When asked for her best piece of acting advice, Amy Sherman-Palladino sighed and exclaimed, in a very Sherman-Palladino-esque way, “Oy, Jesus Christmas.”
The brain behind Amazon’s “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” told Backstage that she feels for aspiring actors, especially in the audition room. “Acting is so hard,” she said. “It’s so, so hard. For me there’s nothing worse than casting sessions because so much goes into the decision to cast somebody. You’d be surprised how small the [deciding factors] are—‘they’re good, they’re bad’—there’s so much that goes into it, there’s so much that has to happen. They’ve got to be the right this, the right that.” The reason she has the utmost respect for performers, she added, is “because you’re laying it all bare, you’re laying it all on the line.”
Take “Maisel,” the writer-director-producer-showrunner’s comedy hit about a 1958 Upper West Side housewife who, after her husband’s sudden abandonment, stumbles into a promising career as a downtown stand-up comic. Early in the Golden-Globe-winning show’s development,
When asked for her best piece of acting advice, Amy Sherman-Palladino sighed and exclaimed, in a very Sherman-Palladino-esque way, “Oy, Jesus Christmas.”
The brain behind Amazon’s “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” told Backstage that she feels for aspiring actors, especially in the audition room. “Acting is so hard,” she said. “It’s so, so hard. For me there’s nothing worse than casting sessions because so much goes into the decision to cast somebody. You’d be surprised how small the [deciding factors] are—‘they’re good, they’re bad’—there’s so much that goes into it, there’s so much that has to happen. They’ve got to be the right this, the right that.” The reason she has the utmost respect for performers, she added, is “because you’re laying it all bare, you’re laying it all on the line.”
Take “Maisel,” the writer-director-producer-showrunner’s comedy hit about a 1958 Upper West Side housewife who, after her husband’s sudden abandonment, stumbles into a promising career as a downtown stand-up comic. Early in the Golden-Globe-winning show’s development,
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