And the Assistants Shall Lead Them
For those trying to break into Hollywood, assistants are the gatekeepers, the ones who decide which resume or reel gets passed on to the people who can actually say yes. Just ask Oscar nominee Carey Mulligan.
About six years ago, she was, in essence, a drama-school reject. But after screenwriter Julian Fellowes (“Gosford Park”) gave a talk at her school, Mulligan wrote to him, and Fellowes and his wife invited her to dinner with a batch of other hopefuls. “His wife knew this casting director Maggie Lunn, and she had an assistant called Camilla Evans. Camilla had a friend, Robin Hudson, who was Jina Jay’s assistant,” is how Mulligan explains the not-exactly-direct connection…
Read the Article by Rachel Abramowitz
And the Assistants Shall Lead Them
