bills paid. If we’re really lucky, we’re getting paid to do the thing we want to do the most, i.e., “acting for dollars,” as my friend O-Lan dubs it. But there are inevitable...