Ah, jury duty. Sitting around a crowded room waiting for your name to be called, waiting to find out if the next few weeks of your life will be overtaken by a new role. Wait. This sounds vaguely familiar…
While I recently sat in the jury lounge waiting to be called, I had flashbacks of being at EPAs with performers’ names being announced to stay for callbacks. I sat there thinking, “Call my name! Pick me!” which was odd, since most people would clearly prefer not to be picked for a jury.
I actually like jury duty. I’m one of those rare folks who are fascinated by the system and would love nothing better than to sit on a trial. I started to wonder—what is it about me that makes me an ideal pick? And then a thought hit me so hard that I was taken aback:
If we loved auditions instead of finding them grueling, would actors get callbacks more often?
My name was called to go to our courtroom and I, along with 49 others, were asked to sit in the gallery. By the end of “voir dire”—the questioning process—only five people had been selected. Guess who one of them was? That’s right, me.
So how can I get similar results in the audition room? I have some
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