Casting directors are your advocates and champions. Your wonderful work makes us look good and actually gets the role cast. Your disconnected, tentative, muddled work does nothing for anyone. So we need you to be great! We’re here to host your experience and shepherd you in, not hold you back. We want to share in your excellent work—it makes us happy!
Casting directors await you on the other side of the door you can see as either a gateway or barricade. Whether it’s a pre-read for an associate or a full-blown director/producer callback session, this is your time, your experience, your opportunity to do exceptional work. Enter the space and do the work for yourself, for the gratification of the work itself, and yes, to collaborate with other creative people waiting to figure it out with you. They need you; they can’t do it without you.
Here are some choices you can make (and they are choices) to keep any casting director truly happy in the room.
1. Accept the invitation with grace and enthusiasm. You were requested to be here as our guest.
2. Come to do the work you love so much, not to please or get our approval.
3. Enter with certainty. Don’t give up your power as soon
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