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‘The Job I Signed Up for Doesn’t Exist Anymore’
Casting is finally considered Oscar-worthy. It’s also never felt like more of a lost art.
See All Like many others in the industry, casting directors’ work has been upended by a cascade of compounding trends: a pandemic that pushed the process online and drove actors away from the coasts, executives anxious that a project will vanish into the ether, a social-media audience ready to second-guess every decision. Maybe that choice is going to get you the part, but what happens if it’s a two-hour movie and you read only three scenes?” Alexa Fogel, a casting director who works with David Simon and Ryan Murphy, swears off self-tapes completely: “My job is to understand the material better than the actor does. Avy Kaufman, who has worked with directors like Ang Lee and Steven Spielberg, remembers being “obsessed” with Adolescence ’s Owen Cooper before he blew up but couldn’t get him cast on a film owing to his thin CV: “A month later, he’s the biggest little star in the world.” These occasions are all the more sweet for how rare they are.
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