Acting Newbies are getting the roles of their lives

In recent years, amateurs such as Edward Furlong (“Terminator 2“), Brad Renfro (“The Client“) and Jason Statham (“Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels“) went from never having acted to being “discovered” to parlaying a shot at fame in a mainstream movie into viable acting careers.

But in the last decade, the trend toward casting novices really gained traction. Add to that the flexibility of shooting on digital video — with which recording take after take doesn’t waste expensive film — and you started to see directors taking more casting chances.

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