Another Pilot Season, Another Blog

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It seems like every time January and February roll around I'm writing another blog saying how difficult it is to be an actor in LA, especially during pilot season.  I'm not complaining; I love being an actor.  I even (occasionally) love how difficult it is, love feeling like a struggling artist.  (These masochistic thoughts immediately flee when I realize I want a family!)  I'm honestly just happy to have already auditioned for two pilots this year, from writers and networks I respect.  But it's also a huge bummer to get your hopes up about something or go through rounds of callbacks just to hear you didn't get the part.  That you were too tall, too funny, not funny enough, or exactly right for the part but the other guy was friends with the director.

Gavin Polone is a producer (Zombieland, Gilmore Girls) and Ellen just sent me this article he wrote a few days ago.  If you're at all interested in what goes on behind the casting director's door, please click here to read it.  It's an amazingly accurate picture, and it's really encouraging to me to hear such a prominent producer sympathize with the actor during pilot season.