Do you have any great audition stories? Love at first sight?
Cami: We do. Actually two of our favorites happened in the same season. When we got the first episode of Season 2 and we had the Mags Bennett character, the very first person I thought of was Margo Martindale. But shes never in LA, she lives in New York, and it seemed impossible to get excited about somebody who doesnt live here. I called her agent just to see if, by any chance, she might be here. He said actually, shes in LA right now.
So she came in, she read seventeen pages of material, and we had goosebumps. She just owned it. She was unbelievable. It was just so exciting to be in that room and to have her actually be here and be exactly the image of what we wanted. And on that same episode
Christal: We were casting for Loretta. Anytime you have kids its a much bigger search because they change so quickly
Cami: And the Southern accent is really hard, if youre from California.
Christal: Exactly. And they come with their parents, so theres a huge overwhelming amount of people in the office, and Kaitlyn wasnt someone we were super familiar with. She had just done one thing for HBO. But her manager called, and she came in, and during the audition the camera literally broke.
So we have a waiting room full of kids and no camera, and halfway through Kaitlyns audition, we were saying, This is the girl we have to get this on tape. We cannot let her leave, this is so amazing! Because its a hard role! She looks so innocent, but to be able to throw the dialogue around, do the Southern accent, be a pot dealer and be as tough as she was
Cami: To be able to go head to head with all these people on our show
Christal: As a fourteen year old! She actually looks that age. The poor girl had to sit there for over twenty minutes waiting for us to get a new camera. Cami and I are the only ones in the room when people audition, and we had to get it to the writers. We didnt have a ton of time and there were so many people in the waiting room
Cami: It was a nightmare.
Christal: But we knew this was the girl who had to get the part. She was just so great.