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Question:I heard that one time and how a lot of actors just fell into it by people discovering them. Where do casting directors find these people and how do they choose who's right and all that?

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: I heard that one time and how a lot of actors just fell into it by people discovering them. Where do casting directors find these people and how do they choose who's right and all that?

They don't

My mother lived next door to Jane Murray who did all of Normal Lear's shows.

Young actors found her home and would shove pictures under the door.

She told me mother it was a shame because she couldn't do anything for them!

Producers want SAG union talent with experience.

When they look outside, it's usually a producer or director who is doing it and they are perparied to pay the fines the union will charge them for going outside the union.

Leonardo DiCaprio got cast right out of Marshall Highschool.

They looked at every boy at that school and looked at a few other schools and picked him.

They went out looking for a newcomer and it was the producer and director who knew what they wanted in a person.

The Casting Director did the job, but it was at the insistance of the producer or director.

A lot of people get work out of the comedy clubs.

All the sitcom producers make the Los Angeles Comedy Club rounds at least once a month and see who is there.

Mostly they look for new punch up artists who will be glad to work for $25 a joke to fill in the blanks of the Friend's scripts.

The pick the Friday and Saturdy kids and bring them into the writer's room on Sunday and have them punch up the script and they walk out with $200, $300.

These guys beg to be put on staff and every now and then when the producer is starting a new show, he tries one of them out as maybe the best friend and they get to be on TV full time as a comic.

Garry Marshall cast Comedy Club regular Robin Williams as Mork, a lost alien, into a Laverne and Shirley episode which served as the pilot for the series Mork and Mindy.

If the network didn't go for it that would have been it for Williams unless Marshall brought him back for an encore.

But they network went for the idea.

It should be noted, however, the SAG has jurisdiction over several of the Comedy Clubs in Los Angeles and Robin Willams, a headliner, may have already had his SAG card.

It also should be noted that the Writer's Guild works on points and when a punch up artist goes WGAW he may not be called back to do punch up because he has to be given WGAW scale instead of $25 a joke.

That's why they go find new punch up artists.

Producers are cheap.

And that's also why they don't like using non-union, they can get fined for doing that and Producer's are cheap.

It's much easier to get some actor who makes Scale ($600 a day) than to bring in a new person and get fined $2,000 on top of the $600 you have to pay them.

the blonde dude from one tree hill? yeah that guy got discovered at a modelling pageant. its not exactly the "street" but where they would find pretty people. eg. cheerleading squads. no lie, ive heard a few stories of ex cheerleaders. anyway good lucK!

This is not common, but sometimes they're searching for a particular "look."

THEY LOOK FOR PEOPLE CLOSE TO THE SCRIPT

Firstly, It is cheaper than staging a cattle call, and

Secondly on occasion they want to see a fresh face, in the street that suits their idea of what a particular person in a certain scene looks like.