alright, so I have one month to go until I leave the Hollywood scene nd have to return back to crappy Europe. someone suggested to me I should, for fun, go to a movie audition.
I know for most you need an agent and a resume/portfolio etc, but I know there's also open casting calls. So, how do I find like a list of the open casting calls or movie auditions?

thanks

sara

look in the newspaper under classified and see if there are any listings in there, usually the more smaller budget-indie stuff has more open casting calls rather than the really huge high standard/policy auditions for "hollywood-big budget films"

good luck-

why coudlnt you pursue an acting career in Europe?

0crash

In NY there's Backstage, dunno about LA.

this is slightly off topic but i was wondering about those ads i see in the back of the weeklies for extra's. they usually pay pretty well but i called once to sign up and they wanted me to pay a 50 dollar fee, which is relatively small... but is that a norm? to have to pay to be an extra?

Aaron, you paying sounds shady...they should pay you. I was paid $40 for a day's work. I was supposed to be walking down the street, playing a pregnant teen in "A Rage In Harlem", but my scene was cut. I swear that ***** Robin Givens had something to do with it (I am kidding). Anyway, we got measured for a costume, etc. and I just sat around all day in a church waiting with other extras. I walked down a block with my fake pregnant belly and that was it. Pretty fun, but man it is a hectic business...I'd kill someone if I had to do behind-the-scene work.