Beware: The 3 Words Actors Never Want to Hear From Casting

Beware, actors never want to hear these 3 words from casting. Also, if you watch this to the end, which you should, you will get a link to a great bonus video. It's all about beware, bad things do happen on sets, and this happened to me, and I want to share that with you. Okay, let's get started. Hi, I'm Aaron Marcus, and welcome to the Acting and Modeling Quick Tips channel and the Actor Career Center. So in this video, I'm going to be talking in more detail about the 3 words you never want to hear from a casting director. Let me, let me first, first state that, uh, I know I'm dressed a little unusual for this. Uh, I just finished auditioning for a feature film. I didn't feel like changing, so I thought I'd just stay in this Kind of a weird character look. But anyhow, look, I want to make sure this— I just want to make this really, really clear. Casting directors, they like actors. Yeah, I've run into a couple who aren't always so kind, but they still want— it's a good business relationship for them because without great actors, they're not getting work. And I guess the other thing, it's a little bit weird, but I'm just going to say it anyway. I have found that within the industry and outside the industry, I generally don't trust what people have to say to me. And that could be good or bad things. When, you know, people say you're horrible, Now, it's not nice to hear, but I don't take it personally. When people say you're fantastic, well, that's much nicer to hear, but I always filter everything, and there's really more that I gauge how I'm affected by those comments by. So I have found that when I go into An audition and the kid— now look, certainly for me, I can just tell you most of my auditions are still home auditions, but some people are starting to go in more and casting directors are opening up their door a little bit more now than they used to. So if you ever hear these words, which is what I've heard, you finish the audition and they say, you were great. I loved it. You were phenomenal. Typically what I find— and, and I'm gonna give you a little caveat to this— generally I find those are the jobs I don't get. Normally the jobs that I booked, finished the audition, thanks, next. That's, that's normally the way I've had success. Of course there are exceptions, but I want to share something with you. That once again is based on a real experience. And I was at an audition, and it was a small area, and you could actually hear the other people auditioning, and you could hear the responses. At the end of every single audition, the director who was present would say, that was great, really liked it. Are you available these dates? And when I got finished, he just said, okay, next. And I just thought, yeah, I don't know, maybe, maybe there's something good from this. I don't know. But he was really praising everybody else. As it turns out, I booked the job. And, and after I finished, everything went well. I was very happy with what I did. He seemed very happy. I walked over to him just because I was just really curious. It's not like I needed my ego stroked or anything. I was just curious. And I said, hey, I was just wondering, I know like every person auditioned, you said how much they liked it, you liked it, and whether they're available, the dates of the shoot. I said, you didn't ask me if I was available. And he looked at me and he said, I didn't? Because I don't know why I didn't, because I liked your audition. So I don't know if sometimes casting directors, it's like they know you might have just traveled a long distance, you spent a day preparing or a couple days preparing, and they know you're not going to get the role and they just want to say something nice to you and to try to make you feel a little bit better. I don't know if that's why they praise you, but the other thing too is, and I do have to say this all Seriously. Seriously, is that, look, when they said they really liked it, it's possible they really did. And, and as many of you know who, who watch this Quick Tip video series, there's so many factors that go into booking the job, not booking the job, that the chances of getting it are, are really pretty slim. And it doesn't come down to, you know, Who is the best? Who gives the best read? It's not the Olympics. It's not who scores a 10. It's who fits the role the best. Of course you have to be good. And even like the audition I just did a couple minutes ago, I don't think I'm going to get it because that's just how I feel after every audition. I like what I did. I thought it was interesting. But personally, I don't think I'm right for the part. I don't think I'm the right age. I don't know that I have the right look for it. I kind of Can envision what the person will look like who books it. So I really don't think I'm going to get it. It was fun, I enjoyed it. So I guess the key thing is whenever you hear anything in the industry, whether it's a casting director, whether it's director, who knows who it might be coming from, you've got to filter everything. You really do, because people say all kinds of weird things. To people. And it's easy for us to feel paranoid. You do a take, okay, hey, let's do that again, and all of a sudden you start thinking, oh my goodness, they hated what I did, they're going to fire me in a second. Once again, I think that's just my own craziness, and that's where I have gone in the past. And there's still a little bit That's still there even, you know, I've done almost 1,300 jobs, but sometimes that's still there a little bit, I have to admit. So anyway, I just wanted to share that with you. And whatever you hear or don't hear from the casting director, I'm telling you, don't, don't take it in. You really shouldn't, because you really have no idea what it means, whether they really loved it, whether they didn't love it. If they didn't say anything positive, maybe they're thinking Oh boy, this, this audition was fantastic, and now I have to sit here through another, you know, day of watching people. This is the person who I want. Who knows? Don't try to read people's brains. So I just quickly wanted to share that with you. If you have any experience with getting comments, good or bad, and then finding out what the results actually are, please share them with us on the Acting and Modeling Quick Tips channel. So We can learn from you as well. If you haven't done this yet, subscribe, click the notification bell so you always know when a new video has been uploaded, and if you like it, give it a thumbs up because that's always helpful. And share, share the link with your fellow actors. I did say I was going to share the link to a really special bonus video. You'll see it right up here. And it's true, bad things Can happen to people on sets, and this one happened to me. And so I hope you learned from that and share that one as well. I'm Aaron Marcus, and I can't wait to talk with you again soon. See ya. See ya.