How to Break the Mold & Get Cast with Emmy-Winner Shaheen Baig (‘Adolescence’) | ‘How We Role’

On the next episode of How We Role, Emmy-Nominated Casting Director Shaheen Baig sits down with host Robert Peterpaul to share her process for discovering raw talent and creating safe environments to thrive. Her acclaimed work on Netflix’s Adolescence demonstrates how kindness, authenticity and inclusivity can lead to extraordinary performances and productions.

This episode covers:

• Practical game-changing advice for in-person and virtual auditions.
• Finding undiscovered talent through extensive community searches, including Facebook Marketplace.
• How Owen Cooper stood out in a sea of 500+ self tapes for Adolescence.
• Creating a supportive environment when working with young actors on challenging material.
• The importance of staying true to yourself rather than trying to fit industry molds.
• How being a “good person” is essential to the casting and production process and more.

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Episode Preview: How to Break the Mold & Get Cast with Emmy-Nominee Shaheen Baig (Adolescence)

Shaheen Baig: We needed actors that weren’t afraid of some improvisation. There had to be an element of that in filming. Not all actors like to improvise, and we had to think about that. Certainly when we were casting the young roles, we did a lot of work with them. We worked from the script. We improvised around the script. We tried lots of different things just to see what their focus was, how was their repetition, their concentration.

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