{"id":564823,"date":"2026-04-04T21:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T21:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/564823\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T21:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T21:16:09","slug":"ugly-crys-cast-and-filmmaker-talk-about-their-worst-auditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/564823\/","title":{"rendered":"Ugly Cry&#8217;s cast and filmmaker talk about their worst auditions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.avclub.com\/the-substance-review\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Substance<\/a> made its goopy point about the plight of aging actresses in a deeply sexist industry undeniably clear, it opened the door for other satirical films like Ugly Cry\u00a0to track this backwards, to the auditions and worries of those trying to break into the entertainment world. Written and directed by star Emily Robinson in her <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/162040767\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">feature debut<\/a>, the psychological dramedy watches an actress unravel after being told by a producer that she\u2019s pretty\u2026just not when she\u2019s crying (which happens to be pretty key to the role she\u2019s auditioning for). The ensuing crash-out, replete with \u201cpreventative\u201d Botox shots and other face-smoothing feats of freaking out, is both hilarious and harrowing, reflective of the real issues faced by countless put under the superficial microscope of Hollywood. At SXSW where Ugly Cry\u00a0premiered, Robinson and her supporting cast\u2014Robin Tunney, Ryan Simpkins, and Aaron Dominguez\u2014spoke to us about terrible auditions, child acting, and the subtle queerness of their film.<\/p>\n<p>\ufeff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After\u00a0The Substance made its goopy point about the plight of aging actresses in a deeply sexist industry undeniably&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":564824,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[88,206],"class_list":["post-564823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=564823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/564824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}