EXCLUSIVE: “Quite a can of worms,” observed a British casting director of a scandal that, until February, was unknown to his profession.
The 30-year industry veteran was talking about the practice of agents sending clients fake invitations to record self-tape auditions.
Deadline first exposed the issue in an investigation on Bodhi Talent, a boutique agency based in Manchester. Founder Archie Purnell was accused of copying legitimate self-tape invites and pasting them in emails to clients who had not been called to audition.
One actor rumbled the ruse when an audition landed in her inbox 30 minutes after the deadline for submissions had passed. Twisting open the Bodhi-shaped Russian doll revealed similar concerns about a larger agency: International Artists Management (IAM).
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