Getting the script to name actors

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ronin99

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At a Film Festival, I had the pleasure of pitching my script to a couple of name actors. They were interested and gave me an address to send the script. Obviously, I'd like to send it in a way where it won't just be thrown in the trash (cover letter?) and actually have a chance to get to the actor.


Any advice is greatly appreciated.


 
My 2 cents: You won't know one way or the other if they throw it in the trash, so it really doesn't matter that much. Instead of getting worked up about this being your big break, blah, blah, blah, just send it to the address with a short note about briefly talking to them about the screenplay (don't rattle on) and then don't bug them after that. If it's what they want they will find you. Now go about life (don't count on anything happening) and work on other meaningful projects.
 
You'll have to go through an agent I'm sure, as with the first post. Just mention in the first sentence to the agent that you already spoke to the actor, and ask that it be passed along as requested. That should make them send it. But if you do this, make sure it's your final final final draft.
 
If you remind them of your meeting them in the cover letter they will probably give it a look. Great scripts are few and far between, and you never know where you'll find one. But if they don't really like it in the first 10 pages or so they will probably stop reading. So while it's great that you've established the personal contact, the actual quality of your story/script is *by far* the most important thing.

How well has it been received so far by other strategically chosen, knowledgeable, and reasonably impartial readers? If it needs anything by way of a rewrite, do it now...
 
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Guy sent pizza delivery to an actor/director once, that worked. You'd be surprised how script get read. Play nice to the receptionist who answers the phones to the companies.
 
Be carefull not to be stalkerish, a studio exec's dog walker (who was sitting the dogs while he was on vacation) left a script for him on his kitchen table, it was thrown in the trash and the dog walker was forever branded a stalker. Ohh yea, the exec also got a new dog walker.

Just send it to his agent. Even better if you have an agent to send it to the actors agents, he can mention on the phone you and the actors talked about it.
 
Back before my project went into development hell, I sent the screenplay to the agents of actors we were thinking of using for the roles -- some quite big names. A brief cover-letter telling them about the film, the role we thought they should play, and some of the people involved was all we sent along with the script. They knew that at that point we didn't have money or distribution, but it didn't stop them from reading.
 
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