Auditioned for "Underdogs" last Wednesday. A youth football feature filming in Canton, OH. Lillian Pyles just sighed when I walked in the door. Then she wanted to add about four or five new lines to the read (despite the fact that she sent me the scripts that very morning). "You can take a few minutes downstairs to learn them," she said.
I've been on sets (many times) when the actors don't know their lines after having had them a week. Just too busy, I guess. But five or ten minutes just isn't going to work for an old actor like me. I told her I learned the lines she sent me. "Okay fine, we'll go with what you have." Even at that, it threw the entire audition off. And she only let me read the lines once (it's been my experience that even bored casting directors generally allow for more).
I'm sure it was a waste of time for both of us.
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