Many turn up for Lost casting call
When casting calls were announced to residence of Hawaii for Lost last week, did the producers even anticipate a pandemonium? The casting call required very little from those aspiring to appear on the TV show. “Everyone is open to try out” the announcement said. Apparently, hundreds of people with little or no acting background, did.
It could be because, for little or no experience, the gig pays the “actor” $759 a day! I wonder what the role calls for though? For that amount of money, it must be something requiring tedious work and isn’t just a background character.
The account on what went on during the casting call is after this cut…
From this at the Hawaii Magazine:
- I wandered over to Oahu’s Ala Wai Elementary School last Saturday to audition. No makeup. No headshot. Just a t-shirt, jeans and a baseball cap. Sure enough, hundreds of people were there, lined up against the schoolyard’s fence, snaking down the block and around the corner. The line buzzed with excitement. Beautiful women paraded around in the mid-afternoon heat in tube tops, short shorts and heels, waiting to be discovered. A mother with her small child gushed about her plans to move to Los Angeles as soon as she got the call. Jumping a little ahead of ourselves, aren’t we? After a few hours, our patience was rewarded with a invitation to the school cafeteria. A casting director there barked out orders, wrangling up the aspiring stars and starlets. For all the fanfare, the actual process was quite anticlimactic. Stand against a blank wall, hold up a number, smile and have your picture taken. That’s it. Kind of like a mug shot, only in a cafeteria…and with no food. Exciting stuff. Casting officials informed us that actual auditions would be given to folks called back in the next few months. Outside the cafeteria, a portly man who stood behind me in line slipped on his Oakley shades with Hollywood cool and pulled out his cell: “Honey, I nailed it.”
If Lost was in your area and announced a casting call, would you have gone to it, too?
By the way, production to Season 5 begins this week.
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