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04.03.2024 - 08:47 / deadline.com
EXCLUSIVE: International Artists Management (IAM), the London agency that reps stars including Billy Zane and Gary Dourdan, has admitted sending a client misrepresented invites for self-tape auditions in an attempt to secure him work.
Mark Barrett, whose credits include Outlander, has blown the whistle on his former agent, gathering evidence showing that he was emailed at least six illegitimate self-tape invites between February 2022 and January 2024. In five of the purported invites, IAM appeared to change the wording of emails from casting directors to make it seem as if they had requested Barrett to tape for a role when in fact he had not been called to audition.
Barrett accused IAM of giving him false hope after he received the purported invites to audition for major roles in films and TV shows, including Guy Ritchie’s Netflix series The Gentlemen and BBC drama Shetland. He invested time and effort into recording the tapes, but some were not submitted by IAM due to “administrative errors” or because they were declined by casting directors. Barrett said the revelations had left him angry and heartbroken.
Misrepresenting audition invites does not contravene any specific industry standards, but casting directors frown upon the practice. In normal circumstances, casting directors will invite one or more actors from an agency to record a self-tape for a specific role, with the audition process becoming commonplace during the pandemic.
A member of the Casting Directors Guild told Barrett that they were aware of the “tactic” of duplicating tapes for actors not called to audition, but said agencies should not do it “for many reasons.” IAM is a member of agency group, the Personal Managers’ Association (PMA), which
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