<p>That Keith David reel is really something. I hadn’t realized that it was possible to view acting reels online, but it makes perfect sense. </p>
<p>According to imdb, Keith David is going to be in the upcoming film “Cloud Atlas,” based on one of my favorite novels, and he also has top billing in an in-production film called “Don’t Pass Me By.”</p>
<p>The classically trained Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Mike Leigh’s “Secrets and Lies,” the TV series “Without a Trace”) is another person who I guess you’d call a character actor who fascinates me.</p>
<p>Pilot season sounds utterly unbelievable. But for many actors, I guess it only lasts a couple of months? Unless, as Levine describes, you are cast…in that case, I guess you can’t be relatively sure until September - or even after - whether you will be retained?</p>