Casting Director Ros Hubbard on Auditions, Self-Tapes and More
Casting Director Ros Hubbard on Auditions, Self-Tapes and More
Ros Hubbard's advice for performers
Ros Hubbard, casting director of The Mummy, Enemy at the Gates and much more, shares her tips for auditioning actors, rehearsals, and recording a good self-tape.
Ros on Auditions
"Own the part. It's your part, you should be doing it, that's who you are, do it that way. Don't do it as an actor doing a part, do it as 'this is me, this is how I was meant to be."
On Self-taping
- Don't have a whole load of toys and silliness in the background
- Don't do too many props
- Make sure you're not in the background of a window, sit with the background of a wall or a light background
- Have a reader in, don't read in for yourself. Try and get another actor to read in. Face the person you're reading with and be real
- Own the part. If you don't own the part, you're never going to get it.
On Performers Being Off-book
"Always be off your book, even if you lose a few lines. Think it through, listen to the lines you're being fed with and you will hear the line that\s meant to come back, it'll come to you."
