[Kory]

So, I'm doing a film project. First of all, if I had known it was going to be THIS hard I never EVER would have done it.

Now that that's out of the way,
I have posted some online postings for auditions for characters that I haven't casted yet. I cast one girl for a character and immediately she was like, "I think this should be changed" and "Maybe you should do XYZ" and it was frustrating because she almost made it seem like I don't know what I'm doing and I *do*, I know it's a shocker, but I'm actually working with a whole team of creatives to get this project off the ground.

So naturally, I had to put the film on hold for COVID reasons and I told the cast to reply to me to let me know that they received my email and she never replied... So I was like, "You know what? If she's not even going to take the short time to reply to my email, maybe she's not worth dealing with for this project." So since she never replied, I decided to recast.

So I posted another breakdown for this character and out of the blue, this girl I once cast decided to email me like, "Oh hey. I noticed the new breakdown, have I been dropped from the project?" And it's frustrating because I gave her chances to reply to my email(s) and she also was very annoying and bold to try to change the project that isn't HERS to begin with, so I'm kinda done with her anyway... In my honest opinion, if she was serious about being in the role, she should have asked me first about when the production would start up again and she should have replied to my email. She was the only one of the people in my cast who never replied. So it's frustrating that that happened.

I'm a little annoyed, I guess. My job is already hard enough as it is, I have to find locations, find food for the cast and crew, I have to set up shoot dates, I have to browse through hundreds of auditions to find the right choice for each character... it's a LOT to do. Especially for me since this isn't what I do for a living. This is just a project I am working on for my own portfolio. I really don't need the extra stress right now...