In a 25-person casting session, there are only five people who are truly competing for the job. This was the opinion of a group of casting directors with whom I recently spoke. What do the five know that the other 20 don’t?
They know what’s interesting about themselves. It’s nice to say you can just be yourself in the audition, but that’s only the beginning. You need a way of working that allows you access to the four corners of your personality, as well as the specifics of your emotional mapping, so that the people in the room see you at your most interesting and unique.
In large ways, it’s true that we’re all the same; it’s in the details that we’re different. Accessing and embracing these details requires a disciplined practice of self-awareness: looking at all the events of your life through the lens of an artist and gathering self-knowledge and insight for the purpose of giving it back to the world.
The five have the insight to find the true intersection between themselves and the words by discovering and living in the details of their own personalities. They know that the hallmark of all great art is specificity.
They think like writers. After
In a 25-person casting session, there are only five people who are truly competing for the job. This was the opinion of a group of casting directors with whom I recently spoke. What do the five know that the other 20 don’t?
They know what’s interesting about themselves. It’s nice to say you can just be yourself in the audition, but that’s only the beginning. You need a way of working that allows you access to the four corners of your personality, as well as the specifics of your emotional mapping, so that the people in the room see you at your most interesting and unique.
In large ways, it’s true that we’re all the same; it’s in the details that we’re different. Accessing and embracing these details requires a disciplined practice of self-awareness: looking at all the events of your life through the lens of an artist and gathering self-knowledge and insight for the purpose of giving it back to the world.
The five have the insight to find the true intersection between themselves and the words by discovering and living in the details of their own personalities. They know that the hallmark of all great art is specificity.
They think like writers. After
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