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EXCLUSIVE: Eliza Taylor has been cast as the lead in the CW drama pilot The Hundred. Written/executive produced by Jason Rothenberg based on the books by Kass Morgan, directed by Bharat Nalluri and exec produced by Matt Miller, The Hundred is set 97 years after a nuclear war has destroyed civilization. It revolves around 100 juvenile delinquents sent back to Earth to investigate the possibility of re-colonizing the planet. Taylor, repped by CAA and ROAR, plays the lead, Clarke. Passionate and rebellious, she is one of the “delinquents” sent down to the dangerous world. As the daughter of the surviving colony’s chief medical officer, she also holds some important secrets. Warner Bros TV and Alloy are producing. This marks the first U.S. series gig for Aussie Taylor, who co-starred on the popular series Neighbours in her native country. I hear she didn’t audition for pilots and was sought out based on her feature audition tapes.
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why don’t they just film all the tv shows in Australia
I’m on Australian/British overdose. Don’t worry Americans don’t need jobs.
And funny enough their unions don’t make it easy for non-Aussie talent to work there. Considering we pay on average 5 times better, its no surprise. But for all the Americans with similar pedigree (ie., “unknowns”) who HAVE to audition, this is really sad.
What troubles us in addition to taking jobs away from Americans is that many of these actors accents are so heavy they’re difficult to undertand. Wake up all you CDs & Executives. Americans are turning and will turn against you by NOT viewing your work. I for one am starting to turn off to non-American actors; with the exception if the accents are warranted in the shows & films. STOP the invasion already.
Find the concept really interesting.
Find the network completely the wrong choice.
Here’s to hoping a real network develops the same idea for adults.
There might be maybe one aussie or british cast in 1 out of every 4 pilots. It still means 90% of the roles are still going to americans so maybe get over the complaining. Its a global casting game now…the best person is going to get the job no matter what country of origin theyre from.
Really? She didn’t even Audition for the part. It’s just seems a “cool” thing to do these days, and hollywood is noting if they aren’t on the band wagon. Australia is the new Texas.
What a bunch of losers writing comments.
IT’S A FACT. The casting process is exhaustive in all parts of the business. Networks and studios don’t risk tens of millions to appease their buddy agents or make some nepotism driven decision. Maybe it has happened once in a blue moon, but now more than ever, the cream rises to the top.
Sorry, but only bitter no-talents make this complaint. Stop whining and start working and then maybe you will see how this stuff all works.
Mitzy, you’re waaay off. The best person hasn’t gotten the job in a long long time. This young woman, while she may well be talented, is an unknown and is fielding offers?? Come on. She’s young, blonde and attractive…thats what this is about. There are loads of talented, trained(Yale, Juilliard, NYU,etc) actors in this country who are more than capable of playing anything out there. So,why are some many Brits and Aussies getting cast…? Because they’e young, good looking and American casting directors/producers are too lazy to seek out the talent that is right under their noses. They just call CAA who’s out signing every young blonde with an accents they can find. Let’s not kid ourselves. Very, VERY little of this is about ‘the best’ or most talented person for the job.
actually, they read hundreds of girls for the lead. Nobody rose to the occasion. Get your facts straight before you sling around the word “lazy” and before you assume to know about ANYone’s chops.
Nice response. As a former talent rep we had just as much trouble getting casting directors to see talent from Australia and the UK as we did from Dallas, Toronto and Seattle. CDs are actually extremely busy people, especially during pilot season which is insane. But actors who don’t get seen (or cast) have to be able to bitch about the process and deadline.com is the perfect way to vent.
Really? Nobody?! I think you’re being a little naive.
Maybe they/you were looking in the wrong place. My facts are pretty good, I think. The fact is that there are the best training programs in the world, right here in the US. The best! Every year, hundreds of them graduate from said programs. These are people who spent 3 to 4 years studying everything from Ibsen to Kushner and you’re suggesting that none of them could rise to the occasion of a pilot for the CW? C’mon Mitzy…lets be real. This ain’t about ‘chops’, m’dear.
If you genuinely believe that there is some hidden trend or agenda by studios to hire brits and australians then you are completely misguided. They have seen her work along with the work of americans and have chosen her based on her looks and acting ability. That is fact. Your theories are quite ridiculous and getting irritating. Every time a foreign actor takes an american role its the same comments. Give it a rest and find something else to get on your high horse about.
Hmm… Cindy must be one of “them”, LOL.
Some global casting game. You think Americans are cast in foreign productions?
Haha…Ummm what foreign productions? USA is where it all happens. Trust me, no american actor would want to be in the no budget, paid in peanuts crap the foreign actors are escaping from.
