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Aaron Marcus recounts a scheduling mix-up at an audition where he showed up on the wrong day. Instead of arguing with the casting director, he apologized and left. Always confirm audition dates in writing to avoid the same mistake.
Aaron Marcus recounts a scheduling mix-up at an audition where he showed up on the wrong day. Instead of arguing with the casting director, he apologized and left. Always confirm audition dates in writing to avoid the same mistake.
Hi, I'm Aaron Marcus, and welcome to the Acting and Modeling Quick Tips Series. Today I want to talk to you about a horrible situation I ran into with a casting director. So I got an email about an audition for a film, and the subject line just said auditions on Thursday. Got all the information, showed up, and there was nobody else there except for the casting director. I said, "Is everything okay here?" And she said, "Well, everything's fine, but the audition was Wednesday, not today on Thursday." And I looked at her. I said, "I thought in the email it said Thursday." She said, "No, it was Wednesday." And she said, "Yeah, I was kind of surprised you didn't show up." And I said, "Well, look, that's never happened to me before. I could have sworn it was on Thursday." And honestly, I didn't want to start going through my cell phone to check my emails and prove her wrong. I was pretty sure it was. on Thursday. And I just apologized. I said, I'm really sorry. I'm not sure how this happened. And when I got home, I did check and it was for Thursday. That's what she had written. So a couple of things. One is I really did not want to get into a fight. I did not want to start accusing her of being wrong. It just, it seemed like it was going to create too many problems. I liked just saying, hey, I'm really sorry. I have no idea how that happened. And that way we both left on very good terms. One thing I did learn from this, and I will always do in the future whenever I get either an email, a text, a phone call about an audition, especially if it's something I can write back to, I will confirm a date. And so if the audition is for next Tuesday, I will say, great, I will see you next Tuesday at this time. And that way I won't run into this situation again, and hopefully you will never run into that situation. If you are watching this on YouTube, please give it a thumbs up. If you're watching this on my Facebook page, Please like it. Feel free to share it with other people. And just as a reminder, if you go to my website, howtomodel.com, you can get 3 incredible acting and modeling videos there absolutely free. It will be really, really helpful to you. And if you have any questions, just go to facebook.com/howtomodel, and I am more than happy to answer them for you there. And if you have some suggestions about some quick tip questions questions that you want me to answer in another video blog, just send it my way. Looking forward to talking with you soon. I'm Aaron Marcus.
