Casting directors wade through hundreds and hundreds of actors sometimes just for one role, and it’s safe to say they’ve seen it all when it comes to thespians trying to stand out from the crowd and land the part. When asked to share some do’s and don’ts for auditioning actors during Gold Derby’s Meet the Btl Experts: TV Casting Directors panel (watch above), Julie Harkin (“I May Destroy You” and “Industry”) had one key one. “Don’t get naked. I’ve had some self-tapes recently with people with their tops off. Don’t do that!” she exclaims.
As for what you should do, “just be natural,” she advises, with which our other panelists Kelly Valentine Hendry (“Bridgerton”), Victoria Thomas (“The Mosquito Coast”), Theo Park (“Ted Lasso”) and Michael V. Nicolo (“Young Rock”) all agreed. “I’m a big champion of being yourself and being who...
As for what you should do, “just be natural,” she advises, with which our other panelists Kelly Valentine Hendry (“Bridgerton”), Victoria Thomas (“The Mosquito Coast”), Theo Park (“Ted Lasso”) and Michael V. Nicolo (“Young Rock”) all agreed. “I’m a big champion of being yourself and being who...
- 5/28/2021
- by Joyce Eng
- Gold Derby
“Young Rock” stars Dwayne Johnson as himself as he runs for president in 2032 with weekly flashbacks to one of three periods of his life: when he was 10, 15 and a college student at the University of Miami. To say that casting three young versions of the man who would grow up to be The Rock was a huge endeavor would be an understatement.
“It was a big, big search because you’re matching the real person. So what we did is we were given some reference photos just to see what he looked like at age 10, age 15 and then his college years,” casting director Michael V. Nicolo tells Gold Derby at our Meet the Experts: TV Casting Directors panel (watch the exclusive video interview above). “And then we started the search everywhere, all over the world.”
They eventually cast three actors who did, in fact, come from around the globe. Adrian Groulx,...
“It was a big, big search because you’re matching the real person. So what we did is we were given some reference photos just to see what he looked like at age 10, age 15 and then his college years,” casting director Michael V. Nicolo tells Gold Derby at our Meet the Experts: TV Casting Directors panel (watch the exclusive video interview above). “And then we started the search everywhere, all over the world.”
They eventually cast three actors who did, in fact, come from around the globe. Adrian Groulx,...
- 5/28/2021
- by Joyce Eng
- Gold Derby
Nahnatchka Khan grew up watching wrestling legends like “The Iron Sheik” with her Iranian immigrant family on Saturday nights in the 1980s. Fast-forward to now, and the showrunner of NBC’s “Young Rock” is hoping you’ll sit down with your family and watch her adaptation of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s life on Tuesday nights.
Khan is in familiar territory, as she was also the creator and executive producer of ABC’s “Fresh Off the Boat,” another sitcom inspired by a real person. But, retelling and reimagining in a way that felt revealing for someone as well-known as “The Rock” was a unique challenge.
Ahead of the series premiere of “Young Rock,” Khan talks with Variety about those challenges, including writing and casting real-life icons.
What was the process like to sit with Dwayne and get his real-life stories to use in the script?
We had a bunch of...
Khan is in familiar territory, as she was also the creator and executive producer of ABC’s “Fresh Off the Boat,” another sitcom inspired by a real person. But, retelling and reimagining in a way that felt revealing for someone as well-known as “The Rock” was a unique challenge.
Ahead of the series premiere of “Young Rock,” Khan talks with Variety about those challenges, including writing and casting real-life icons.
What was the process like to sit with Dwayne and get his real-life stories to use in the script?
We had a bunch of...
- 2/15/2021
- by Mónica Marie Zorrilla
- Variety Film + TV
Several recently greenlit Fox comedy projects have casting directors under contract, Backstage has learned. The first, a project with the working title “Dads,” written by Alec Sulkin and Wellesley Wild and hailing from Seth MacFarland’s Fuzzy Dorr shingle, is being cast by Lisa Beach and Sarah Katzman. The project has received a strait-to-series order for six episodes. It centers on two successful 30-something roommates whose lives are upended when their dads move in with them. So far the only actor cast in the project is Brenda Song, who will play an assistant to the two protagonists. In addition to the new series, four pilots are also set to begin casting. Anya Colloff and Michael Nicolo of Cfb Casting will cast “Two Wrongs,” about a man who must convince his family that their hatred of his girlfriend isn't justified — despite the fact that she left him at the altar several years ago.
- 2/1/2013
- backstage.com
Five CBS pilots now have casting directors attached, Backstage has confirmed.The high-profile pilot for “Beverly Hills Cop,” an hour-long comedic action drama that continues the Eddie Murphy film franchise on TV, will be cast by Wendy Weidman and Rebecca Mangieri of Creative Casting. The project from “The Shield” creator Shawn Ryan stars Brandon T. Jackson as police officer Aaron Foley, the son of Murphy’s iconic character Axel Foley. Murphy is expected to make a cameo in the pilot to help launch the potential series. The shoot date and location are still to be determined, but the casting directors are based in L.A.Casting is also underway on four CBS comedy pilots. The first is “The McCarthys,” a single-camera comedy about a loud, tight-knit, sports-crazed Boston family, written by former Backstage “Comic to Watch” Brian Gallivan. Los Angeles-based casting directors Tim Payne and Lisa Ystrom, who also cast...
- 1/30/2013
- backstage.com
Two off-cycle network pilots have CDs attached Two off-cycle pilots ordered this development season now have Los Angeles-based casting directors attached. NBC's "After Hours," which focuses on a group of former Army doctors who find themselves reunited on the night shift at a Texas hospital, is set to be cast by Junie Lowry-Johnson and Libby Goldstein, of Junie Lowry-Johnson Casting. The drama, from writer/producer team Gabe Sachs and Jeff Judah, starts shooting in November in Albuquerque. Meanwhile, ABC's "Trophy Wife" will be cast by Anya Colloff and Michael Nicolo, of Cfb Casting. The comedy features a former party girl (Malin Akerman) who falls in love with a charming older man (Bradley Whitford) and must learn to deal with his three manipulative kids and two ex-wives. Marcia Gay Harden is also set to star. It starts shooting in November. There have been four off-cycle pilots ordered by the networks this season,...
- 11/1/2012
- backstage.com
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