“Hollywood Contraction: Actors Struggle To Find Jobs As TV Castings Dry Up” declares deadline. We get into it.
Are we all fucked? Should we find another profession? Or is everyone playing a different game?
We talk the TV revolution, Pilot Season’s last sighting, and who exactly is to blame for the near extinction of 22 episode seasons?
Also. Acting in NY vs LA, investing time/energy into things that don’t exist without us, and building a home at AF.
Then we break down Mike Leigh’s ‘Naked’ (which won best director and best actor at Cannes). And Mike Leigh’s use of improv to develop character and script.
Okay bye.
Time Codes:
2:00
A3 doesn’t exist anymore
2:50
The TV revolution
Girls, True Detective, House of Cards
4:10
True Detective’s supernatural through line
6:20
Sofia Coppola
10:00
That deadline article
11:15
When was the last time pilot season existed?
13:40
Who’s to blame for no more 22 episode seasons?
17:30
Series regulars are capped at 100k an episode oh nauuuerrrrr
19:15
Is “Peak TV” over?
20:45
Our takeaways from the article
23:40
What does being an actor mean to us.
26:00
Acting in La vs NY
28:30
We’re all living in different worlds
31:00
Building a home at Adult Film
35:40
Not putting your life on hold
37:20
Meaning. And Investing our energy into things that don’t exist without us.
40:45
Mike Leigh’s ‘Naked’ Discussion begins
And also quick tangents to Meryl Streep, ‘Sophie’s Choice’, Charlie Kaufman, ‘Bridges of Madison County’, ‘Past Lives’
46:50
Mike Leigh’s method. Using improv to develop character and script.
49:00
Using improv to understand dynamics that aren’t on the page
50:45
What stayed with us from “Naked”
57:45
Sheila O’Malley’s ‘Streetcar Named Desire’ essay