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So again, Breakdown Express really handles a lot of the logistics of going through this. So you put up a casting notice, they submit to it, and then their headshots pop up on this interface and you start just going through the headshots. And then the next step is you upload some sides to Breakdown Express and you invite some of the people to do a taped audition. So they record themselves in their apartment and they upload the taped audition, which is your sides from your film. So they’re performing your script and they upload that to Breakdown Express. And so then you have a whole page of all of those. You go through those and rate those. And then you bring in those people to an actual in-person audition, and then you make your choice. Obviously with 2000 for the role of Linda, we can’t go through and watch all the tapes and all this, but you do go through. And sometimes they have little videos where they just say their name and introduce themselves. I can just click and you see them sort of, “Hey, my name is Joe Blow and I’m an actor.” And just seeing that sort of gives you a sense of their personality or whatever. So sometimes you’ll watch those.
