"When you audition," says actor Sarah-Jane Casey, "that's a time for you to get out there and turn it into an experience of actually living inside the role, whether you get it or not. And my experience is, whenever I put that work in, that's when I get the part."So before she auditioned for the short film "Sea Legs" this summer, after seeing the casting notice on BackStage.com, the Screen Actors Guild member had already imagined and written the autobiography for the lead character Miss Mermaid, an Atlantic City showgirl past her prime who loses her job and befriends a 9-year-old boy who is lost on the boardwalk."I'd recommend the stuff she did on her own, before her audition, to anyone," says "Sea Legs" writer-director Amanda Rosa. "No matter how simple you think a character is, you should always think about who they are and where they came from,...
- 10/4/2010
- backstage.com
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