Auditioning Cold

Often when we conduct auditions, we have the actors come in for a "cold read". Which means that, prior to the audition, they are not given instructions or material. They just show up at the appointed place and time.

However... on Saturday, we held some auditions for background actors to be in our feature film Under Jakob's Ladder. And they were cold.

Not that the auditionees did not get the sides ahead of time. (They did). But weather-wise, it was cold.

And to make matters even more interesting, our audition room was a cold storage unit. (Not actually ON, of course!)

But the sun was shining. It was actually a beautiful day, even it was around 48 degrees outside.

Saturday's audition gave a whole new meaning to "auditioning cold"!

P.S. We saw some really good auditions... Had close to 90 people show up in the course of 3 and a half hours!