Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Waxing Moon

Saturn Retrograde

Sunny and mild

Happy Birthday Me!

Going back to yesterday’s discussion about writing for actors, I had a few questions on that, which I will try to answer.

If you write for a specific actor during the development process, unless the actor is a producer on the piece, or it’s for the actor’s company, you often don’t get the actor for the role.  Either the actor doesn’t feel it’s the right fit, or the advisors don’t think the actor should do it (and may not even tell the actor about the script) or simple scheduling conflicts.  So you (or the next writer on the project) do a major rewrite every time a different actor is interested.

It’s much easier to create the material without Imaginary Casting and then tweak it once an actor’s assigned.

Of course, some actors bring with them their own writers to rewrite their dialogue – a practice I really HATE.  If you’re good enough, you can make any good script your own without having your own people rewrite it.