On May 18, 9:43 am, "Kevin M." <[email protected]> wrote:
> Listening to the commentary track of the first Godfather movie, > Francis Ford Copalla noted that he always holds open auditions for > characters in every film he does. He feels it is a way for those > without connections, agents, etc. to get a foot in the door... to be > seen and reviewed by experts (such an audition process resulted in > Ford discovering/casting the inimitable Abe Vigoda). That may be, but a friend of mine (who will go unnamed here) is a pretty well-known actor here in the Bay Area, and was approached for a lunch meeting with Coppola about working on a new film project. This person thought it might be their big break at last, and went to the lunch eagerly. Coppola told this person that he was going to have the actor up to his winery, spend the days working on the script and characterization, have lovely home-cooked meals at night -- and then, on the weekends, his "movie star friends" would come up and take over to take advantage of all the work they had done, cutting my friend out entirely. The actor turned down the opportunity. So I'd take anything like that from Coppola with a mountain of salt. --Dave Sikula --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ TV or Not TV .... Smart (TV) People on Ice! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
