| I was just about to get started on the follow-up | | | | fourth etc, etc. |
| to What To Wear? What To Wear? and tell | | | | I subtly grabbed my cardigan off the bench and |
| everyone what I've been told to wear to a | | | | eased into it just as my name was called to meet |
| call-back. But just before I did, I went to my very | | | | the directors and prayed they wouldn't notice my |
| own callback and and had a bomb dropped on me. | | | | t-shirts repeat-performance... |
| Well... That's a tad more credit than the situation | | | | The point of this posting is to help you understand |
| deserves. But... What's an acting blog without a | | | | what to wear to your callback. I have been told |
| little drama, right? (yuck - barf-bags are in the | | | | again, and again, to wear the same thing. But, |
| pocket of the seat-back in front of you). | | | | obviously, there are other schools of thought. |
| One of the Casting Directors was hanging out in | | | | Wear the same thing? Wear something different? |
| the hallway with us actor-folk as we waited | | | | I think the key from today's experience is that its |
| patiently to be brought into the audition. One of | | | | mostly important that you look like the same |
| said actors waiting made an embarrassed | | | | person who was at the original audition. The |
| comment about how he hadn't realized that he'd | | | | directors and producers called you back because |
| worn the same thing to the first audition. Now, I | | | | of how you looked and performed in the first |
| was just about to console him and say with pride | | | | audition, so it's in our best interest to give them |
| that I'd heard you were supposed to wear the | | | | that same package again since they've literally |
| same outfit and that he was just fine when the | | | | re-ordered it for another look. In addition, if some |
| CD said with a chuckle "Oh! You're like one of | | | | directors have had an adverse reaction to seeing |
| those actors who thinks he's supposed to wear | | | | an actor in the same outfit there is a potential |
| the same thing to a callback because that's what | | | | strike against us before we even speak. And we |
| your agent or teacher told you..!!" followed by | | | | need those directors to be thinking of nothing but |
| "Man! I've seen some directors actually laugh at | | | | how great we are - we need all the help we can |
| seeing an actor show up looking identical to the | | | | get in those stuffy little rooms. So, while I respect |
| first audition." | | | | the opinions of the folk who have told me |
| There I was, shifting uneasily with my fellow | | | | previously to do one thing, I am going to go with |
| actors and chuckling along as he continued to tell | | | | Mr. CD: WEAR SOMETHING DIFFERENT. |
| us that it was a moronic notion. Oh. Did I mention | | | | But, let's also remember to look like the same |
| that I was dressed in the same outfit as my first | | | | person (I know that sounds weird, but we can |
| audition? | | | | look VERY different in a suit versus a T-shirt and |
| I cried out pitifully that I'd heard that same advice, | | | | jeans versus evening-wear). If you had your hair |
| to which he answered gently that it was merely | | | | up before, it's probably a good idea to wear it up |
| important that I just look like the same person | | | | again. If you were sporting some stubble, don't |
| who had auditioned before and that nothing be | | | | shave before the audition if possible. |
| drastically different. Don't change the hair too | | | | This topic is wide-open for interpretation and I'm |
| much; If you wore casual to the first audition, it's | | | | sure there are plenty of other opinions out there, |
| probably wise to wear it to the second/third | | | | so I welcome feedback from the field! |