Working: Inside the Casting Process for FX’s Reservation Dogs
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🗓️ 31 July 2022
⏱️ 49 minutes
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| 0:42.0 | I am always an advocate for the actor. I try to give them as much time as possible with the material. |
| 0:58.0 | I mean sometimes, and especially in television, it's like you move so fast. It's like, okay, we got to audition these roles and have those tapes by tomorrow. |
| 1:06.0 | You know, and it's like, that's a lot for the actors. |
| 1:12.0 | Welcome back to Working, I'm your host, Isaac Butler. |
| 1:15.0 | And I'm your other host, June Thomas. |
| 1:18.0 | June, who is that we heard at the top of the show? |
| 1:21.0 | That was Angelique Midthunder. She is a casting director who works mostly in casting indigenous roles. |
| 1:29.0 | And what made you seek out Angelique for an interview? |
| 1:32.0 | Well, there has been what you might call a blossoming of shows that focus on American Indians. |
| 1:39.0 | And that's great. And in contrast to even a decade ago, those roles are now played by indigenous actors. |
| 1:47.0 | And I've watched and enjoyed a lot of those shows. And I wondered how that boom has affected the process of casting. |
| 1:56.0 | And Angelique seemed like a really great person to talk about it with. |
| 2:00.0 | Yeah, we've really gone from famine to feast when it comes to Native American representation and particularly television. |
| 2:07.0 | And since it comes up quite a bit in this episode, for our listeners who haven't seen it, what is reservation dogs? |
| 2:15.0 | Isaac, reservation dogs is a show that you told me to watch when it first started airing. And I didn't. |
| 2:21.0 | And no, I'm so mad that I waited a year because it's absolutely fantastic. |
| 2:26.0 | It's a comedy. A very funny absurdist comedy is set on a reservation in Oklahoma. |
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