Actors: YOU are what makes your self-tape interesting. If you erase your own point of view, personality, life experience, etc. then your tape is going to feel two-dimensional. Allow your uniqueness to filter into your choices, (within the tone of the piece.) #CastingLovesYou

Recently I cast a role where I received SEVERAL tapes that may as well have been carbon copies of each other. The actors didn& #39;t do anything wrong - they hit every beat on the page. But they didn& #39;t allow themselves to enter into the equation which resulted in near-identical tapes.

Again, they followed directions, they paid attention to every bit of the page (including stage directions,) they just didn& #39;t try to connect what was in the sides to their own experience/point of view.

The actor who got the role didn& #39;t remotely have the same life experience as the character, but she didn& #39;t allow that to stop her from connecting more deeply to what the character was experiencing/feeling. Her tape was instantly interesting, from her first moment.

You don& #39;t have to match a character& #39;s experience to be able to connect with them. You simply have to do the work to understand what they& #39;ve gone through, what their relationship is to the person they& #39;re talking to, etc. and make sense of it in your own head/body. And then let go!