Casting The Pitt

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Cathy Sandrich is the Emmy-winning casting director of The Pitt, HBO’s Emmy-winning outstanding drama beginning its second season this week. A veteran of various “big boy movies,” Cathy reveals how she sees thousands of actors for hundreds of roles; the supreme value of lists; how one starts over with every project; the importance of strong and truthful choices; how casting directors have to audition just like actors and, also like actors, don’t like to be pegged; how good is always good but sometimes not quite right; and, most encouragingly, how great auditions are never wasted. (Length 22:09)

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