Ok, so I am going to split this into three blog posts because really, each decision is so mega it needs its own planet. To start with, we had our review of the audition footage. This was enormous as we auditioned 11 actors, 1 twice, and from there we then had to pick just 2. Excrutiatingly painful. But regardless, we had to find one by the end of the day due to our already behind schedule.
We managed to narrow it down to 4. Well, 4 to begin with. 2 girls and 2 guys. All 4 were good but none were exceptional for the following reasons: One girl looked the part but had an issue with performing the variations I asked of her; the other girl didn't look the part at all but she had the experience to perform the variations; one guy looked the part but was a total nutjob; and the final guy gave us a very safe performance but he looked a little too old. General feeling at this point in time? UGH!
So we brought the expert in. Robin sat down and looked at the girls and the boys and agreed with the observations we made above. Louise then reminded us of another actor we had looked at and had found interesting but his theatre background obviously affected his performance. We then had another look at him and agreed, his theatre background was obviously going to be a problem if we chose to go with him.
So now instead of fixing the original problem, we had just thrown another person into the pot and hence made our problem bigger. However, as time went on, we finally decided, with the help of Robin that the girl who looked the part was probably the best choice for us. Robin believed that the issue with her interpretation of the role was that she attacked Grant too early on. Stacey is an intelligent, highly controlling young woman so at the beginning of the film, she needs to be calm, cool and collected and then eventually dissolve into a state of despair when she realises just how incompetent Grant actually is. I expressed my concerns to Robin that I didn't think I would be able to carry out such a big directing task but he said all I can do is try and that is what school is for which is as wise an answer you can ever get I think.
So we have the girl. Now, we had to chose from the three boys: sullen, too-old-looking safe guy, over-the-top theatre guy, or crazy, bizarre looks-the-party guy. We went through the pros and cons over and over and over until we pretty much couldn't think of any more and Robin finally said that in the end, we would be taking a gamble with all of them no matter who we chose. He did however agree that the third guy would probably be too hard to mold so we removed him from the equation. That left us with two options: go safe with the first guy or take a gamble on theatre boy.
We decided that theatre boy was our best bet. The reason for this was because in order to make the film a comedy which we did, he would probably be the best person to exuberate that comic spirit. The other guy was just too....boring. Sorry mate.
So there you have it. Theatre Boy and Nervous Girl working together to produce what will hopefully be the best film in history. Now, our next decision....
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