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The audition process for a major role requires extensive preparation, including working with coaches and engaging in multiple rounds of testing, to earn the part.
“I know this has to be earned so when they start seeing people can I please go in I'll do anything and I worked really hard with a vocal coach and an acting coach to get ready”
Variety · Dec 2024 · 1 episode · 2.0M views on this topicThe pressure-free environment of being a reader in an audition room is beneficial because it allows for a more natural and relaxed performance.
“it's what you were saying if it was kind of a perfect situation because I it wasn't an audition so I didn't really need to learn the lines which meant that the pressure was off so I kind of did yes and also I managed to remember them which was great cuz the pressure was off”
Variety · Jun 2024 · 1 episode · 425K views on this topicAuditioning is a soul-sucking and awful process that should be avoided if possible.
“Yes. Auditioning is awful. If there were a better way I'm sure someone would have thought of it, but it's soul-sucking. It's really rough.”
The Adam Friedland Show · Nov 2025 · 1 episode · 273K views on this topicShe views auditions as valuable opportunities to act and learn rather than just as tools for booking work.
“I really started to enjoy the audition at certain points yeah sometimes it's very hard of course but yeah just to think that the audition is the thing when it's an opportunity to act to learn”
Variety · Jun 2024 · 1 episode · 222K views on this topicPositions are extracted from transcripts by a model and may misattribute who said what. Every quote links to the episode it came from.