They are cast in British productions (Jeremy Piven is playing the lead in a drama series airing in the UK right now), and Canadian productions. But your point is irrelevant anyway. Sports is an appropriate analogy. No matter what the sport, the best league boasts the most foreign talent. Japanese baseball limits the number of foreign players allowed on its teams. There is no such limit on foreign players in Major League Baseball, because MLB is above anything so petty. Every Dominican player or Japanese player in MLB takes a job away from an America, but MLB is not a “make work” program for Americans.
Mitzi you don’t even remotely believe that lie. The best person RARELY gets the job. The person who is liked the most gets the job. The person who’s repped by someone who owes another someone a favor gets the job. The person who fits the bill for the flavor of the month gets the job. The person who is bestie’s with the showrunner’s wife gets the job. The person who is “hot right now” gets the job. The person w/ NAME gets the job. The person with “it” gets the job. But it is rarely…ever the person who’s paid some dues, trained for a decade, honed their chops on stage, stayed in shape, sharpened their mind and nailed the audition to the wall like Christ on a cross that gets the job. Decision makers are in love w/ Brits and Aussies because it opens the door for syndication in that country…period.
So… how many Americans do you know who are landing jobs overseas? Enlighten us, please.
Go take math again. It’s 75% not 90%
3 scifi shows with 3 blonde leads. Good work CW
It’s how diversity works in Hollywood.
What do the shows being sci fi have to do with anything?
Sorry, Mitzy, it ain’t a global game if American actors can’t work in Australia. Or Canada. Or England. I’m not a performer but I’m sick and tired of this jobbing out when there’s no reciprocity except for stars, who don’t need it. There are even Aussie and British leads on “Nashville” for God’s sake. Really? There aren’t ANY American actors who can sing country? Ridiculous. I can’t believe that in this entire country, there aren’t two twentysomethings with equal talent.
British and Australian actors don’t call themselves actors until they are ready to work professionally. If Americans did the same it would be a very different palate painted throughout the small screen.
Yes,Brits and Australians (and other non-Americans) all have an education in acting,
On top they start with modesty, do not demand huge sums of money, and they all can do accents an know how to act.
Americans who call themselves actors start with and an agent, and a publicist and a lawyer,
and they seem to be trained in delivering lines and market and sell themselves, but not how to act.
Yeah, Nicole Kidman works for such a measly multimillion dollar paycheck. And Will Smith, Jodie Foster, Tom Cruise, Denzel Washington, Tom Hanks, Diane Keaton, Annette Bening, Halle Berry, Angelina Jolie all of which have been nominated or have won Oscars are all BAD American actors because they demand big paydays for big projects.
Your logic is illogical. Australian actors come to America with hopes of getting a big payday just like their idols listed above. It ain’t because they’re dedicated to the craft otherwise they’d work for free.
That is such a joke. Most of these Australian actors learn to act on Home and Away and Neighbours. That’s not exactly Julliard.
British and Aussie Actors Equity should be forced to relax their rules and let us work in those countries as easily as they are allowed to work here. Just to be fair. ‘Cuz the world is nothing if not fair. All the time. Everywhere.
Know Eliza well. She is a huge huge talent. Looking forward to seeing her again
On the small screen .
Good work CW – Eliza is a great choice!
Your country make us work hard for our ability to work in your country so it must just show how good she is
Grat work – All the best!!!
You can, go through the same hurdles internationals go through to get a visa to work in USA to work in smother country, perfect their accent snd you can take all the roles you want there.. The issue is there isn’t any. You wanna be an actor, you move to LA.
most young Aussie actors on TV/movies these days are straight up terrible, i know plenty of brilliant American actors who lose jobs to talentless Australians every day…wake up, this is has NOTHING to do with talent, it’s simply a silly trend. A friend of mine is on a show with an Aussie who plays an American, this particular actor has to have a dialect coach present at ALL times to help them with their so called “flawless” accent…on the studios dime. it’s insulting.
Name these “talentless” Australians you have in mind. Go ahead. I dare you. Don’t be gutless. All of the Australian actors in the US I am aware of are doing excellent work on American TV. Robert Taylor in the lead role on Longmire is someone I will single out for praise.
This shit is laughable. Hollywood would never…EVER…N.E.V.E.R. go to Nigeria or Ethiopia and cherry pick their best actors, bring them here, cast them on network TV and studio films in the attempt to pawn them off as African-American. They wouldn’t do it w/ Asians or even Latinos. This system is enamored w/ the illusion of amazing talent simply cause they can turn the accent on or off. “Hundreds of girls read for the part???” Hog shit. The same thing happened with Thor, Wolverine, Gladiator, Superman, Batman etc. And I like ALL those actors, but this industry IS our main export and I’m calling bullshit that Yale, Julliard, NYU, ACT, Steppenwolf etc have not generated a single actor who was more than capable of nailing any role that went to an import. Pure BS. Truth is, casting and the rest of the numbnuts who play gatekeeper in this game are fuckin’ fickle, petty and prefer playing me-too versus actually FINDING new talent. …. smh {to myself- they gave a network lead to a white broad w/o ever seeing her for the damn role}
I bet it will be a show with flashbacks. Since Lost, every new drama show have to add flashbacks to their storylines. Please stop the trend, be original.
