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Life Of A Casting Director

Are there busy and quiet periods during the year A lot of people ask me, is the job seasonal in anyway? Do I have busy times and quiet times? I’m very, very lucky, I’m always working. But there aren’t particularly busy times and quiet times. Hopefully the phone goes, the job come in and we...
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Becoming A Casting Director

What does a casting director do A casting director has to find a selection of people that are right for specific parts, and introduce them to the director and producer. At the same time, we have budgets. So we have to find people who are an appropriate person for that budget. There’s no point bringing...
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Working As A Casting Director

Do you work for a company I work for, fortunately, lots of different companies. The brilliant thing about being in England, we have such a fantastic selection of actors that companies from all over the world what to use actors in this country, therefore they use the casting directors over here. I work, purely on...
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