Casting really just comes down to what you look like and how well you dramatize your art. Then they decide if you’re hired \u2014 or not.<\/p>\n
Think of it like this: if I’m somebody who has an interest in being an organic food grower then I am responsible for creating organic food and that has nothing to do with being a chef. What a chef does with the organic food ingredients I provide, how they mix them, season them, etc. to make a particular dish, has absolutely nothing to do with me, the organic farmer.<\/p>\n
As an actor, your art (the “organic” you) has nothing to do with a casting person or a director (the chefs) looking at a role on a piece of paper and looking at a corresponding group of headshot photos and say “Hmmm, well, no, he\/she doesn’t really fit that!”<\/p>\n
But it’s my art to me. There are jobs that I go up for where I basically feel like as long as I don’t completely screw up, I got a shot because I’m really right for the role. Then there are other roles you go up for where you go, yeah, I could be cast, but it’s not really in my physical wheelhouse because this entire conversation is BUSINESS. It’s not the art!<\/p>\n
We have a business protocol in this profession, just like every other profession. Let’s call that the process. The process is exactly why I think we as actors have to understand the business better. If we don’t, we will give far too much weight to all the things that happen within the process and how we imagine it might (or might not) go for us.<\/p>\n
Have you ever heard a story about an actor that was presented with a script that was eventually made into a movie? Then we’re at a party and we find out that another actor was also offered the lead in that movie and we cannot imagine it. We love Tom Selleck, but we just can’t imagine anyone but Harrison Ford playing Indiana Jones. That’s the understanding of the business \u2014 “the process” of THE BUSINESS.<\/p>\n
You get a headshot. You study and go to class. You perform somewhere. As things develop, you get a representative and then they submit you to casting. Eventually some person calls you in. That’s the process of this profession.<\/p>\n
My whole thing going forward as you read more of this blog is to give you the tangible understanding, perspectives and skills to go out and supplement \u2014 intelligently and professionally \u2014 your dreams and goals with your representative’s corresponding actions. Acting is a beautiful art. However, the second you want to make money at it, it becomes a business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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