Self-tape Audition That Booked a Recurring Role in Anatomy of a Scandal

testing is it working welcome back today I wanted to share the self tape that booked me the recurring role in anatom O candle I thought it might be interesting I like watching videos like this I honestly kind of wish there was a way to see the winning tape on every job that I audition for just so I could see what they did differently I know that wouldn't help because you just keep overthinking things or you'd see that someone did exactly the same thing that you did and you'd be like oh it was just my face but I think I'd find it helpful whenever I'm in a work shop setting and I get to watch different actors perform the same scene I always learn so much because there's hundreds of interpretations and everyone does a different thing I just find it fascinating I always get ideas for you know my next audition or the next time I get a similar scene I go oh maybe I'll try it this way I find it useful so hopefully this will be interesting SL useful to someone so I talked a bit about getting the audition through my agent and all the bits around it in my previous video so I'm not going to talk about it too much this was the character description my main takeaways from this are she's a nanny she lives in the family's home she's Eastern European the relationship is very professional her boss is accused of rape aware of a place within her family and is kind and sympathetic that is all the information I got then I read the audition scene which you're going to see in a minute and it's hard to see it now but I distinctly remember at the time that my first instinct was that there was something going on there that there was some flirty undertone I said remember that being my initial choice but I generally try not to go for my first choice because chances are most other actors auditioning for the role will also be going with that same choice if that makes sense obviously doesn't always work especially for the smaller characters where the first choice is really the only choice because the only thing your character is doing is asking the lead character if they have a reservation or something but it's good to think about alternative interpretations anyway so yeah I decided to play it a bit more innocent and friendly even if he is flirting Christine is just oblivious and is just not entertaining it in any way or choosing to interpret it as a friendly conversation with her boss hello they're not back yet uh should I make you something to eat thank you but I'm not your job Christina did you eat good idea is there more uh just the RO is Rocky Rocky Road th flavor stay I don't understand marshmallows sorry agreed they're disgusting but occasionally compelling it's always weird with the props most of the time they don't really like you to use props but I just felt like cuz we're eating ice cream I felt like I kind of needed to have the spoon otherwise it would just be weird for me so I chose to have it and I don't think it's too distracting in this case but generally don't use props just for the sake of props oh yeah originally Christina was meant to be polish so that's why her name is spelled in a Polish wayi sorry I don't understand I was thanking you in Polish wasn't that polish I don't know what that was I'm hopeless at languages absolutely no ear but seriously thank you Christina what you take such good care of the children they trust you feel safe with you I will miss them when I go back to kov what will you be studying when you go back I want to be a civil engineer I'm really interested in infrastructure never knew that about you you'll be great hi I'm violet youo I put the Slate at the end there more often than not they say they want it at the beginning if they haven't said anything I like to put it at the end and just be myself after they've already seen the character especially with the roles that are requiring an accent I never know if I should do the slate in the Eastern European accent as well or do it in my own accent I mean I try not to overthink it I do overthink it every single time but from everything I've seen from all the q&as and stuff they tell you not to stress about the Slate because it's literally just for them to see you and to find out how you pronounce your name stuff like that annoyingly I feel like I look a lot better in my tape facially than I look in the final thing but um that's probably just me being tired on my own face cuz I've seen that thing so many times I've overthought it and overanalyzed it obviously cuz that's what I do and I haven't seen this in like three and a bit years yeah yeah very interesting auditions and self tapes and castings are just so weird because having been on the other side of the casting table I can tell you that it's pretty much never you or your acting ability that doesn't get you the job one of the short films that I was a lead character in they were looking to cast an actress to blame a girlfriend and they asked me to come in for like a chemistry read audition type thing and we saw like 10 15 maybe actresses they were all great they were all amazing they all did a really good job everyone was a good actor but at the end it just came down to her hair is also long and brown so we can't really use her because she looks too similar or I don't know who don't really match up doesn't really make sense as a partnership type thing and in the end we just went with the actress who we just vibed with and we look different enough but not so different that it didn't make sense so yeah it was literally just that so the best thing to do is just do the audition and forget it existed if you booked a job it's a nice Sur prise and if you haven't booked it hopefully you've forgotten about it like I'm saying this and I'm constantly thinking about things that I didn't book but whatever you never know what the reason is sometimes they completely scrap the role sometimes they just go with someone who is a bit more blonde because the director pictured someone blonder even though wig exist sometimes the producer's niece decides that she wants to be an actress and you know it's things happen I'm sure you've heard that before but treat the audition as a job you're there to show what you can do do the prep do the work have fun with it don't agonize over it I think that audition took me like 20 minutes sometimes they say it's nice to do two completely different takes and maybe do your first choice and then like a completely crazy choice and maybe put that one first I for some reason tend to just do one unless they've specifically asked for a couple of different contrasting takes I prefer to be off book because I feel like I can focus on the acting and not need to worry about the script but I've heard casting director say it's not a memory test so you don't have to be off book if you can't if it's a last minute tape this was this was sent to me in the evening and it was due the following morning so I don't think that we're expecting anyone to be off book that's pretty much it I hopefully this was interesting hopefully you enjoyed it as I said I always like watching tapes that booked I also like watching tapes a didn't book because it makes you see sort of why something or someone was a better choice so yeah maybe I can do a video where I just show you a tape the didn't book which is a lot more vulnerable uh but might be interesting I'm going to try and find something that isn't like n or maybe something that's so old that no one's going to Care playing a risky little game with the copyright material that I keep using thank you for watching thank you for being here and I'll see you next week

Channel: Violet Verigo

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Length: 8min 3sec (483 seconds)

Published: Wed Mar 27 2024