A gaming company is looking for Asian actors for an upcoming video game in Denver, Colorado.
Casting directors are now hiring actors, models, and talent to work on a video game in Denver, Colorado starting in early 2020.
Producers are seeking the following types:
- Producers are seeking actors as well as every-day people to fill this role.
- Their “full performance” technology allows us to simultaneously capture a performer’s entire nuanced performance including body, face and voice, and use it to bring the digital video game characters to life.
- Your likeness will not be used in the final game, only your physical performance and your voice.
- Name: Lee
Sex: Male
Age: Must SOUND 35-45
Ethnicity: Asian, 1st generation Chinese dialect/accent preferred
How to apply:
Casting Call
A Denver, Colorado area video game company is casting Asian men, for a unique opportunity in anunannounced story-driven video game project.
The client is focused on narrative adventure video games with 20 years experience in the game industry. Their most recent project won multiple awards and was nominated for a BAFTA.
We are seeking actors as well as every-day people to fill this role. Our “full performance” technology allows us to simultaneously capture a performer’s entire nuanced performance including body, face and voice, and use it to bring the digital video game characters to life. Your likeness will not be used in the final game, only your physical performance and your voice.
For interested actors: You have strong physical instincts including the range and control of a theater performance, with the subtlety and nuance of film performance. Ability to find emotional truth in every line of dialog, motivation in every movement, and deliver natural, believable voice over.
For interested every-day people: You may not have any acting experience, and that’s okay. However, you should be confident and in touch with who you are, and self-aware of how you feel. You readily know what gets you excited, what makes you scared, and what makes you angry. You are comfortable with engaging with others and expressing a range of emotions. Other than that, it’s all about “being yourself” under imaginary circumstances.
Union Status: Non-Union
Genre: Story-Driven Video Game
Production: This role will shoot approximately 2-3 days in the Denver, CO area. Scheduled based on actor availability, in early 2020. If cast from out-of-state, you will be provided travel, food, and lodging.
Audition: For the initial audition, you will be recording and submitting your voice only. Any recording quality level accepted, including using your phone. However you record it, please be sure that we can hear the quality of your voice and the nuance of your performance clearly. Please slate the beginning of your audition with your name and agency if represented. Give at least one reading of each line. You may choose to give two reads for some lines, if you feel multiple motivations.
Callbacks: Currently scheduled for the week of December 2nd in the Denver, CO area. We will have Skype callbacks for remote candidates.
Role:
Name: Lee
Sex: Male
Age: Must SOUND 35-45
Ethnicity: Asian, 1st generation Chinese dialect/accent preferred
Type: Supporting
Rates: Full day = $1000 + 15% agency fee. Half-day = $600 + 15% agency fee. Quarter day = $375 + 15%
agency fee. Travel, food, and lodging provided if cast outside the Denver, CO area.
Character Description: Lee is a 1st generation Chinese immigrant with an accent that is readily noticeable. Lee was born into poverty in Guangzhou, China. His family could never escape poverty, so at the age of 17 he traveled to the United States. Although he worked job to job and never rose above the pay rate of a cook, he found love, married, and had two kids. He loved his family, but fatherhood did not come easy to Lee. He did his best, escaping the chaos of his home life through gambling and alcohol. When his beloved wife became suddenly ill, he directed his anger at his kids; emotionally, and in some cases physically. Her death destroyed what few redeeming qualities he possessed, causing him to abandon his kids to the foster care system.
Submissions: Please send your audition tapes to Rebecca at [email protected] by 5:00 PM MST on Friday, November 22nd.
Mr. Lee Casting Sides:
VO Audition: Lee
Lee is a 1st generation Chinese immigrant with an accent that is readily noticeable.
1.
Lee is carving a pair of figurines out of wood for his children. They sit on the carpet watching daytime television at his feet. Lee’s daughter, Allie, asks about the figurine that he has carved for her. This is Lee being the best version of himself.
LEE: This? Good, yes? She’s a superhero. Someone strong and fast and very pretty. She can jump so high, she can leap over the mountains and touch the clouds. Then she carries the clouds home, and puts them on her ice cream. She is just like you.
2.
Lee sits at the dinner table with his two young children Marcus (12) and Allie (7). They eat in silence, avoiding eye contact. Lee lost at the track earlier that day and needs to go out of town to get a loan.
LEE: Listen. I’m going away for a few days. Marcus, keep an eye on your sister, okay? (no response) I said okay. Good. No trouble when I’m gone, understand? If you need anything, call Mr. Jones next door. Keep the house clean, too. Okay. Allie, finish your vegetables.
3.
Lee has found a carton of cigarettes in his son Marcus’ backpack. The two stare each other down in Marcus’ bedroom.
LEE: What is this? What the hell is this? You know better, Marcus. The next time you decide to bring cigarettes into this house, you’re out. You’re done.
4.
Lee sits at a dingy bar, deep in a glass of cheap whiskey. He just lost most of his savings at the track. He catches the eye of another patron slouched next to him.
LEE: It’s all bullshit, isn’t it? The whole thing. No matter how hard you work, no matter what you do, you can lose it all in a day. An hour, even. But they don’t know. They keep your money when I have kids to feed. What do they expect me to do, huh? Are you listening, mister? Huh? Hmph. It’s all bullshit.
5.
Lee is putting his children to bed. He turns out the light to their room and makes a move to close the door. Before he does, his son, Marcus, asks about their mother. Lee pauses in the doorway.
LEE: Your mother? She was a very good person. Let’s not speak of it anymore.
6.
Lee has left his home, and his children, and is interviewing with a fishing captain about work. The captain has asked Lee to describe himself.
LEE: I work hard. Very hard. I know what it’s like to be hungry, so I work harder. You hire me, you won’t regret it.
7.
The boat that Lee works on begins to sink. The crew abandons ship and huddles in a life raft. As the storm rages, their odds of survival look grim. They ask about each other’s families while they wait for the inevitable. They turn to Lee and ask if he has any children. He pauses, and then:
LEE: No.
