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Becoming... Casting Director Susanne Scheel ("Past Lives," "The Wife")
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Susanne Scheel is a New York-based casting director with a Bachelor of Science in Film and Television from Boston University. Susanne has won three Casting Society of America Artios Awards for Excellence in Casting and has been nominated for nine more. Susanne has had the honor of collaborating with several visionary creatives including Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, Frances McDormand, Barry Levinson, George Clooney, Kasi Lemmons, Ryan Murphy, Jim Mickle, Cherien Dabis, John Lee Hancock, Peter Chelsom, Celine Song, Dean Craig, Bjorn Runge, Xavier Manrique, Danya Taymor, Patrick Wilson, and Whitney White. She has worked for and with some of the industry’s top casting directors including spending the last ten years and counting working with Ellen Chenoweth.
As a casting director, Susanne’s debut feature film “The Wife”, starred Glenn Close, Jonathan Pryce, Christian Slater, Annie Starke, Max Irons, Harry Lloyd, and Elizabeth McGovern. More recently, Susanne co-cast Celine Song’s “Past Lives” with Ellen Chenoweth. “Past Lives” premiered this year at the Sundance Film Festival and also screened at the 73rd Berlin International Film Festival.
In this episode, we talk about:
• Her first casting internships in Boston and her first assistant role in LA
• Vivid memory of working with the Coen brothers and asking her “What do you think?”
• Going to LA for periods of time for a project and what coast she prefers
• Why there are more female CDs then male CDs
• Casting the Oscar-nominated film Past Lives and the challenges COVID and the time difference to Korea posed
• How many actors get called in for an average day player role
• Tips for actors for auditions
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