NYCastings - DirectSubmit » real people https://www.nycastings.com Casting Tools for Casting Directors and On-Camera Talent Tue, 18 Feb 2025 20:20:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.2 Why does Hollywood love actors playing real people? https://www.nycastings.com/why-does-hollywood-love-actors-playing-real-people/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=why-does-hollywood-love-actors-playing-real-people https://www.nycastings.com/why-does-hollywood-love-actors-playing-real-people/#comments Tue, 18 Oct 2022 19:50:38 +0000 https://www.nycastings.com/?p=23346 It’s Oscar season again, and Austin Butler’s buzz-worthy performance in Elvis has caused me to revisit a question I ask myself every year: why does Hollywood have such an adoration for actors playing real people? In a vacuum, there’s nothing odd about Butler’s performance being praised – he did a very good job portraying the […]

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]]> https://www.nycastings.com/why-does-hollywood-love-actors-playing-real-people/feed/ 0 Creating New Skill Sets – And New Revenue Streams – With Commercial Print Work https://www.nycastings.com/modeling-4/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=modeling-4 https://www.nycastings.com/modeling-4/#comments Tue, 18 Sep 2018 20:19:12 +0000 https://www.nycastings.com/?p=14528  Actors are funny creatures.  Funny-haha? Sure. Quite often.  But let’s be real: some of us are also funny-peculiar.  Surely we all have that one actor friend who has a boatload of weird rituals and quirks that go way beyond avoiding saying “Macbeth” in a theater. Perhaps it’s just a function of working so closely with […]

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