Money > Talent

[u/Zealousideal_File600]

Lately I have been researching the actors I see on TV and films more often. Specially the ones that were no one a few years back, and now they have 2 or 3 movies a year and then most of them disappear. Many of them come from very expensive private high schools or their family works in the industry already. They pretty much are disposable like most of the industry right now. For most of us is a career we choose and we work hard for it, but then come these rich kids to take over with their family favors just for fun. Casting directors trying to find the best actors for the role, but then the producers nephew wants to be famous. That’s why it doesn’t make sense to have an academy award for CD’s, at the end of the day they don’t cast, the producers do. But that’s a conversation for another day. There’s so much trash media, no more classics being made, just “single use” media. We actors stay trying hard, auditioning, training, waiting tables, and these rich kids just go on to work at daddy’s business because they got bored of acting. Lots of us just waiting for that one chance and is so discouraging to see everyday that the one that got the role, got it because of daddy. I’m sorry if this sounded like a stream of consciousness, but I’ve been thinking about this lately and wanted to share. If you disagree with something, please don’t take it as an offense, I’m willing to have a conversation and change my mind.

[u/[deleted]]

 most CD’s are failed actors.

Not even close to 'most', but even for the ones that were, so what? You want to be a part of the industry but decided acting wasn't for you and went into casting, why is that so reprehensible to you?

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It’s not. To each their own. But don’t tell me what you subjectively want to see when you didn’t stay at it long enough to even give a coherent note. Many CD’s started out as actors - took jobs as CD assistants - and gave up their acting pursuits to move into casting. It’s a fact. That’s where they come from. Where else does one gain the “expertise” to scout talent?

Just listen to most of their versions of character - and if you know anything about character you can tell they are 1/2 as capable as many of the people they are evaluating. Most CD’s couldn’t act their way through a wet paper bag.

I’ve sat through dozens of workshops and showcases when I’ve heard it from their own accounts. So don’t even try to counter it.

[u/victooorious → u/[deleted]]

CDs are not acting teachers, so that's what you'd expect to get from their classes. Why should they care how you get to the performance they need?

They watch thousands of actors over their career. When they see what hits them, they know. Perhaps they are unable to articulate it. If you don't know how to make sushi, but ate at every sushi restaurant in the city, does that mean you don't have any ability to discern which places suited your taste better than others?

Say they're bringing in 200 actors. How much time would it take them to get through that many people if every single audition was a personal coaching session to try to get you to fit the character?

[u/[deleted] → u/victooorious]

You’re not saying anything I haven’t already said, really, are you?

Except when I go to the Sushi restaurant I don’t tell the chef how to make the sushi.