CASTING FILM PROJECT LEAD ROLE (US)

For a Columbia University thesis film project. Award winning director & producer. We are looking for the LEAD ROLE:
– Latinx Man 65+ who looks like someone who’s worked many years as a manual worker (rough face, rough hands, scars, etc…).
No acting experience required.
[CASSIUS] | LEAD | Latinx man of 65-70s, passive, deadpan, lonesome, beaten down by life from years of hard manual labor. Despite his impassive demeanor, there is a deep story shining behind his eyes but in order to be able to live he detaches himself from his emotions and hides his anxieties. Although his physical shape is becoming increasingly weaker, he still gets up every evening to start his night shift as a garbage collector for a private trash removal company and he is proud of it. He is proud to have a reason to feel respectable. He has been a garbage collector for over 40 years. He lives alone with his bird Flike in a low-income housing in the Bronx and looks away every day trying to avoid the obvious misery and crimes of his neighborhood. He is on the edge of becoming what he fears the most: a pariah, a marginal, a homeless. When he is laid off and loses his footing, he is too proud to let himself sink so he prefers to take his own life on his own terms.
PAID ACTING JOB : at least 125$ per day + travel and meals provided! USA
Place and date to determine
Send us your pictures (headshot / no smiling) and contact info:
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