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Depending on the prestige of the role, casting calls may go out to the public at large (typical for Community Theatre ), to professional and semi-professional local actors (for supporting roles in Theatre and Film ) or to specifically selected actors (for leading roles, especially in films).
However, especially for major productions, the process of selecting candidates for sometimes hundreds of parts and poossily thousands of extras may often require specialised staff; while the last word remains with the people in artistic and production charge, a Casting director may be in charge of most of the daily work envolved in this recruiting process during Pre-production . Some of them building an impressive career, e.g. working on numerous ambitious Hollywood productions, such as Mira Sorvino , Mary Jo Slater and Rick Millikan . At least in the early stages and for extras, casting may be decentralized geographically, often in conjunction with actual shooting planned in different states, e.g. in Hollywood or New York (studio) and one or more exotic locations (e.g. Hawai, the Far East) and/or budget locations, e.g. Canada, Ireland. Another reason may be tapping in to each home market in the case of an international co-production. However for the top parts, the choice of one or more celebrities, whose presence is of enormous commercial importance, may rather follow strictly personal channels, e.g. direct contact with the director.
The industry is contentious, with frequent discontent arising from charges of nepotism, Stereotyping , and bigotry. SEE ALSO
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