Aaron Marcus shares two auditions where he didn't match the character description, a John Goodman type and a heavy-set role. He advises confirming the casting director has seen your headshot before traveling, and explains why showing up anyway matters: they might remember you for something else on that project or down the line.
Here's another acting and modeling quick tip with me, Aaron Marcus. As you probably know, I'm normally not this dressed up when I'm doing these quick tips. I just did an online audition. I had to wear a suit, took off my tie, but anyhow, that's why I look a little bit nicer than I normally do. Hey, I just wanted to let you know, twice this week, it was kind of unusual, I had an audition for a Netflix TV show and a feature film, and for both of these characters, I seemed wrong for the part. One of the characters, they wanted a John Goodman type. He's a big guy. I don't look anything physically like John Goodman. The other one, there were references about my character. Actually, it was said to me about how heavy I am, and I'm not a heavy guy. So something that I suggest that you do is ask your agent just to make sure Uh, and ask, did the casting director see my headshot? And is that— do they still invite me to this audition? Sometimes in certain markets, agents will just, you know, send people to an audition without getting an okay from the casting director. Sometimes the casting directors just don't work that way. They'll send out the broadcast and agents will just submit people. In other markets, absolutely, the casting director will only see Uh, people that they have chosen from their headshots. So I asked the agent and he seemed, honestly, he seemed a little bit miffed. And he said, yeah, of course I sent your headshot in. And yeah, they said they wanted to see you. So after I got that, then I was more comfortable in driving, uh, over 400 miles round trip to make one of these auditions. And so the way that I always view these is that, you know, in the worst case scenario, uh, I'll do the audition. They're going to look at me. They're going to say, nah, that's, He just doesn't fit the character. But I'm hoping that they like my read, and who knows, maybe they will, you know, consider me for it. But even if they don't, maybe there's another role on this TV show. I assume there are a lot of roles on this TV show that will eventually pop up, and maybe the casting director will remember me and think of me, uh, you know, for another role that is more appropriate for my physical type. Or maybe there's another project that they're working on and they remember me and they will request me for that. So even if the character description isn't perfect, it doesn't mean that it's still not really helpful to you to go to the audition, even if it doesn't seem right to you. Anyhow, I hope this was helpful. Um, if you're watching this on Facebook, uh, please like it. If you're watching this on YouTube, give it a thumbs up. And, uh, if you have If you've ever experienced anything like this, please leave a comment. You can either go to my facebook.com/howtomodel page or you can leave a comment at the bottom here. Anyhow, I'm Aaron Marcus and if you have any questions for me, you can always reach me at howtoactandmodel.org. See you later. Bye.
