State of the Industry: Video Games | The Business | SAG-AFTRA Foundation
Casting directors, voice directors, an agent and working actors on the state of games in 2026: the market, celebrity...
Acting Technique Videos for Actors
88 videosWorking actors and teachers on the craft itself: breaking down a scene, making a choice and playing it, and what separates a read that gets a callback from one that does not.
John Goodman Career Retrospective | Conversations at the SAG-AFTRA Foundation
John Goodman looks back on 50 years with an Equity card: dinner theater, commercials, the Coens, Roseanne, Karl...
How ‘Heated Rivalry’ Found Connor & Hudson | Chemistry Reads + Season 2 Casting
The Heated Rivalry casting directors explain how they found Connor and Hudson, what a chemistry read is really testing,...
"Heated Rivalry" Casting Directors Jenny Lewis & Sara Kay
Jenny Lewis and Sara Kay of Lewis Kay Casting on chemistry reads over Zoom, self-tape myths, what a real choice looks...
Liz Sargent, Victor Slezak, Marceline Hugot and Ali Ahn for ‘Take Me Home’ | Conversations
Liz Sargent and the cast of Take Me Home on building a film around her sister Anna: listening without an agenda,...
James Ortiz for ‘Project Hail Mary’ | Conversations at the SAG-AFTRA Foundation
Puppeteer and actor James Ortiz on landing Rocky through a casting director who remembered him, a bold audition choice,...
Samantha Sloyan on ‘Carrie,’ Mike Flanagan, Playing Unlikable Characters
Samantha Sloyan on playing Margaret White in Mike Flanagan's Carrie: the freedom of not being liked, drilling a...
Conversations for ‘Outlander: Blood of my Blood’ | Conversations at the SAG-AFTRA Foundation
The cast of the Outlander prequel on playing the younger versions of beloved characters without imitation, researching...
Boyd Holbrook & Hiam Abbass for ‘Atonement’ | Conversations at the SAG-AFTRA Foundation
Boyd Holbrook and Hiam Abbass on an Iraq War drama based on real people: script analysis before research, dropping an...
2026 Shorts Showcase: Creators & Cast Panel | Los Angeles, Night 1
The LA Night 1 shorts showcase filmmakers on casting outside the system, the myth that disabled actors cost more,...
2026 Shorts Showcase: Creators & Cast Panel | New York, Night 1
A SAG-AFTRA panel of shorts filmmakers on playing a whole arc in ten minutes, what an intimacy coordinator actually...
David Dastmalchian
David Dastmalchian on getting clean, what casting director John Papsidera told him before The Dark Knight, and...
Acting Masterclass with Sean Astin | SAG-AFTRA Foundation
Sean Astin on what Patty Duke taught him on his first set, the training that made him commit to acting, and the...
Danny Boyle, Jack O'Connell and Guy Pearce for ‘Ink’ | Conversations at the SAG-AFTRA Foundation
Danny Boyle, Jack O'Connell and Guy Pearce on rehearsal, researching Rupert Murdoch from 1969 interview footage, and...
How to prepare for your first audition
A coach at Speiser/Sturges Acting Studio walks through preparing sides for a first audition, from the cold read to...
Theo James and Kaya Scodelario for ‘The Gentlemen’ | Conversations at the SAG-AFTRA Foundation
Theo James and Kaya Scodelario on finding a character in the sides, keeping a series surprising, and surviving new...
Cast and Creators for ‘Tiny Fugitives’ | Conversations at the SAG-AFTRA Foundation
The young cast and writer-directors of Tiny Fugitives on first jobs, open calls, chemistry reads built on games, and...
Voices Behind the Narrative | The Business | SAG-AFTRA Foundation
A SAG-AFTRA Foundation panel of working narrators on being a character inside the story, hearing your own voice...
Leveling Up: First Lead Role | Conversations | SAG-AFTRA Foundation
Three actors on the auditions that became their first leads, the months of silence in between, and what changes when...
Léa Seydoux Career Retrospective | Conversations at the SAG-AFTRA Foundation
Léa Seydoux on the auditions that failed, learning by watching directors, adapting to every filmmaker, and why her...
Cast & Creators for for ‘I Hate Myself and Want to Die’ | Conversations at the SAG-AFTRA Foundation
The cast and filmmaker of I Hate Myself and Want to Die on playing a dark premise for real, finding comedy in small...
Devon Sawa, Sarah Murphree & Brando Benetton for ‘The Girl in the River’ | Conversations
Devon Sawa and Sarah Murphree on The Girl in the River: drawing on your own past, building a backstory the script...
Kate Siegel
Kate Siegel on the random Thursday Hush was greenlit, her step by step monologue process, what letting go really means,...
How Karim Diane Books Hollywood Roles | Acting Coach Brad Heller
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy actor Karim Diane on how he started booking once he stopped imitating other leading men...