Interview: ‘The Real O’Neals’ Matt Shively Talks Playing 17, Auditions and His first Acting Job
“I like to be totally memorized because if you’re not fully memorized, you can’t really make choices.” – Matt Shively on Auditioning
“I like to be totally memorized because if you’re not fully memorized, you can’t really make choices.” – Matt Shively on Auditioning
“The worst part is waiting. In fact, it’s far worse to wait to find out if you got a job then it is to find out you didn’t get a job.” – Trevor St. John
“There were many times that I would go into auditions and a casting director would say, ‘It’s really great. Really love what you’re doing, but we’d love you to come back with a jean miniskirt and high heels.” – Brie Larson
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“We look for somebody who can elevate the material, which is very important when you’re looking at so many actors for a specific role.”
Mark Saks, the casting director for ‘The Good Wife’, speaks about what he looks for in actors he casts for the show and mistakes he frequently sees at auditions, especially those made by young actors
“”I rang up my agent and I said, ‘Just get me a self- tape. Please let me send something so that they can see me.'” – Tom Holland
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“I thought, ‘If I don’t get a job soon, I’m just going to go back to New York.’” – Rooney Mara on her first years in LA
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“Sticking with it is probably one of the hardest things to do, but I think it’s the only way you can make it in this industry” – Katrina Bowden on Acting
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“When I was growing up and it never occurred to me as a career path” – Adam Pascal on being an actor
It’s Nurse Jackie‘s final season and 13-year-old Mackenzie Aladejem, who plays Jackie’s (Edie Falco) daughter Fiona, told me that when the show is finally over, it’s the cast and crew that she’s really going to miss. “Especially Edie, because she’s become a second mom to me.” Mackenzie, who joined the