Owen Pryce
9 Oct 2025
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Honest answers welcome even if the answer is depressing.
Auditions & Self-Tapes
Do casting directors watch the whole tape?
4 replies
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Josh Iremonger
10 Oct 2025
Depressing answer: often no. First scene, sometimes first twenty seconds, and then a decision.
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Reeva Bhandari
11 Oct 2025
It depends enormously on the stage. Early wide search, no. Shortlist, absolutely, several times, often with other people in the room.
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Ken Vasquez
12 Oct 2025
This is why the first line matters so much and why the "warming up into it" approach fails. You do not get the runway.
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Delphine Aubert
13 Oct 2025
I work in a casting office. On a big call we might have four hundred tapes for one co-star. The math does not allow for watching all of every one, and pretending otherwise does not help anybody.
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