Casting Sessions

I love running casting sessions. It's a strange kind of power-trip really. It's true. An actor walks into the room and wants to impress you - even if you're not the person who makes the decision on who gets the role. They don't know that - and they'll audition their hearts out for you. What follows that desire is power. I have the power to say "dance" and they will start to dance! It's fun.

I have never actually decided what an actor was to do for their audition. I simply run their lines and exercises for the camera so the director can review the auditions later. But I have been given some fun curve balls to throw to my audition groups. For one audition I had to ask each actor to count from 1-10 giving each number a different emotion. None of the actors seemed phased - they just jumped to it (though one guy got stuck thinking of an emotion half-way through and we were convinced he lost count)!