Allison Jones
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard Dec 2024
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Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard · Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director) · 18 Dec 2024
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I do, depending. If you're in there for Judd or somebody, you should absolutely do that because I find myself, I'll publicly apologize to Beck Bennett now because once he came in for a pilot of Brooklyn Nine-Nine and after the audition, I said, wait, Mike, can he do it again? Because he can be better. It just came out of my mouth. Bring it way down, something like that. And then he was great.
He had chosen to make the character big and I love Beck Bennett. Yes. Get the guy a major movie and a major show. If I'm allowed to say that. And when you say Mike, you're talking about Shur? Mike Shur, yes.
That's why his shows are spectacular. Plug for the new Ted Danson show, which is spectacular. You guys are going to love it. Kristen just did a little thing on that, I think. I know. I didn't get to go to that, but I know she did a little bit. But yeah, Mike Shur is a director who's a dream because he wants to see who you are.
And he doesn't care about the words. He does ultimately, but he doesn't because you find stuff there that you would bring to it or that Beck Bennett would bring to it that is not on the page and you do need to show them who you are. And you've got to be able to do the thing. I totally get it. You have to be able to do the thing.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Or else they will say, I've had major comedy people go, he changed my line. Yeah. And I'll always be defensive of the actor. Always. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, I don't like it when they make fun of an actor. I just, I'm always defensive of the actor.
What are actors like? Because I always try to make an actor feel at home when they come in. But I realize I should ask the actor, do you just want to come in and do it and then talk?
I mean, I've always just being, I think, empathetic to actors when they come in because no matter who it's in there, it's a dead room. And coming in to audition for comedy is ridiculous. You're in a vacuum and you're trying to be funny. And they've seen it 45 times. Exactly. And it's a ridiculous task. So that's why I also think self-taping is beneficial.
That was one of my questions. That's changed. But you come in and then I should ask actors, can I say something and make a joke? I always try to just make some sort of joke or mention I just saw them in something. But I do have a feel for if they kind of just want to start.
Because what I am cut off from is I appreciate it, but how much preparation you folks have done and how you've talked yourself out of it and how you beat yourself up.
And you see the same people. Can I tell a small anecdote?
Donald Line's movie, he did a movie of Yogi Bear, which was lovely. People should discover that for their kids or put it on Netflix. And I was bringing in the greatest comedy people ever. Dan Aykroyd was willing to come in and read for Yogi Bear. He was perfect. But of course, the studio thinks they have to hear him do it, which is ridiculous. That's the other thing.
I'm like, just hire this person, but that never works. He came in and then Rob Corddry came in and he said, I have to follow Dan Aykroyd. Yeah. And I instantly was like, God, I know.
Because my generation, I was starstruck to even meet Dan Aykroyd. Yes, of course. But you see who's coming in. You came in before you. Oh, it's so rough. It's the worst. It's such a mind fuck. Yeah.
I have to cut myself off from her or else I'll just be too much jelly of sympathy.
It's how much preparation. And when they leave, it always just blows me away. Somebody who gives an incredible audition and who you can tell worked on it so hard. That is impressive. That is how you audition. Right.
From A to Z. That's very gracious of you.
Oh, some of them come in not prepared at all. Right. And then you're like, just leave. You're a jackass.
I would say, not with me, but when you're in with a big director, a big producer, doing it and saying, I didn't like that. Can I do it again?
People can do it, but sometimes... You better be fucking great that next adjustment you gave yourself.
And I think sometimes you sort of want to wait for the director to do that. Get a feel for the room. Be prepared and don't come in. And I know you can be nervous and I will try to help. Is that the camera?
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