Actor Director Jessica Kelly ((Happy,,,,, Y2K) and Lisa Palasin ((Sheep’s Creek,,,,, Lost girl) Learn one or two things, about finding the right actor for the character, and in the new Prime Video Comedy series Overcompensationthey cut off their work for them. They fill with hundreds of characters and screen with thousands of works, they work closely with series creators and stars. Benito Skinner Bring the show’s unique tone and alternative characters into life.
In this interview, the actor duo discussed their collaborative process, which set the actors apart in auditions, the challenges of playing cameo in the first season series and their best skills for selfies. This interview has been edited in detail. For the full interview, please watch the video above or check out our YouTube page.
The actors are perfect. It reminds me of Freaks and geeks To some extent.
Jessica Kelly: Thanks. Yes, finally, I had to see it yesterday. marvelous. It even exceeded already high expectations.
Apart from Benito Skinner, are you relying on others before you come? I think Mary Beth Barone because they are podcast partners.
Jessica Kelly: No, just Benny. I mean, he always thought about Mary Beth, but I think everyone with a new show wants to make sure every itch is scratched, but we all know it will be her because it was written for her.
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Did he participate in any actors?
Jessica Kelly: Benny each [audition] And read with all the actors. Once I handed over the baton, Lisa took over the rest of the cast.
Lisa Palasin: He is so great that everyone loves him. I mean, when they find out they are going to read with him, they are jumping for joy. They were so happy that he was kind and kind to every actor. If they have a line or have 30 lines, he is so kind.
Jessica Kelly: All of this extends throughout the shooting. I think this is a good thing for the actors. Like, you don’t have to be the first day on the call sheet. Just like he is creating it, he is writing, he is making, he is making sure everything is there and can do it in such a great spirit. It will only attract the best.
Lisa Palasin: He had a lot of stuff on his plate and he really just made some time for everyone. Really good. I think it’s special.
I know if I come in and read and find him reading with me, my thoughts will be shocked.
Lisa Palasin: They are. They really are.
I cast it, and I thought of more than a hundred people. Jess plays all the movie stars, and that’s so much, and its readings really look like celebrities when you look at the cast list. It’s really impressive. I am charming. There are also many guest appearances throughout the series.
Didi Conn. Whenever I see her pop up, I smile immediately. She is so awesome.
Jessica Kelly: She is so cute, isn’t she?
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Are any actors you audition different from a role you never thought of? To the point where you can’t imagine someone else playing that person?
Jessica Kelly: More when someone switches it to a different tone. I think a lot of people are like “Oh, comedy” when reading, and there isn’t a lot of truth. Those parts that feel like they have to pump, either it works or it doesn’t work at all. It has this truth and humor and unique way of using words or thoughts.
Where is Holmes? She is very interesting.
Jessica Kelly: so good. OMG. Every line, every scene is always different because she will just throw things there and we will die. It’s the best casting process because she just created a lot. She read a lot of parts. We were like, “She had to go to the show.”
Her line readings are sometimes so unexpected, but so great.
Jessica Kelly: Very good. And I think she keeps fresh every time because when we have to call back so many times you get tired of hearing the same scenes over and over again, which is really real to her. I don’t know how her mind works quickly.
How the casting process begins: From scripting to audition
How do you even start acting in a new show? I think someone has a big box filled with different puzzles, and you have to find the right pieces to go together.
Lisa Palasin: It always starts with scripts. You read the script and then start to imagine people, usually the person I imagined at first was never the one who ended up getting the parts.
Then when you start auditioning, you hear the lines you are reading and the differences that each person makes, and you watch thousands of readings readings that are reading the same section, you really start to really understand what is interesting.
Comedy is so hard, it is so subjective. So you really have to read so many people to really find the perfect person.
Jessica Kelly: I have about 6,000 to 8,000 positions. It did take two weeks because you don’t have to come up with a name, which is very rare. So here, you want to make sure you do due diligence anywhere. The number of people we see is amazing, and there are actually only a few really special people who are part of it.
Lisa Palasin: But if you don’t have the chance to read all of these people, you’ll never find that, which is actually what you need, it’s just combing. I don’t know you have thousands, it’s scary.
Jessica Kelly: This is indeed the craziest number of submissions I’ve ever seen. This is the strike that just stood out, and is also very young, hip, Benny and A24. I was just completely bombarded.
Why many actors make the same audition choice
What is the proportion of actors auditioning in the same way among thousands of submissions? Have you seen the same thing over and over again, and then one person or a group of people do something completely different?
Jessica Kelly: Yes, it makes a lot of sense to me. I mean, I might read it in the way a lot of people read it because these days it is so scary and you are trying to get any information possible. No one who does this in this way has taken any action against any more traditional person. If you can tell they are unique and have humor, it’s easy to solve. Therefore, we have no objection to them. If you can never penetrate the wall like a big comedy without a heart, it won’t be a show.
The trick to recruiting a series of regulars is that you have to live through them. You have to know that they are as much internally as they are externally.
Lisa Palasin: You want them to be at home every day. You have to accept them into your home, so you really have to like them.
What makes the actors memorable even if they don’t book the role
What makes the actors memorable to you, even if they aren’t suitable for the part they just auditioned for?
Lisa Palasin: As Jess said, we see thousands of people reading the same lines, most of them doing the same way, but there will always be one or five or six people standing out and doing different ways. They just have their own style. They have their own particularity, their own shining. It just makes you say, “Wow.”
I don’t know if it’s a confident thing or just something different that caught your attention after all these readings, but some people just bring it with them, and that’s part of it and you only know it for the second second. I think this is undecided quality.
Jessica Kelly: I think people who naturally have compassion for others, you can feel that they have really experienced this person’s experience and give up on their own self. That’s something I don’t like, “Looking at me, I’m so funny. I’m good at acting.” I like having to move forward, like, “What’s going on here? Who is this guy? That’s definitely the actor I like. They can be very, very simple and not much, and I know a lot of things happening.
For self-painting, what information or suggestions do you want to go out there?
Lisa Palasin: Mine is just knowing your lines. Please know your lines because when I look at the self-tape, someone is struggling with their lines, they don’t remember them, and then they grab their paper, like you have a shot to send that tape that you can be at home a hundred times. Just make sure your stuff is.
Jessica Kelly: I would say that starting is indeed the most important thing. The first few words. So give yourself at least a moment before and then make sure the first part is still alive. If there is death of lines and you build from there, there is something like, “Oh, this guy is in that moment.”
Lisa Palasin: Yes, I think that’s great. Your first impression is very meaningful.
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