
Billy Hopkins
Casting director
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Oct 14, 2026
Ep 63: SOMETHING WILD: Risa & Billy talk Casting over the past 40 years
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25:24speaker_3UNKNOWN
yeah, yeah.

Billy HopkinsGUEST
You have to have, as an actor, you need to have the confidence to make a choice and do it.

Billy HopkinsGUEST
If you're afraid, you're never going to get anywhere, and it's going to show.

Billy HopkinsGUEST
And that, to me, says, well, you know, either you need our help and guidance, which I hope we provide, And or you're not ready yet, you know, and and I think, you know, I really do think actors lose something when they don't have that personal feedback.
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And so that brings me back to what I wanted to say at the very beginning of this conversation is how we met and how we then came up in the theater world in New York, in the I would say late 70s.
Ep 62: Casting Virtual Roundtable: CDs tell it like it is
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Billy HopkinsGUEST
Now it's just a blur of like, it's almost like it's become like commercial casting where you see like a thousand people in a day.
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50:25RisaHOST
Yeah, it used to be you'd pick somebody, and then you'd, when we were in New York, and we would then make these VHS copies, remember?
Security without silos: Why integration is no longer optional
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So just our final question now, where do you see Unified Access Manager heading in the next five to 10 years?

Billy HopkinsGUEST
I mean, I think we're still working out how it's effective in, you know, our industry and how we can really use that to do things that aren't happening already.

Billy HopkinsGUEST
You know, there's a rule set of rules and you either have access to a door or you don't have access to a door.

Billy HopkinsGUEST
So in that kind of respect, it's hard to fully integrate our AI, but I think more around the sort of software usability tools potentially, having AI sort of come in and be able to auto-generate, you know, from a request that you write, I want to add a door to the system, or I would like to run this report.
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brilliant thank you so much both um so before we wrap up is there anything you'd like to add or any final thoughts for our listeners

