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Interviewer: My guest today is Barbara Cranston. Her name has appeared on the credits of many well-known films because she works as a casting director. Barbara, welcome and tell our audience about your career. Is it a big responsibility finding the actors for a film? Barbara: The job of a casting director is a highly-skilled one actually, because without the right cast, there's no movie. Although experience counts of course, intuition is the essential quality for the job, and that's not something you can learn. You signal things to the audience through the kind of actors you cast.Interviewer: So how do you go about it? Barbara: It's an odd process, because it's not just about casting a certain number of actors in roles. The dynamic is incredibly important: if you have a comedian, you have to cast a particular type of person against them. And it's also about energy: if one person has quite a low-energy style, then you need someone opposite them to gee them up a bit. When I meet an actor, I'm trying to find a quality in that person that reflects into the part in an interesting way. After I've read the script, I start to have ideas and to talk to people. Interviewer: And the director leaves it all to you, doesn't he? Barbara: Well, I do all the preparatory work. The first stage is that agents send in photos, video tapes and resumes of actors that I've requested or that they think are good. I watch loads of tapes. If I like an actor, I'll meet them, or go to see them in a play. Then they go to meet the director who makes the final selection from my short list. On average they see about eight or nine actors per part, but I see many more. Interviewer: Barbara, are you ambitious? Barbara: Of course, I am. I don't believe anyone who does well isn't. I was initially attracted by the glamour of it all, but I'm definitely not driven by money, because I still don't have any. What absolutely drives me now in all parts of my life is that I don't want to be old and have regrets. We are all able to do something successfully, and I think it's a shame if you don't achieve that. Interviewer: You took a break from your career at one time, didn't you? But what went wrong, why did you give up?
Barbara: The worst aspect of the job is that the casting stage is a stressful time in the making of a film. It takes a lot longer than people think — a big film can take six months. An awful lot of other people's frustrations can land on you, and I've never really learnt how not to take it personally. I guess it goes with commitment. Interviewer: But in the end they tempted you back, didn't they? Barbara: The only reason I came back was because one of my favourite directors handed me a lovely script. It wasn't even that I wanted it. I'd got plenty of theatre work which I was enjoying. But I just couldn't bear the idea of anyone else doing that script because it was so brilliant. It's the best thing about my job, working with really fantastic people. But after my work is done, I move on — I don't get involved in the rest of the making of the film. At the end, at the after-shoot party, everyone looks at me as if to say, 'Who are you?' But I don't mind because the people who matter know what part I've played and anyway, by that time I'm already getting my teeth into the next one... and I love that feeling. Interviewer: Barbara, thanks for talking to us today.
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