From: Barry Josephson • To: [email protected]" -cjeevacation4gmail.corn> Subject: Re: Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 17:26:53 +0000 Jeffery, I didn't get that at all from Susan. She said she just gave her the feedback she tells all the young actors that come into her. The whole auditioning process is brutal, its harsh, its filled with disappointment. All the actors revel in their success when the get it because its a very hard process. There is now way to guard from it and in order to get any part, she has to become accustomed to it. On the other hand... If I lived in new york, or if she was in Los Angeles, I could have done the fake version of an audition and gotten her on tape, but to what affect. If she worked with Susan and an acting coach she could work for me and others but the process I go through to get even the smallest part approved is multi layered so the actor that goes on tape has to nail it. When I got my own wife a small 6 line part on Bones years ago, she had do audition for the casting director, then read for the director, then producers, then her tape had to be approved by studio, and then network. The casting director was rude as her though she was the wrong 'type' and the director put her through her paces as well. Every acting teachers book or class talks about auditioning. I've been to classes where the students run out crying because of the teachers feedback. I've walked out into the hallway after auditions for my projects and often see an actor upset, crying, etc. I can set up the fake audition for her and have her loved on like crazy. The reason I set her up with Susan was to have Susan help her do as great a 'performance' as she had in her because I need a great tape to get her the part, and to get her noticed by my colleagues for other work on both shows, or other shows the studio has like Glee. Her audition for Enchanted was very green. Had she in the intervening years been to tons of classes or workshops I would have