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Probably everyones sore subject due to people droping out of the shoot last minute and my shoot wasn't exception. I put out a listing on Starnow and ended up with 6 applicants (only 1 that really matched the criteria) who wanted to play Mike's role and none that wanted to play Harvey. In the end I chose a guy whose name is Zak Watson-Smith to play Mike and other guy Scott Breach to play Harvey, Scott droped out because he couldn't make it on the chosen dates because he could only do weekends and I was scheduling to film Thursday-Friday, so I posted in one performing arts group on Facebook and got an actor that could be there at least on Friday. I asked Zak to send me a video of him reading the lines which I never got (even though I reminded him about it) so now I needed another actor. To my luck a guy who played in Jess's film (Andrew Thompson) was happy to help me out with mine as well.
I decided to film the part up untill the meeting on Thursday and the rest on Friday. Thursday went well and by that point I was really excited to get this over with so I could finally get a good nights rest. Up untill the Friday morning when I woke up to find a message that a guy who was supposed to play Harvey has a really sore throat and could barely speak, so I needed to cancel everything with my cast and crew, find another actor and reschedule everything. Ended up puting out another listing on Starnow and got 2 applicants. I ended up choosing an actor that, in my opinion, could deliver the best performance based on their experience (Paul Parker) and I wasn't disappointed.
In the end eventhough it was really stressful (at one point I'm pretty sure I looked like the lady in the picture) I ended up with two really good actors that I would highly recommend to anyone else.
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