Amid coronavirus shutdowns, actors and hosts are filming themselves from home — and producers are finding creative ways to cast and put on their shows.
was written, shot, directed and edited remotely."It was a struggle," showrunner Mike Schur admits.Casting director Jennifer Euston can no longer safely audition actors in person at her small New York City office. And she can't scout for talent at the theater, like she did for, a scripted show set during the pandemic.
"I have to hire actors that are quarantining together as families, as husband and wife, as brother and sister, any combination of people — and it's not just straight couples," she says, adding that her goal is to add as much diversity to the show as possible. Not just racial and ethnic diversity, but"all shapes, and sizes, and faces, and looks."
You lose a little bit of the fun and the magic of having everybody in the room together and seeing each other. But it's good to remember that we're all fortunate to be working.Gloria Calderon Kellett found an alternative to taping her show on a crowded set in front of a live audience. After her rebooted sitcom had to shut down midseason, she had an idea:"My husband's a cartoonist, so animation is around me all the time. And I just thought maybe we can animate this particular episode."
Kellett says the storyline of this particular episode, set to air in June, has her TV family dealing with the upcoming presidential election. She says it's filled with fantasy sequences, making it easy to animate, but future episodes won't necessarily be cartoons.animators in South Korea continue to work. And from their homes in Los Angeles, writers and sisters Wendy and Lizzie Molyneux work in the show's virtual writers' room.
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