PREVO Proven101 people turned out
Premieres Thursday, September 24 · 8 AM ETNow streaming on PREVOFree for a month with code THEACTORWAIT, then $5.99 a month. The Actor premieres Thursday at 8 AM ET.First month free with code THEACTOR, then $5.99 a month. Cancel any time.
The story
One audition. One dog. All of New York in the way.
PREVO Proven101 people turned out
How they made it
Streets, neighborhoods and locations all over New York, shot in four days.
An Angénieux Optimo zoom, inspired by Succession. It never once came off the camera.
Nothing set down in public, camera handheld. Get in, get the shot, get out.
Six things to spot
Every audition location in the film is The Barrow Group in New York, where Alexander studied directing and met the entire cast.
A nod to Frances Ha. The DP shot it standing up through a car sunroof while the producer drove down 38th and 36th Streets, two of Midtown’s busiest.
The guy in the back is director Alexander Hagani.
The station manager who says “the dog’s gotta go in the bag” is the film’s production designer. Between takes, tourists kept asking the station manager for directions.
A real southbound R at 8 AM on a Saturday, ridden into Brooklyn with the camera rolling. Nobody on board batted an eye.
L’Industrie Pizzeria, shot one morning as they prepped to open. By the time the crew wrapped, the line was already down the block.
Watch it on PREVO
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The turnout
101 people have saved their seats. PREVO Proven101 people have turned out for The Actor. PREVO Proven
The first film on PREVO to go PREVO Proven – within two weeks of its premiere.
Everyone who turned out for The Actor unlocked everything it could earn, all the way up to the PREVO Proven laurel, which it keeps for good. Know Alexander? Look what you did.
Alex H. · + 100 more
PREVO Proven – one hundred people. Subscribers who joined through this film, plus members who watched it and left a Note. One person counts once, and nothing else counts at all. First names only; email prevo@prevostreaming.com to be left off.
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After the credits
Under every film on PREVO there is a comment box. Rate the film and write a Note. It goes straight to Alexander Hagani and lives on the film’s page. Watch The Actor.
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