Sunday September 2nd: We waited to hear from our leading lady about a previously scheduled rehearsal session. I had never met her, but Mookie seemed pretty sure she would be good for the part (plus she was available and willing) so I felt pretty comfortable with starting to shoot the next weekend.
She ignored all attempts to contact her. Here is where we start sweating.
What do we do if we have no leading girl and we start shooting in a week?
Craigslist!
First I tried an ad in the Long Island section. Don’t bother doing that, no one reads it. The next day Mookie bought a paid ad for all of New York ($25) and the responses started POURING in. We got around 50 in the first day.
Within those was a girl named Afton Boggiano. She looked the part and had experience in commercials, plays, etc. We contacted her and set up an audition the next day (she had to take the train out here from Manhattan, about an hour or so). We read, decided she was the one, and had a little rehearsal.
We shot a bunch of scenes with her on Saturday and things went great. [I'll get some real screen grabs up here asap]
Use craigslist.
