‘Criminal Minds’ Casting Director Fired After Article on Casting Workshops
Is it a conflict of interest for a casting director of a popular television series to offer casting workshops to actors for a fee?
Lupita Nyong’o on Her Broadway Debut: “When we get up on that stage, you do not know what will happen”
“I think theater offers a chance to flex muscles that then only help to sustain cinematic work.” – Lupita Nyong’o
Movie Review: ‘Be Here Now (The Andy Whitfield Story)’
The only way to describe Be Here Now, the story of actor Andy Whitfield’s quest to find a cure for his cancer diagnosis, is sadness. Heartbreaking sadness.
Jake Gyllenhaal on Missed Superhero Opportunities and Portraying “Antisocial” Characters
“I’ve always wanted to have the opportunity to play a number of different roles, and I knew it wasn’t necessarily the role, but how you played them” – Jake Gyllenhaal
Stay in Control by Controlling Your Calendar
Managing your calendar will allow you to focus your time and energy on what it is you want and need to get done as an actor.
WonderCon: Claudia Black on Her Audition for The CW’s ‘Containment’
“A lot of my work is done by sort of gut and instinct. I just feel into it and I know what they want me to bring to the canvas” – Claudia Black
WonderCon: George Young on ‘Containment’ and Saying Medical Jargon Like He Means It
“It’s not just memorizing and it’s not like a memory test, you have to actually say as if you mean it and understand it” – Containment’s George Young
Christina Marie Moses Talks ‘Containment’ and Getting to “Play in the Audition Room”
“We got to play in the audition room, in the testing room, which takes a lot of the pressure out of things and you can have a good time and hope for the best” – Christina Marie Moses
WonderCon: Hanna Mangan Lawrence on ‘Containment’ and Audition Nerves
“They’re always very nerve-racking but I just tried to control my nerves and make it look like it was easy. But it wasn’t.” – Hanna Mangan Lawrence on auditions
The CW’s ‘Containment’ Executive Producer on Casting the Show and Writing for “Trained” Actors
“[David Gyasi] walked into our room just to read at the last minute and blew us away so much that we changed everything about how we were gonna put this cast together”
Watch: A Conversation with Thomas Mann on ‘Me and Earl and the Dying Girl’
Mann talks about the on the impact of having a film that was so well received at Sundance and the effect it has had on his career.
Jessie Mueller on Broadway’s ‘Waitress’ and Her Initial Fear of Performing in New York City
“I hope that I put something truthful out there, with sensitivity and openness. I feel emotions deeply.” – Jessie Mueller on Broadway’s ‘Waitress’
‘Jeepers Creepers III’ Casting Call Pulled Because of Director’s Prior Conviction of Sexual Misconduct with a Minor
Are you comfortable with the idea of a film director who was convicted of sexual misconduct with a minor nearly 30 years ago?
Review: ‘Rain: A Tribute To The Beatles’
As it says on the poster, Rain: A Tribute to The Beatles is the “next best thing to seeing” the iconic foursome. And whoever wrote that nice little quote is exactly right.
WonderCon: Trevor St. John on ‘Containment’, Playing Drunk and the Waiting Game of Auditions
“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
WonderCon: Kristen Gutoskie Talks The CW’s ‘Containment’ and Her Audition for the Show
“That’s what we want to do as actors, discover what it’s like to be a human being” – Kristen Gutoskie
Why Your Girlfriend/Boyfriend/Spouse Should Not Be Your Headshot Photographer
Casting directors and agents know the difference between professional headshots and those taken by an amateur.
Tony Award-Winner Audra McDonald’s Acting Advice: “Choose the part that scares you”
McDonald recently shared some acting advice in a piece for Lincoln Center (a venue that McDonald is extremely familiar with)
Zachary Levi on His Broadway Return in ‘She Loves Me’
“As much as I’d like to feel like I can compete with the Brad Pitts of the world, that’s like Adonis-y, leading-man stuff and I’m just a little goofier than that” – Zachary Levi
Sarah Paulson Talks ‘The People Vs OJ Simpson’ and How She Strives to Get Her Character Right
“I wonder sometimes if being in the Ryan Murphy world — in that I get to play so many different types of characters within that one TV show — that there really isn’t time to sort of typecast me as one particular kind of thing.” – Sarah Paulson