02 - Tristesse

Dead Eyes

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Dead Eyes, Band Of Brothers, Fired, Personal Journals, Connor Ratliff, Casting, Auditioning, Tv & Film, Tom Hanks, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.8 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

A 10-year-old Connor acts onstage in a 1985 production of Oliver! and has a seemingly disastrous first television interview. Years later, a 17-year-old Connor stars in a production of Ordinary People across from Emmy-winning actor Jon Hamm (Mad Men, The Town, Baby Driver), who was a senior in college at the time.

Connor and Jon look back on their time working together and recount their highs and lows in various audition rooms.

Plus, a recreation of Connor's Band of Brothers re-audition scene featuring Nicole Drespel (UCB, Broad City, 30 Rock), and a candid conversation about the audition process with a real New York City casting director.

See 10-year-old Connor's appearance on KRCG-TV's Showtime.

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0:00.0	This is a headgum original.
0:05.0	Should we just start talking?
0:08.0	Is that how this works or?
0:10.0	It's your show.
0:11.0	Yeah.
0:12.0	Make sure where they're recording. When I was 17 years old I was in a
0:15.2	production of ordinary people in Columbia, Missouri. One of the actors that I worked with was a
0:20.5	senior in college there. John Ham.
0:24.0	Hi, John.
0:25.0	Hi.
0:26.0	How old were you when we did that play?
0:28.0	In 92, I would have been 21.
0:30.0	21. You seemed so much older to me at the time.
0:32.8	Yes, when you were 19 years old?
0:36.1	I was 17 years.
0:37.1	17.
0:38.1	And like our scenes were all just like looking into each other's souls kind of we were we were making a lot of
0:44.8	eye contact well there were there were two handers basically it was a one-on-one kind of
0:50.3	kind of
0:56.0	whether my eyes ever looked dead
1:00.1	I will say this you were playing a heavily medicated
1:08.4	You know depressed teen so if they did that was on character it was a choice you made a great choice I don't know what to tell you it it made a great choice. This is Dead Eyes, a podcast about one actor's quest to find out why Tom Hanks fired him from a small
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