380. On the Job with Rikki Gimelstob, Casting Director

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Ali Feller

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4.9 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2021

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

“As much as this is your job and this is serious, there’s a lot of fun and joy in the process.”

Welcome to Season 5 of the On the Job series on the Ali on the Run Show! On this series, we hear from women who have cool, unique, interesting careers — and who also happen to be runners.

We’re kicking off this season with Rikki Gimelstob, a casting director who works on films, television shows, commercials, and theater productions. (Most recently, Rikki worked on the upcoming Dear Evan Hansen film, and the new AMC show Kevin Can F**k Himself, starring Annie Murphy of Schitt’s Creek fame!) On this episode, Rikki explains what, exactly, a casting director does. She explains how she got into the industry (it involves the opera!), and addresses whether or not what she does is actually like what we’ve all seen on Entourage. Plus, she talks about some of the craziest dressing room requests she’s seen, and shares her thoughts on diversity in the industry. (When you’re done listening, go watch this — the greatest video ever on YouTube, or anywhere.)

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0:00.0	The On The Job series on the Alley On The Run Show is brought to you by TrackSmith.
0:08.8	Welcome to The Alley On The Run Show. I'm your host Alley Feller and On The Job is back.
0:15.2	Today we are kicking off season 5 of the On The Job series where we get to hear from women who
0:21.1	have cool, unique, interesting careers. And of course, these women are all runners, so in
0:28.0	addition to hearing about what they do all day, we find out how running fits in too.
0:33.0	And today we're headed to Hollywood, well kind of. My guest today is Ricky Gimelstob.
0:39.8	Ricky is a casting director who has worked on projects including the upcoming
0:45.2	Dear Evan Hansen movie and the new AMC show Kevin Ken Goeth himself, which stars my very
0:53.2	favorite actress Annie Murphy, best known as Alexis Rose from Shits Creek. So yeah, I am now one
0:59.7	degree of separation from Annie Murphy. No big deal, it's fine, I can play it cool.
1:04.4	This conversation was so much fun. I loved learning about how Ricky got into the industry
1:09.7	and what exactly a casting director does. As she says, right off the bat, there are a lot of
1:14.7	misperceptions and she's here to clear those all up for us. Ricky got to be in the room during
1:20.0	the full cast table read of Dear Evan Hansen, her bent plat saying he sang you will be found
1:26.7	and waving through a window and everyone sobbed. And I mean, can you even imagine being in that room?
1:32.2	So if you've ever wondered how your favorite actors and actresses get cast in movies, TV shows
1:38.8	and theater productions, you're about to find out. Please join me in welcoming casting director
1:44.7	Ricky Gimelstob to the Alley on the Run Show.
1:53.2	Ricky, I am so excited to be kicking off season five of the On the Job series with you
1:59.9	here on the Alley on the Run Show. Thank you so much for doing this. Welcome to the show.
2:04.4	Thanks for having me. I'm so excited to be here. Okay, so many questions for you, so much excitement.
2:10.8	We're going to get into it. But before we do that, we start every episode of the show with what I
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