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Originally Posted by pip08456
You give the BBC far too much credit for UK actors etc for Intenational success and studios being opened here.
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The BBC (and Channel 4) commission a lot of television from new writers and actors. A lot of them either start there or at the National Theatre. Benedict Cumberbatch for example got his first serious roles on the BBC. Jesse Armstrong of Succession fame on the BBC and on Channel 4 with Peep Show. Which, along side the BBC Mitchell and Webb shows, also gave Oliva Coleman a bigger audience.
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It was the film industry through international releases which first put our actors out there not the BBC.
Any actor other than perhaps the headline one (and they've beeen replaced) has to go through casting, possibly via a show reel first but definately via an audition and there will possibly hundereds going for the same role.
All the BBC (or theare roles does) is give the actors the money to go to the US and sign uo with US agebts. If they suceed is down to the result of auditions they have.
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Past work gets noticed. Auditions are not purely speculative, past work is often leaned on for obvious reasons. It gives actors a showreel, it gives agents something to show casting directors and it gives the actors experience and name recognition. It helps get them agents in the first place.
They still need to audition but to get to the audition they often need something to be noticed. Otherwise casting directors have tens of thousands of speculative audition tapes.
Look at Daisy Edgar-Jones. Got a breakout role in Normal People then suddenly is cast in several Hollywood films. That isn't a coincidence, the work in Normal People noticed.
Long story short: The more British shows to be made in Britain that risk casting unknown British talent the more actors will get a chance to breakthrough.