"Smaller roles in film are also as difficult to cast, he adds: 'The actor who usually gets the part is the one who does that one line as if it's 50 lines and somehow finds seven different colors within the one sentence. They fill it out, and their role starts when the camera goes on, not when they start to speak'."
"Telsey emphasizes the importance of taking every opportunity to be seen by casting directors, no matter how insignificant it may seem. 'Being a reader is a great exercise and a great way to explore your instrument,' he says. 'You just learn so much from watching'."
" There's an art to auditioning, Telsey notes, and one of the most common mistakes actors make is 'not being available to what's going on in the moment in the room, because they're so worried about the nerves and all of that they're missing what I call the 'blind date' that they're having with the casting staff. You can easily tell when someone is not present. Another common mistake is not fulfilling the material by making a choice and being incredibly prepared'."
"... do everything and anything. We cast a million readings, and it always surprises me when actors turn them down. But if you did that reading, nine months later when the show got green-lit, the theatre would have just offered it to you, because often they don't have time to cast it with someone else... an actor's job is to say yes'."
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