Posted by BethAB at dixon.ge.com on August 16, 2000 at 15:39:08:
In Reply to: Re: It's hard to find good help anymore posted by sweetangel on August 16, 2000 at 14:15:50:
: : I think with clerks, it was a more professional venture from the start. He held auditions, the main actors weren't his buddies, but actual actors.
: : It wasn't like "Dude, O'Halloran, put down the playstation and come film the roof hockey scene"
: : They were paid actors on a set.
: Sorry, but the actors were not paid, right away anyway. In fact, actors didn't know if the pay would come at all, it depended on whether the movie actually got sold and distributed. So they knew they would if it did, but wouldn't if it didn't.
They did audition though, for the most part.