Even elephants got flashbacks – it’s what human call PTSD. It’s natural process.
I remember that The Event relied on this device heavily jumping between several places in time of the same characters. And immediately after pilot premier dumb-asses got confused and producers had to kill this effect. I wasn’t confused in a bit and quiet liked it because story became much more interesting and dynamic.
Person of Interest rely on flashback probably the most of today shows. Without flashbacks this rich and complex show just couldn’t exist.
The Event was a terrible show
Britsh actors formation is usually years of theatre and school.
Most american actors “formation” is modeling.
There’s why there’s only one Meryl Streep, but there’s Helen Mirren, Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Emma Thompson and so on.
There’s also Glenn Close, Sissy Spacek, Sigourney Weaver, Susan Sarandon, Patricia Clarkson and Jessica Lange and not just Meryl Streep.
So…
Shut the hell up.
The truth is studios, directors and producers want to cast UK actors and Australian actors for two very obvious reasons. The first is work ETHIC. They actually care about the acting and performance whereas a lot of pretty young americans move to LA, do the “networking” but really just want to be famous. They aren’t trained and they have a sense of entitlement that young british and australian actors don’t generally have. The other reason is because they are better for the job. There is a certain ‘style’ of acting that is ruining network TV and stinking up audition rooms all over LA. When someone from australia or the uk do a self tape and give a very different spin on the material producers and directors get excited. Of course I should add that this is a generalization. Meryl Streep is american and one of the greatest actors to ever walk the planet. If you are upset because you are losing out to Brits or Australians then get off with your bitchy comments and start working harder. Its sickening reading the trolling comments within our industry. Its not even constructive. It sounds like some very bitter people who should either suck it up and work harder or get out and do something else. I say congratulations to the girl and look forward to seeing her work and what she brings to the role.
If Aussies have such great “WORK ETHIC” why is the Australian Film industry not as lucrative as the American movie industry? I mean they work so hard, right? Hard work equals success, right? How come most of the classic movies are either from Asia, UK, Europe or America? Ask the common movie fan to name 10 great American film, I guarantee you they could, with ease. Ask them to do the same with Australia, they couldn’t. I bet movie buffs couldn’t do it either.
The best Australian films are OZsploitation films, all of which were terrible. That’s why Australia’s best actors and actresses come to America, because Australia’s industry is non-existent. Perhaps you should stop with YOUR B*TCHY comments and help build up your country’s crappy film industry, if you are Australian.
“Hard work equals success, right? ”
Sadly, no. Hard work only better prepares someone for opportunities that *might* come. Even then ones best effort may not be what is currently appreciated.
Dreams are good. Reality does exist.
The focus of work done by anyone who creates is probably best done for a personal benefit of just working. Too often the work we feel called to do doesn’t coexist with the job needed to pay bills and sustain physical needs.
The determination to not give up on or stray from our work is bred by positivity not delusions. Our attitude is really the only thing we’re able to fully control in life.
Here’s to everyone aligning attitude with dream driven goals and creating the life we each deserve.
Cheers Mate,
- An American
Yes. Suck it up, spend all your money on acting classes – which most CDs are the teachers – practice, etc. and you’ll be in your 60′s before you get a one-liner. Unless CDs & the decision-makers start casting Americans ’til they can’t find anyone (not likely) to fill the roles… nothing will change – except we’ll see more – non-Americans. Hey SAG/AFTRA… you take our dues & what do we get? Broke! No jobs. So… what are you going to do, Union Leaders?
What’s next ? May be quotas for actors from every state ? Or county ? Competition drives evolution.
There are 300 million Americans. There’ more than enough competition.
SAG-AFTRA ought to get a handle on this. Equity, the union covering stage actors, has very strict controls to prevent this type of onslaught.
I just can’t get behind these nihilistic, end-of-the-world shows. And here’s another one……sigh.
And is that the actors fault for signing with said ‘agent, and publicist and lawyer’ or the latter’s fault for signing people with good looks but little to no ability? The issue, for me, isn’t that Brits and Aussies get jobs here as much as it is that people then think that they are somehow more talented or better trained, as Veronica seems to feel. That’s dead wrong. The industry awards youth and beauty first, and talent later. That’s the problem.
Having been a fan of Eliza and have been following her career since she started in 2001 she has real talent