From Mermaid Extra to Casting Director, Meet Atlanta-Based Heather Taylor
Today, the Atlanta-based casting director and owner of Casting TaylorMade just wrapped work on Season 1 of the Apple+ TV series “Cape Fear” at Assembly Studios in Doraville, Georgia, starring Amy Adams and Javier Bardem. We sat down with her to learn about the journey, her home base in metro Atlanta, and what advice she has for others hoping to break into the film industry in Georgia and beyond.
By Carol Badaracco Padgett
In 2011, in her early days in the film and television industry, Heather Taylor was swimming in a huge tank of water in a hotel lobby in Miami. She got the film gig as a mermaid on a tip from a friend.
Today, the Atlanta-based casting director and owner of Casting TaylorMade just wrapped work on Season 1 of the Apple+ TV series “Cape Fear” at Assembly Studios in Doraville, Georgia, starring Amy Adams and Javier Bardem.
We sat down with her to learn about the journey, her home base in metro Atlanta, and what advice she has for others hoping to break into the film industry in Georgia and beyond.
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