Ignoring low-budget logic, we whipped up a script with forty speaking parts. With little acting experience ourselves and having never auditioned an actor in our lives, rounding out our cast was something we probably shouldn't have taken for granted. As it turned out, none of that really mattered.
Over the course of a few weeks in the Spring before we shot Zopp, we held a hunt for our cast. We solicited actors through some online forums as well as through a couple of newspaper and television news stories about our production. Response got pretty overwhelming at first. Actors from all over Wisconsin and Minnesota started firing us headshots and resumes, touting their interest in acting the shit out of our movie.
We quickly learned two very important things about the process:
1) Acting resumes are boring and irrelevant. (An opinion only shared by Nick: "Just because he played Guildenstern in Carthage College's production of Silly Hamlet, it doesn't mean you can act.")*
2) Nobody ever looks as hot as their headshot.**
Continue reading about our actors...
See the complete Cast List here.
