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Audrey Helps Actors Podcast

Episode 116 – Casting Director Tell-All - Jessica Sherman

Audrey Helps Actors Podcast

Jesse Lumen

Performing Arts, Audreymoore, Losangeles, Business, Actress, Arts, Tv, La, Actor, Careers, Sagaftra, Film, Sag, Actors, Filmbusiness, Aftra, Acting

51.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2024

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

This week Audrey Moore talks to casting director Jessica Sherman! Jessica has cast many shows and movies including Bates Motel, Willow, and Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and she's also the founder of A Cause for Entertainment. They discuss Self-taping tips from a casting director and the impact of selftapes on casting decisions, advice on auditioning for different roles and the significance of understanding teh character, and they fake cast a live action version of Inside Out.

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Host: Audrey Moore

Producer: Jesse Lumen

Editor: Matthew Patrick Davis

Mixer: Thomas Snodgrass

Show Music: Ari de Niro

Special thanks to Thomas Snodgrass for assistance with microphones, Aalok Mehta and 108 Hill for help with the theme song.

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0:00.0

Hi everybody this is Audrey Moore with the Audrey Helps Actors

0:05.1

podcast and this is episode 116 casting director tell-all with Jessica

0:11.7

Sherman whoa with Jessica Sherman.

0:13.0

Jessica!

0:15.0

Jessica!

0:18.0

Jessica is a casting director who has worked on shows

0:21.0

in movies like Bates Motel, Willow, and Star Wars, The Force Awakens.

0:26.4

The Force isn't asleep.

0:27.5

It awakened with Jessica's help.

0:30.0

She's also the founder of A Cause for Entertainment.

0:33.2

We discuss self-taping tips from a casting director

0:36.9

and the impact of self-tapes on casting decisions,

0:40.3

advice on auditioning for different roles and the significance of understanding the character.

0:46.0

And we fake-cast a live-action version of Inside Out to give you insight into who is best for a role and why.

0:53.2

I mean a really great conversation if I do say so myself.

0:55.9

Self-tape may.

0:57.6

Congratulations to everyone who finished any tapes

1:00.7

during self-tape may.

1:02.3

Congratulations to everyone who finished 16 tapes.

1:07.8

And super-duper congratulations to the random winner

1:11.2

I'm about to announce who finished 16 tapes and who has won our

1:16.1

prize package consisting of a one-year premium subscription to casting networks a one-year

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