The great lesson to be learned from casting is that you won’t always get the role you wanted or expected or deserved, and you can waste your moment being resentful or disappointed about that. What you really can and should do is to make the most of the moment you’re given and play the part to the best of your ability. That’s something you can control and can always be proud of.
And really, that’s what life is about. That’s where you’re really tested, not in getting to do exactly the thing you thought would be best for you. Challenge and adaptation is where your real quality is developed and revealed. So don’t walk off the set. Don’t deprive yourself of the greatness you could have and could develop because you didn’t get the easy greatness you preferred or thought you deserved.
There are so many people vying for those great chances, those perfect roles. And each of them can go to just one person. And it might not seem fair if you aren’t perfectly placed for a certain part, but it’s also not the director’s fault. It may be their job to convey those disadvantages.
A real professional can make gold out of any part. That’s how you recognize them. They’re always the best part of whatever they’re in, even if the play or movie is terrible. When you make a movie, there’s so much that isn’t dependent on you. They’re a collaboration with hundreds of people. And you often can’t really tell what it’s going to turn out like in the end. You just hope to get into a production where the other players are really excited and passionate about doing their best.
There are some Teflon actors out there. They end up in some real turkeys, but it doesn’t hurt their reputations, because they just prove again and again why they’re so good.
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