There is a lot you can do to help yourself do well at acting auditions: whether it is being well-informed about who you are auditioning for, choosing particular audition pieces that best show off your talent, or something as simple as being relaxed and friendly to your audition panel.
What you can’t do, is be someone you actually aren’t at auditions, and in the end it won’t help you to pretend otherwise. This means, for a start, that you can afford to be selective about what auditions you go to. If, for example, you are too young for the role, it does you no good to pretend you are not.
What you can do – and it happens more often in live theatre than in film or television – is make a good case for casting the role in question against type. In other words, show your panel how the role might be played if you were cast in it.
When asked about plastic surgery, actress Kate Winslet said, ‘It makes these people, actors especially, fantasy figures for a fantasy world…acting is about being real, being honest.’ You should always remember this when preparing for auditions. However much you think you want the part, you can’t ‘pretend’ your way into it. A casting director can always spot a fake.
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