If you can keep up to date with the big players in the industry, you won’t be thrown when you find yourself auditioning for them.If you do manage to get an audition for a new pilot, optioned by Netflix, you bloody better be prepared.And also how to ignore it – find your type as an actor (Article).
Netflix has become a household name, a code word for sex, and a lifestyle.
In terms of casting, Netflix gets brownie points for being open to unfamiliar names and faces.
Don’t scale yourself down for a role, if anything, onwards and upwards, friends!
We recently put together an article on understanding your type and how to use it to your advantage.
Casting Director’s simply do not have the time to trawl through thousands of reels, headshots and CV’s every day to find agent will give you a step up, it will open you up to more possibilities, but signing with a top tier agent will definitely get you in the room frequently and for big gigs. If you’ve got a fabulous reel, delicious headshots and a CV with some credits, you can hustle your way into the room. There is nothing worse than sweet-talking a leading casting director into seeing you, and then bombing your audition. Look into your favourite shows, look at the casting directors who worked on it, look at the actors, look at their agents. So much data, now in your hot, sweaty, desperate little hands.
Like a true Viking, choose your battles, and make them count. Also subscribe to Hollywood Reporter, they post daily news about Film, TV and the business.
This reality show ask the question - Is Love Blind?
Six daters get to know each other without seeing each other, giving them a chance to like the person for their personality first and not their appearance.
When else am I ever going to get a chance to kiss Leo Di Caprio, ever? You have to get as good as you possibly can at acting so when that opportunity comes you can smash it out of the park.