Casting for topless role?

Capt Quirk said:
Hey, MILFs are in vogue these days :)
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woo hoo you mean there is still hope for an old broad? tee hee....problem is we are in vogue and if one more 22 year old tries to bed me down i will just scream. no offense to the young guys but no matter what you think you know...you don't...not yet.

besides..i have a rule i follow on that even if half of hollywood does not

"If it could of come out of me it can't get back in" Michele Seidman
 
Michele,

You are in good company. I think it is safe to assume most of our love lives here are severely lacking.
 
Wow, had not checked this thread for a few days. Thanks for all the replies. Casting is tomorrow and I have a sweet high rise board room where it is taking place. I will have two female casting assistants in the room with me during the auditions. I have emailed every interested actress about the whole topless thing and what to expect.

Suits and ties and professionalism as best we can. Now I just hope the turnout is good. Would hate to be stuck with the 1 girl who showed up the entire 8 hours.

I imagine after going through the first 1-2 girls it should become much easier. I'll report back how it all went.
 
Mattykins said:
Michele,

You are in good company. I think it is safe to assume most of our love lives here are severely lacking.
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HAHA, no kidding. That's about right. I am in love with filmmaking, and let me tell you she is one controlling, uptight, judgmental witch. I can't get out for one night without her making me pay for it ;)

The last page was priceless. lol, oh man....

As for nudity in films, I have a slightly different opinion on sex and violence. I got my opinion largely from my college film teacher, who made a good point. His argument is there is no such thing as "gratuitous" sex and violence because film is a visual medium, and people like to see both, so you can't have too much of it. By definition it's impossible, in his mind. I'm not that extreme, but I think it's a good argument in the sense that it's not just about storytelling, it's about storytelling with visuals. I want to see hot actresses' boobs, who doesn't?! So if you show me, I'm probably going to be more likely to see your movie. I can guarantee if Jessica Alba had a movie come out where I got to see boobs, I'm going to go see it, even though I think she's a shoddy actress most of the time. Actually she was pretty good in Dark Angel, she's pretty bad in quite a bit else.

Just because you're 35, 45, 55, or whatever, if you're a guy you're not above wanting to see hot girls. My dad is single, he's 66, he loves hot, young girls. Doesn't matter if he's 66, he likes the same type of hot girls he liked when he was 40 years younger. I don't blame him, I'd be the same way. I can only hope I'm still a player when I'm 66, though, haha.

Did seeing Halle Berry's boobs in Swordfish enhance the story? No, but it was eye candy, and there's nothing wrong with that in movies. These aren't novels. They're movies. Much of what I do in a music video is just eye candy, and there's no reason you wouldn't have plenty of that in any form of visual medium. So yeah, seeing a girl's boobs is great, and will sell tickets, and will sell DVDs. It's only natural.

I bought that movie The Dreamers with Eva Green because of her role in Bond and I knew she was totally nude in that film. I saw it, I think it's one messed up, lame film, but still Eva Green is totally nude in it and she's hot. So that was good enough for me.
 
Mattykins said:
Michele,

You are in good company. I think it is safe to assume most of our love lives here are severely lacking.
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Hence us being here together all the time...lol

ot444 said:
I imagine after going through the first 1-2 girls it should become much easier. I'll report back how it all went.
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Keep us posted. We will be waiting for the funny behind the scenes reactions (no names to protect the innocent or topless)

JonathanLB said:
HAHA, no kidding. That's about right. I am in love with filmmaking, and let me tell you she is one controlling, uptight, judgmental witch. I can't get out for one night without her making me pay for it ;)
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A cruel mistress she is!

Capt Quirk said:
Hmmm... maybe you just need to have a good reel, like when you are a film maker, editor, or actor. References are everything, ya know?
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Are you offering to shoot one or should I just get all the ex's who call and tell me they miss 'it' to put it on tape and edit it to under 2 minutes? not sure if i can get all the testimonials down short enough for that....

tee hee
 
Michele Seidman said:
ahhhh...if only my love life was as good as the flirting in here!

sighhh...
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We're in love with our craft and our art... or at least that's what I tell myself in order to justify the time spent behind my camera and in front of my PC.

Thanks for brightening up the forum Michele.

I enjoyed the Michele and the Midnight Blues footage on Youtube.
 
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Ok casting all done. MUCH smaller turnout than expected. Even after many confirmations and interest, only a handful showed up.

Even had one girl show up saying she knew nothing about it being topless. This being her second audition for me where I have her on the first tape saying "no problem to toplessness" Not to mention I had a detailed section on what the nudity included with the emails I sent out. Oh well, strange.

As for the others, most of them were fairly new to acting and either had very few or never auditioned before at all. I was thinking that now these new girls will think this is how all auditions go. It will be easier for the next guy they audition for. Hah.

So they would come in and read, we would try a few things. I had them scream a few times (horror movie). I had two female assistants and my producer who was running a camera during the auditions. At the end one of the girls simply said "Can you please remove your top for us." Simple as that. Most simply said sure and did it. Others that had a question or two were explained that it was important to make sure that they were comfortable being topless around a small crew.

I guess overall we just need a bigger budget to get more women out that are willing to be topless. Even the strip clubs only produced one girl for us.

Anyways it was fun and maybe this info is helpful to others in my situation.
 
haha, that's still awesome though. I need to hold some auditions like this, lord knows I might not see another topless girl any other way for a while. ;)
 
ot444 said:
Even had one girl show up saying she knew nothing about it being topless. This being her second audition for me where I have her on the first tape saying "no problem to toplessness" Not to mention I had a detailed section on what the nudity included with the emails I sent out. Oh well, strange.
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It just goes to show that most people don't read emails.

It's amazing to me how often people claim to have no knowledge of clearly outlined requirements even though they had been given explicit instructions.

Did email girl remove her top?
 
Michele Seidman said:
Are you offering to shoot one or should I just get all the ex's who call and tell me they miss 'it' to put it on tape and edit it to under 2 minutes? not sure if i can get all the testimonials down short enough for that....

tee hee
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Honestly I wasn't offering anything... but, "Have Camera, Will Travel" is my motto. Well, that and "Anything, anywhere, anytime, just as long as it doesn't include kids or animals" :)
 
flnstudios said:
Did email girl remove her top?
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I assume you meant this girl that said "she didn't know". No she did not. She was about to read and I told her if she was not comfortable with the topless thing then there really was no reason for her to read for me once again.
 
ot444 said:
I assume you meant this girl that said "she didn't know". No she did not. She was about to read and I told her if she was not comfortable with the topless thing then there really was no reason for her to read for me once again.
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Nicely handled. It is amazing how many will try to sell you on something other than what you want.
 
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