She Cast Batman, Avatar & The Boondocks, Here's How | Andrea Romano

bad.

My heart breaks for those people because I know they can do it.

So I tried every trick in the book that I could get everybody to leave the room.

Let me just work with the actor all by himself.

Let me get rid of that pressure.

Because, you know, I'm sure you've had the experience too.

Producers sit in, writers sit in, animation directors sit in, maybe a toy company sits in.

I

like that part because that makes me think, oh, I'm the shit right now.

That's excellent.

Everybody's here to see me.

I'm going to say hi, you know, try to, what do they say, command the room and or kind of like leave an impression on the room.

I'm that type of person.

Excellent.

I think I can sometimes do it to my detriment.

Yeah.

I'm

sure sometimes I'm just like, hey, so I'll see you guys in December, right? Like a little too confident, but no, yeah.

I mean, I could understand that for sure.

Yeah, there is...

There's almost a desperation of I need I want this job to work for me so bad because this is the one that can make or break my career is what you think.

And I've had a bunch of those auditions.

But I have a rule where if I especially if I self tape or self submit, I'm like, all right, JD, you only get like four tries at this.

Because once you start doing like six, seven, eight, you're going crazy.

You're driving yourself insane with perfectionism.