Some interpretations of LA Casting notices (typically student films):

“Strong improv skills a plus” — We don’t have a script, we can’t write worth a damn, we’re too lazy to write, we’ll be stealing your improv ideas during the audition and/or when you do something brilliant in our film we’ll take credit for it.

“Samuel L. Jackson type,” “Bruce Willis type,” “Cameron Diaz type,” etc. — Look like these people, do your best imitation of these people because we wrote our script imagining big stars in the roles since we have no imagination and can’t create REAL characters we can only imagine famous actors as real characters. Our script will like aspire to be Tarantino-like, Raimi-like, Robert Rodriguez like because this gives us hope that our no-budget piece of crap will turn out to be Movie-like.

Age range 22-28 – We write about what we know, which you now know means a college/grad school aged person. Be like I wish I was.

Multi-Ethnic Pre-op Transgender. Please submit only real transgenders.– Ooookay. No questions here.