Instead of starting with what you think the casting director is looking for and working backwards, start with your intuition and experience of the role and work from there, ignoring your perception of the casting director. Doing it this way not only helps you deliver a more original and more memorable performance, but it will inherently boost the quality of your acting. If you’re following your instincts and trusting your impulses, you’ll deliver a performance that’s more real, more lively, more nuanced, and more believable. In other words, you’ll act better. Plain and simple.
This may seem counterintuitive, but the truth is it’s anything but. Because guess what? More often than not, the casting director doesn’t really know what they’re looking for until they see it. Even if they think they know, the right performance in an audition could completely reshape their thinking on the character. So if you want to know what the most important thing is that a casting director is looking for, the answer is easy: they’re looking for something honest, something real, and something true.
They’re looking for you.
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Such great advice! Thanks, Tammy Hunt!
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Lead with your intuition…love this Tammy. Thank you for sharing,
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I love this - authenticity wins every time.
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"More often than not, the casting director doesn’t really know what they’re looking for until they see it. Even if they think they know, the right performance in an audition could completely reshape their thinking on the character."- Absolutely spot-on advice as always, Tammy Hunt! Thank you for sharing!
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Great advice, Tammy! Thanks as always for sharing!
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Because after doing it 'your way', the CD will always ask you to do it again, incorporating the instructions they have been asked to find by Production. If you are too small, they don't know what you can do; go big, so that they know where you can go.
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Love this! I often hear people say to try to say a line differently than how everyone else would say the line in order to be different and stand out.