Allison Jones

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Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard · Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director) · 18 Dec 2024 podcast

Or Funny Enough. Both, by the way, wickedly funny. Elizabeth does a lot of comedies, but Amy needs to get back to some good comedy because she's wickedly funny. She needs to just have some fun, maybe. Yeah. For a few months. I'm sure she would like to. Comedy is a little bit in a coma now these days. It's not a great time. So not many opportunities. Brie Larson is who I was going to mention. Oh!

Was never, I mean, this is a gorgeous, talented girl. And she was never good enough for a studio to approve her. They just didn't think she was the leading lady. And then, boom, an Academy Award later and all kinds of stuff. Yeah, that I do love.

Wait a minute, you're approving Seth Rogen and you're passing on these people.

I try never to go there because once I said you're wrong to somebody and I got screamed at. Don't you tell me I am wrong.

Don't you ever say I'm wrong and I'm not wrong. I've never been wrong. And by the way, he was dead wrong.

And that actor became a huge star. Yeah.

Casting directors fight, fight, fight so much for actors. I brought this up recently. I wish actors could appreciate how much we do fight for them.

You can tell when certain people are annoying in the room when they're auditioning that they're maybe a little rough on the director. Directors can tell that too. Somebody will read and ask questions or ask the wrong questions. The way you can read people in general, even though somebody who waits on you at McDonald's is like that little prick. I bet she's a great mom. Exactly.

The way you can read people, it's just a people reading thing. And yes, I do believe I have instincts for that. Though in terms of behavior in the past, I don't ever repeat it unless I've seen it or it's been on a movie that I've worked on. Like somebody will say, don't ever hire that actor. They're difficult. Yeah. I want to make sure it's accurate.

So many actors get a bad rap because they didn't get on with the director or a producer and it's actually the director who is the problem. Yeah. It happens so much to women. Yes.

This woman is difficult and come on, you know.

And then you hear the director's name. It's like, come on. Right. Women still do not have a leg up.

I'll never work again. All the casting executives, the levels of people that we have to go through. Right. And the levels of people that we have to CC and update.

I'm talking about in a studio or film television. There's so many levels and it really throws me off my game. And this has been for decades, frankly. In casting, you need, like what we're doing now, we're tracing people back for 30 years.

We need to do that in our brains. And if you're constantly concerned, as I am, about, oh my God, I forgot to put a name on a list. Oh my God, this person thought of this person. Oh my God, this person's cousin wants to be seen. Oh my God, this person's manager asked me to see this person. You have absolutely the shortest synapses you could possibly have.

You lose that long-term thinking of, who is this person I loved in that show? show and I can't remember who it was. That's what I want to spend my brain power on. And we are exhausted by the end of the day. And that is the only time we have to do it. It's so much more difficult now to actually be creative.

Only if you know it's okay. Do a little bit of research. People see me and they think I can improvise, but I will say, okay, this one... You know, because some actors will do it. All these beautiful comics, most of the time they come up with funnier stuff than is on the page. People like Jed Apatow and Paul Feig and Mitch Hurwitz and Adam McKay, they appreciate that.

They want that. Larry David wants that. But I will warn them before coming in or tell their agent, and I pray to God the agent tells the manager who tells the assistant who tells the assistant who tells the assistant to the actor to the actor. Ha, ha, ha. Don't improv.

Right. There is a line between comedy people who want to hear every line they write and comedy people who don't care. And they say, you can't make a wrong step. Just do whatever you want. So you should ask. Okay.

Okay. Otherwise, they'll think you can't do the thing. Right.

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