You're not cast because you're like someone or because you're sympathetic to them. You're cast because you can act.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
If you work in casting, it's sort of not cool to want to act. A lot of people think that casting directors are frustrated actors, but it wasn't true with any of the casting people I knew.
I tend to get cast as a certain type of quiet, almost introverted person who's strong on the inside, but the characters are so very different I don't see it as any kind of typecasting.
Some directors cast you because they trust you to do the performance - but then they forget to direct you.
Sometimes it's all about the casting.
When you are cast for a role, it's because of everything that makes you who you are in that moment in time. No one else has that. That's a unique, powerful thing to hold.
I've never been someone who is cast for having a lovely figure but for whatever qualities I could possibly bring to a role, so I'm still castable.
Casting is everything. Getting the person that you imagined is this character and then seeing what they bring to it.
I've said maybe too many times that I'd rather be typecast than not cast at all.
If you don't cast well, you can be in real trouble.
When you cast, you can't cast only visually; you have to cast emotionally, too.