Casting

How it is used

Led by a casting director, who organises auditions and shortlists actors for the director and producers. Common phrases: casting call (an announcement looking for actors), open casting, casting agency, and the casting is perfect (the actors fit their roles well).

Example sentences

1. Casting starts next month, and we already have three names for the lead.

2. The casting director suggested an unknown actor from the theatre.

Common collocations

• casting director
• casting call
• open casting
• casting agency
• street casting

Related terms

• castAll the actors who play the characters in a film, series or play. As a verb, to cast someone means to choose them for a role.
• auditionA short performance in which an actor reads or acts part of a role so that the casting team can decide whether to choose them.
• lead roleThe most important part in a film or series, played by the actor whose character the story mainly follows.
• pre-productionThe planning stage before filming starts, when the script is finished, the cast is chosen, locations are found and the budget and schedule are prepared.

This word in other fields

The same English word can have a different meaning in another field:

• casting · Mechanical Engineering

More terms: Pre-Production and Scripts

• script
• scene
• screenplay
• storyboard
• dialogue