28/06/06 - ADAM SANDLER? WTF?!
Small glitch on casting today. Two potential cast members who have been good before decided to pull out, or rather not want to be in it in the first place. This would normally be fine if one of the two had just said so. Instead they decided to go around the houses with various excuses and false reasoning which is time wasted. The peak of which was an attack on the content of the piece, stating that for them the central character and style would not hold up to the 3 episodes we had planned, that the humour was not right for them (that's ok!), and that the show was similar to a shitty Adam Sandler film....which it just happens to be NOTHING like!
I don't mind at all someone discussing or constructive criticising the character or role, or even just plain saying no....I am not easily offended and would move on....but to criticize the whole film and my writing was a little too much for me. As always, I wanted to control and prodcutively use this frustration and dissapointment (I would have liked them both in it!).
So we all agreed that we don't even discuss the matter with them. While they were finishing the umming and erring...we made the decision to cut them out anyway! The biggest joke in this?....one of them had not even read it! So they were commenting on it based on some comments made by the other?! Read the damn script if you are gonna shoot it down! Crazy!
This is what they were looking for anyhow, just not knowing how to really say it.
Furthermore, the decision was kind of made not to approach them for future parts either, even though they are friends of Lee's. Not that may seem harsh but let me explain the reasoning.
We want enthusiastic people! People are working for FREE in front and behind the camera for fucks sake so the paramount thing should be that everyone have some fun! We have some awesome people involved and don't want nay-sayers, time wasters, partly commital, critical, or out-of-line people creating bad atmospheres of doubt or uncertainty.
So we moved on very quickly! The most amazing aspect of this is that they could not see what a really fun project this was, and did not appear to be grateful of the fact that something we were going to spend a passionate amount of time on, AND to push to production companies for broadcast again was going to include them! What an oppotunity to umm and err over!
You have enough to do to get your cool project going without such slow moving obstacles. In other words film fans....if you have anyone slowing the process or casting ANY doubt...no matter who they are or how much you wanted them.....fuck em!
You don't need em. You need the cool people who really WANT to do it!
Further point of note; we filled their roles in a matter of hours. Two other potential cast members who were non-actors and were lined up for a smaller role, but were HIGHLY enthusiastic about the project got bumped up to bigger speaking roles. So all we have to do now is fill their original roles with some of the other enthusiastic people. On that we have many options. So again, enthusiasm rewarded! Onwards!
I don't mind at all someone discussing or constructive criticising the character or role, or even just plain saying no....I am not easily offended and would move on....but to criticize the whole film and my writing was a little too much for me. As always, I wanted to control and prodcutively use this frustration and dissapointment (I would have liked them both in it!).
So we all agreed that we don't even discuss the matter with them. While they were finishing the umming and erring...we made the decision to cut them out anyway! The biggest joke in this?....one of them had not even read it! So they were commenting on it based on some comments made by the other?! Read the damn script if you are gonna shoot it down! Crazy!
This is what they were looking for anyhow, just not knowing how to really say it.
Furthermore, the decision was kind of made not to approach them for future parts either, even though they are friends of Lee's. Not that may seem harsh but let me explain the reasoning.
We want enthusiastic people! People are working for FREE in front and behind the camera for fucks sake so the paramount thing should be that everyone have some fun! We have some awesome people involved and don't want nay-sayers, time wasters, partly commital, critical, or out-of-line people creating bad atmospheres of doubt or uncertainty.
So we moved on very quickly! The most amazing aspect of this is that they could not see what a really fun project this was, and did not appear to be grateful of the fact that something we were going to spend a passionate amount of time on, AND to push to production companies for broadcast again was going to include them! What an oppotunity to umm and err over!
You have enough to do to get your cool project going without such slow moving obstacles. In other words film fans....if you have anyone slowing the process or casting ANY doubt...no matter who they are or how much you wanted them.....fuck em!
You don't need em. You need the cool people who really WANT to do it!
Further point of note; we filled their roles in a matter of hours. Two other potential cast members who were non-actors and were lined up for a smaller role, but were HIGHLY enthusiastic about the project got bumped up to bigger speaking roles. So all we have to do now is fill their original roles with some of the other enthusiastic people. On that we have many options. So again, enthusiasm rewarded! Onwards!
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