🎬 NOW CASTING — CHALLENGER (LIMITED SERIES)
Casting TaylorMade is currently seeking STUDENTS (ages 18 - 30yrs)!
🎥 FILMING DATE OPTIONS
Please submit for ANY and ALL dates you are available:
🏊 SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 27 — SWIMMERS + ATHLETIC TYPES & STUDENTS
We are especially looking for people who are:
Athletic / physically fit
Good, comfortable swimmers
Able to tread water comfortably
Current or former swim team members
Comfortable working in and around water
You do not need to be an elite or competitive swimmer. We are mainly looking for people who are confident in the water and comfortable treading water.
If you have swimming experience, please tell us about it in your submission!
🎾 MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28 — TENNIS PLAYERS
We would especially love submissions from people who:
Have real tennis experience
Currently play or have previously played tennis
Have played on a school, club or competitive team
Are comfortable handling a racket naturally on camera
➗🧠 ALSO FOR MONDAY 9/28 — CALLING ALL MATH PEOPLE & STUDENTS
Yes, really. We need people who LOVE MATH. 🤓
We would LOVE to hear from:
Mathematicians
Math teachers / professors
Engineers
Statisticians
Physics people
Math students
Math club members
People who work with numbers professionally
Or anyone who is just genuinely a big math person
If you are the person who actually gets excited about equations, numbers, problem-solving or math in general, PLEASE tell us about it in your submission!
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HEARD ABOUT US THROUGH YOUR TEAM?
You may have learned about this casting through your swim team, tennis team, math team, coach, club, school or a friend who shared it with you.
If so, we are SO happy to have you here!
You do NOT need to have worked with Casting TaylorMade before to apply.
And if you know teammates, friends or other people who would be a great fit for either of these days, please share this casting call with them!
✂️ HAIR + FACIAL HAIR
If you’re interested in working on CHALLENGER, please STOP cutting your hair at this time!
Longer, grown-out, natural hair gives our Hair & Makeup team much more to work with when creating authentic 1970s and 1980s looks. The same goes for facial hair — let it grow!
There are a lot of different types of roles we’ll be casting throughout this production, so period-appropriate hair and facial hair can absolutely work in your favor.
And no need to text us asking if we saw your submission — we see you. 😉
📸 PLEASE HELP US WITH YOUR PHOTOS
Please upload:
1 CURRENT close-up photo
1 CURRENT full-length photo
Professional photos are NOT needed. Current, clear phone photos are much more helpful to us!
Upload NO MORE THAN 3 photos
NO videos/movies
Make sure we can clearly see your current hair + facial hair
BEFORE uploading to Dropbox, save each photo using your FIRST + LAST NAME as the file name
🚨 Please do not cut or drastically change your hair after submitting (ideally don’t change it AT ALL).
👗 FITTINGS
A costume fitting will be required for booked background performers.
This is an important part of creating the correct period look for each scene.
👞 WARDROBE
Costumes may provide a specific list of clothing, shoes and/or accessories to bring from home, and we would LOVE your help with this.
The more period-appropriate options we have to work with, the better we can build this world together.
📍 FILMING LOCATION: ATLANTA, GA
💵 BACKGROUND RATE: $182/12 hrs
Featured Background Rate will apply to some : $198/12 (everyone qualified that applies will get the opportunity to be upgraded)
+ additional bumps may apply as well depending on the work required.
We’re excited to bring this era to life and would love your help making CHALLENGER look and feel as authentic to the period as possible! 🚀
🌟 CHECK OUT THE ROLES & DETAILS BELOW! 🌟
Please submit your availability + information in the form below. If you’re a match for one of our roles, we’ll reach out via text!
CHALLENGER is a limited series inspired by the true story of the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, exploring the people, ambitions and decisions surrounding America’s space program in the years leading up to the 1986 tragedy and its aftermath.
Spanning the 1970s through the late 1980s, the series is set against a transformative era in American history, from the evolution of NASA and the Space Shuttle program to the culture, fashion and everyday life of the period.
Casting TaylorMade is seeking many different types of background performers to help us tell this story as authentically and historically accurately as possible.
And you know how much we LOVE creating an 1980s world! We’re bringing it 110% for this production, and we’d love your help making this world as authentic as possible. 🚀
📅 ALL FILMING DATES
PLEASE PAY CLOSE ATTENTION TO THE DATES BELOW! Our filming schedule is not always Monday–Friday and does include some Sundays. Please make sure you are looking at the specific dates listed when submitting your availability.
9/27 (SUN)
9/28 (MON)
11/4 (WED) not mandatory to work 9/28
SUBMISSION FORM ✍🏼
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AFTER HITTING SUBMIT IN FORM ABOVE
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📤 BEFORE uploading to Dropbox, save each photo to your computer or phone using your FIRST + LAST NAME as the file name.
☑️ Upload NO MORE THAN 3 photos
🚫 NO videos/movies
👀 Make sure we can clearly see your CURRENT hair + facial hair