Bernie Telsey, a veteran Casting Director Whose Credits Include the Most Recent Film Versions of Kiss of the Spider Woman and WickedSays Social Media Has Only Enhanced The Role He and His Peers Play.
“Are Casting Directors Needed Eight More So Now? YES,” He Told Deadline in An Interview. Gioven the rise of digital platforms and their ability to consistently mint Truly Global Stars, Telsey Said the Art of Matching talent to roles is “like Having to be a detective. Where should we look? In california?”
A recent example of the epic Quest to make an ideal match was the search that yielded tonatiuh, who plas part of luis molina in Kiss of the Spider Woman. “Well though he had been through the doors of the Telsey Office in the past, we didn’t really Known Him, “Telsey Said. Sometimes a sense can be gained by auditions or video reels, and” Sometimes it by look on tiktok. ”
Before deciding on the US-Born tonatiuh, “we were looking at all the Latin American Countries,” Telsey Said. With Wickedhe continued, “we were looking at every Young Woman who Said They Sang,” Whether they were from Julliard or America’s Got Talent.
Telsey, Whose Influenza is felt across theater, film and television, was honored last week at the hamstons Film Festival with inaugural Achievement in Casting Award. Along with Kiss of the Spider Woman (which is screening in the hamstons) Telsey has cast the two Wicked Movies (on Top of the Broadway Show) and Rachel Getting Marriedas well as television’s Ugly Betty and The Gilded Age. Telsey Also Remains Very Active on Broadway and in Theater World. His Company, WHICH LAUNCHED IN 1988, HAS CAST SHOWS LIKE Rent, hairspray and Hamilton, Along With Numerous National Tours, Off-Broadway Productions, and Regional Theater Across the US
Asked Whether Broadway has rebounded from the doldrums of the Covid Shutdown, he replied, “It does feel like it is back. Most important, the audience is back. are. ”
While broadway was devastated by the pandemic, film and tv faced an Eve Bigger Trial in 2023 With the Dual Strikes by the Wga and Sag-Aftra, Telsey Said.
“Now, in order to survive, you just have to work in all the mediums,” he said. SINCE The Strikes, he was on, “There’s Less Work. There Are Fewer Television Projects Being Made The Strike, Obviously With All the Corporations Owning Networks and Whatnot.”
Telsey’s Company is Sometimes Hired With the Express Assignment of Finding the Right Star to Lead a Major on Broadway, which has increasingly relied on a-list to drive ticket sales. In other caes, the remit is to uncover an unknown, or identify a bit player ready to step up to the lead spot. Several High-Profile Titles of Late, from the Next James Bond Film to The UpComing Harry Potter Series on Hbo Max, have deliberately gone after fresh faces.
“People are open to the brand new,” Telsey Said of Contemporary Audiences. “AS MANY PROJECTS I’M WORKING ON WHERE THEY WANT A NAME, AT THE SAME TIME I LIKE, ‘WHO HAVE WE NEVER SEEN? WHO HAST WORKED IN 10 YEARS? WHO HASN’T HAD SHOW BUT HAS ONLY APPORTING PLAYER?
Social Media and Tiktok Can Play A Significant Part in The Process, Telsey Said.
“We find People on Instagram All the time and that doesn’t mean they were living in ohio and untrained,” he said. “They were just someone who was unfamiliar to us. And here they are, Dancing on Instagram and it is like, ‘Oh my God, They Should Be Seen for This Dance Project We’re.’”
There’s notthing work with tapping social media as a primary source, Telsey added, “not very well that you were trained but just never got. To look at tiktok.
Speaking of Craft, The Casting Profession Got A Boost Recently when the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Said It Wold ADD AWARD at the Oscars Starting Next.
“The Emmys Have Been Doing It For More than a Decade,” Telsey Said. “Any Recognition is Exciting.”
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