Learning how good casting directors work is always a plus for upcoming actors. Here is a very interesting article on one of Hollywood’s well-known cating directors, Ros Hubbard. Very much worth the read if you are new to auditioning and the auditioning process.
Irishwoman Ros Hubbard is one of the world’s best-known casting directors, having worked on everything from The Commitments to Lord of The Rings , and discovered Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Colin Farrell. She tells Michael Dwyer the secrets of casting a movie.
AFTER MORE than 20 years as a Hollywood casting director, Ros Hubbard is set to become a familiar face on the RTÉ2 series Hollywood Trials , on a three-member jury assessing the prospects of rising and aspirant actors. In marked contrast to the judging panels on The X Factor and You’re a Star , this jury is unusually benign and considerate.
“There are no humiliations,” she says. “It’s much more like the real world. In the real world, you don’t humiliate people. You’re respectful and polite.”
Next Friday, she will be sharing her insights and experience with an audience of 12- to 19-year-olds in a masterclass at the new Cinemagic festival in Dublin. “I’ve been given such a wide range, but I’ll concentrate on audition technique,” she says. “It’s the gap in the education of actors. Most don’t know that, from the minute they walk into an audition, they’re on as soon as they appear.”
Are today’s young actors more confident than earlier generations? “Oh, yes,” she says, “and some think they’re better than older actors. Acting is instinct, and it’s God-given to begin with. All you can do is hone up that instinct. Look at Saoirse Ronan at her age.” And she cites Jonathan Rhys Meyers, who was in his mid-teens when she discovered him in a Cork pool hall while casting the David Puttnam production The War of the Buttons. click here to keep reading.
Source: Ireland.com
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