Auditions for "Breaking Dawn" are Scams!

As much as we would all love to be an extra in The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, and we’ve all seen the ads just for auditions and casting calls, Twilight casting agent Lana Veenker, says don't believe it.

It’s all a scam, Lana says.

“Anyone who is saying click here to audition for ‘Breaking Dawn,’ or the deadline is coming up, is lying. ‘Breaking Dawn’ is not in production. No casting directors have been hired. Nobody is hiring extras.”

First of all, “they haven’t even announced what city or country they’re going to shoot in,” Lana says. “They may shoot in Vancouver again,” in British Columbia. If they do, “they’re not going to hire American extras to shoot in Vancouver. American kids wouldn’t be legal to work in Canada anyway without work permits.

“There’s no way the production company would hassle getting permits for extras when thousands are dying to be in this who live right there.”

Even if Summit Entertainment, the company that produces the films, chooses to shoot in Oregon again — and there have been rumors it might — Lana says casting directors would never sift through individual applications for extras. They’d have a casting call and check out thousands at a time.

Kids who think they could be cast in actual roles need a reality check, Lana says. In the first film, a few roles did go to actors who weren’t yet famous. “But they were known to casting directors around the country,” Lana says. “They weren’t just plucked up off the street because they were fans.”

Lana thinks “Breaking Dawn” won’t be shot until the third film, “Eclipse,” is released, which is scheduled for June. “Publicity will need the lead actors until then for press, to go to premieres all over the world and appear on shows like Jay Leno’s.

“But even if, say, they were going to start shooting on June 1, the principal casting company would be hired maybe eight weeks before then, and it will work with actors who have talent agents already. There may not be any open calls.”

So anything that says casting is “imminent” is wrong.

“And extras won’t be hired until a week or so before production.”

One last thing: “No bona fide casting director charges anyone money to audition. That’s the bottom line.”

Source: EclipseMovie.org