With pilot season in our rearview mirror, I want to reflect on the good and the bad. Most of my reflecting will be on the bad. OK, all of my reflecting is going to be on the bad. I am willing to relive these horrifying experiences for you to serve as a cautionary tale for everyone for next season’s pilot season and also for every audition and callback ever.
Actors work so hard at their craft, taking classes, getting great pictures, keeping their casting profiles current and up to date. The saddest thing for us as representatives is to have a client come this close to a booking and then have them blow it afterwards.
Here are four ways to ruin a gig after you’ve already gotten the audition.
1. Completely change your look after an audition or callback. We had this particular colossal blunder happen twice this pilot season. Once was for with an actor who went to a callback with a full beard (the role was Young Jesus) and then arrived to the booking completely clean-shaven, without informing us or anyone in production of what he did. He was sent home and the role recast, and we had a production company very angry at us. The second incident happened when we had a young boy who was first choice for a TV show
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