#casting help

[castyourcharacters]

Someone that could play Marie Avgeropoulos' older brother?

*wakes suddenly from my three year Tumblr coma*

Do you like any of these?

Pierre Boulanger

Chris Galya

Torrance Coombs

Matt Bomer

Andrew Gray

Lucas Valerdi

Thomas Dekker

John Patrick Amedori

Douglas Hickmann

Taylor Fuchs

Adam Gregory

Rich Sommer

Tom Welling

Jake Epstein

Ben Hollingsworth

[diamondcitydarlin]

So, I’m thinking there are some aspiring actors floating around tumblr dot com, right? My production company has recently assigned me as casting director for the production/project I’m on at the moment so that means having to wade through hundreds of applications of really super talented people with tons of accolades. I thought I’d give a few tips of how to make an acting application look better to the poor person that holds your work fate in their hands- because, at the end of the day, when faced with 500+ applications, it’s not really going to matter what your experience or accolades are if you don’t have the right info where it needs to be. Sooner or later casting director person is going to be looking for people with that info at the forefront and tossing away anyone who doesn’t have it. That’s the tea, sis. So here we go:

1) If the call is looking for a specific talent and you have said specific talent, put that info at the forefront of whatever they’re going to see first, be it cover letter or CV, etc. Not just ‘I do this thing’ but also a brief mention of your experience doing the thing. ‘I sing alto and have performed in the following productions x, y, z, I’ve been singing for x amount of years and trained under x’. That will absolutely grab the attention of the casting person and is more likely to launch your app into the viable candidates pile. I should emphasize that discussing the relevant talent here is essential. I find a lot of people who are very proud of their accomplishments and want to use the cover letter to tell me all about everything they’ve done...that has absolutely nothing to do with what I’m looking for. I’m proud of you, baby, but that doesn’t help me. 

2) Contact info needs to be front and center and visible as well, email and phone number, because that’s step two. If I can’t immediately find yours we’re gonna have a problem. 

3) If at all possible please come armed with a good portfolio. Going back to the talent thing, it’s good to have that listed first and your experience, etc, but if I don’t have demo examples of what you can do that’s going to put your app behind in prioritization. It seems like common sense to include demos when asked, but you’d be surprised how few people do this or are like ‘I don’t have demo examples at the moment’. Make some before you apply. Even an at home video of you doing the thing is better than nothing. 

4) Feel the energy of the listing/call. If this seems to be a fun, high energy kind of job, try to match that in your cover letter (Hi, my name is x! I’m super passionate about x and I can’t wait to do more x!). It’s kind of a turn off when I’m looking for people for a comedic, high energy project and I get back a letter of interest that’s grim and flat. It’s not a deal breaker but it definitely doesn’t look as good against applicants that match the energy I put into the call and seem to understand the nature of this particular production. 

5) Reliability and responsiveness is EVERYTHING. Again, accolades and experience count for nada if it takes you forever to reply to my email or return my call. In fact, we basically have a timer on you from the time we contact you for auditions and if you don’t get back in that allotted amount of time your app is tossed. The sooner you get back to the casting director, the more reliable you are at replying to your messages, the better. This stands as an early example of how well we can rely on you to show up on time for shoots, table reads, etc. 

Feel free to add anything else that I may have missed, these are just the common missteps I’ve come up against so far. 

[aliverse]

I will never find the perfect faceclaim for Hadley Foster bc the perfect faceclaim for her is some teenage/early 20s girl from the who modeled her life Skins and Kesha, and loved Teen Mom and Jersey Shore but dressed like an off-duty model from 2018 and had the aesthetic of tumblr in 2016.

Or Addison Rae in Thanksgiving with more content.

Or Maia Mitchell if she played a character who gave the exact vibes of her old Insta photos.

But ya know if anybody wanna gives suggestions, here’s the vibes.

She’s inspired by all the problematic shit I was conditioned to think were cool as a kid/teen in the 2000s and early 2010s, including toxic age gap relationships (grooming but we didn’t call it that back then), teenage pregnancy, and addiction. None of which are actually cool but are making a surprising comeback with Euphoria (Alexa Demie is a close vibe but too much as far as style in Euphoria). Also btw I will be deleting any mean judgemental anons from this post; Hadley is social commentary on the 2000s/early 2010s, and the awful morals of PLL.

And here are some of the Maia Mitchell photos I was talking about;

[prioriiincantatem]

HALP!

I’m trying to decide who would be better as an older!Katie.

I’m caught between Rachel Shenton and Sandra Bullock.

[castyourcharacters]

For the person requesting people similar to Emma Stone:

Rosie Bea

Kirsten Dunst

Louisa Connolly-Burnham

Georgia King

Darya Lebedeva

Cariba Heine

Sarah Snook

Emma Greenwell

Desiree Hall

Franziska Knuppe

Aja Warren

Siri Tollerod

Jane Levy

Devon Jade

Megan West

Holland Roden

Samara Weaving

Caroline Silta

What do you think of these?

[castyourcharacters]

For the person who messaged me about people similar to Loren Kemp, here’s a bunch:

Ilona Swagemakers

Asima Sefic

Georgie Wass

Klaudia Pulik

Alina Kovalenko

Cecile Sinclair

Haley Rohe

Wrenn Schmidt

Imme Visser

Nataliya Piro

Esme Wissels

Kristin Zakala

Alise Shoemaker

Bria Condon

Ida Windeballe

Clancy McLain

Erica Piccininni

Martine Wijman

Ilva Heitmann

Do any of these work for you?

[luigisalad]

So I dreamt about a Harry Potter/Hamilton mashup musical

I've been thinking about it all morning and here's what I've got... Alexander Hamilton - Alex-Harry Potterton Aaron Burr- Draco Burr Eliza Schuyler/Hamilton- Ginerva Schuyler John Laurens- Ron Laurens Lafayette- Hermione Lafayette Hercules Mulligan- Hercules Longbottom George Washington- George Dumbledore King George- King Snape Thomas Jefferson- Thomas Voldemort James Madison- Bella Madison Philip Hamilton- Albus Potterton Maria Reynolds- ChoChang Reynolds Trying to stick close to the original Potter material but not strictly: