While I've been hammering away on the look of the blog, here's been a few things happening here in Wellywood circles as well. By now you will have heard that a casting call has been announced by an American casting agency.
I'm not 100% convinced that it's all correct - the Actors Call address isn't at the studio, and the Extras Call address is different from the one I was given by Peter Jackson's office a few months ago. The few people I've spoken to in the last two days tell me their agents know nothing about any of this - you'd expect Wellington's own agencies to be in the loop before the internet announcements come through?
I will be contacting some people in the next few days to see if I can verify any of this officially, and I'll drop a note here. And on Twitter, and on Facebook!
For now though,make sure you send them only copies, so you can send them again when the call comes through from a NZ channel (for instance, your agents, or the Dominion Post). Kristin Thompson from The Frodo Franchise wrote a good article about how it all went the last time, during the King Kong days.
The best strategy as always : hope for a role, expect a rejection.
Hi there,
ReplyDeleteThanks for this helpful hint. I was already wondering whether that casting call was a fake or not. Have you managed to find out a bit more about it yet?
Cheers
Heike
Heike:
ReplyDeleteI think your question was answered by my more recent post. :)
- Jack M.
PS Is "Heike" a Friesian name?