The Casting List You Never Want to Be On

Posted on March 23, 2009 in Acting | No Comments

Avoid getting on the Casting Director’s bad side with this list of tips from Paul Haber.

…If you’re lucky and you’ve been around a while, you’ll invariably know a few casting directors who’ve become fans and call you in for auditions all the time. But what happens when the love ends? It can occur for any number of reasons, but the irony, according to the CDs I spoke with, is that most actors are oblivious to how their own actions can adversely affect a CD’s day. And that behavior can get an actor blackballed from a casting office. I spoke with two commercial casting directors, one in Los Angeles and one in New York, with a combined 40 years of experience. They asked that their names not be used, so volatile is this subject. No actor wants to be blacklisted, obviously, and I suspect that few CDs want to be known as someone who keeps a blacklist. But some do, even if they don’t call it that. My sources agreed that the chief offense that can get an actor blackballed is making the CD look bad in front of his or her clients—that means the ad agency, the director, or the production company. How is this accomplished? Here are the top three ways:

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