“I had someone very close to me say to me that hopefully I’ll have many more ups and downs, not in just my career but in life. If you don’t have that, you’re not taking enough risks.” – Taylor Kitsch
“Even when I’m not working, I’m still working on something because I just want to create something.” – Sutton Foster
To prepare you for the new season, check out this video with the cast and casting director below.
Few casting directors are widely recognized for their efforts in shaping the direction of the television series or movies that they work on.
“Learning to play Brian’s songs, without question, brought me closer to the character.” – Paul Dano on playing Brian Wilson in Love & Mercy
“The schedule is insane. I’m probably the most tired one of all. Everyone else is used to not sleeping very much, and I need to learn from them.” – Pete Davidson on SNL
“You can’t afford for there to be gaps in your pool of knowledge when it comes to a character, otherwise what ends up onscreen is generalized and unspecific” – David Oyelowo
“I’d like to go to a bar or a restaurant. I can’t do that now. I am onstage for two hours every night. I can’t go out.” – Helen Mirren
Though she’s appeared in film and on television, most would associate Kristin Chenoweth with her extraordinary Broadway career.
“I’m doing so much research definitely — on Alan Cumming’s take, on the comic books, on even the cartoons.” – Kodi Smit-McPhee on character research for X-Men’s Nightcrawler
“Looking back, I think I know why. Physically, I looked… like the guy—like Johnny in The Karate Kid, you know?” – Chris Pratt on being typecast
“Having to put yourself in that place is tough. To sit in that emotional space, especially when you’re doing it day after day.” – Caitriona Balfe
“I remember getting the audition and being like, “This might not happen,” just because it is such a massive movie.” – Chrissie Fit
The rugged Sam Elliot has most often cast in character actor roles throughout his long career in film, though the 70 year-old Elliot thinks it wasn’t always meant to be that way.
“As an actress you’re perpetually about to be unemployed.” – Anna Kendrick
“Do what you love doing, do it well—everything should fit into place.” – Tom Hardy
“I feel more like I understand acting in a different way.” – Emma Stone on Her Broadway Experience
“What I love is dropping into someone else’s life and exploring it” – Rachel McAdams on Acting
“When I wasn’t getting acting jobs all the time that I liked, I was writing and writing and writing” – Helen Hunt
“The casting director for NYPD Blue liked my British accent, but was put off when I revealed that I was actually just a California boy.” – James Franco
