Know your type? How exactly does a high school senior applying to colleges know their castable type already? My daughter is a rising college senior and she doesn’t even know her type. I’m not so sure I’d be willing to trust anyone to decide that for me at the tender age of 17-18. Not even a much heralded college coach.
I actually chatted with a friend about this subject just today. Her daughter graduated recently and has been working consistently in excellent jobs that actually pay the rent with some to spare. Crazy talented kid so no surprise there and she also did a lot of things right to make people want to work with her. But I asked this friend her thoughts on type with respect to her daughter and her response was revealing to me. She said that her daughter continues to be submitted and called back for roles for that she (the daughter) never in a million year would have associated with what she thought was her type. So my friend’s conclusion is that your castable type is whatever the industry eventually decides is your type and maybe the best advice is to just roll with it until you have enough street experience to trust the conclusion.