Taylor Ortega was filming Another Simple Favor on location in Italy when she got the opportunity to audition for a new comedy series — Dan Levy‘s Big Mistakes. It seemed like a perfect fit: the character was her age, from a similar New Jersey hometown, with a personality description eerily similar to her own. She enlisted the help of her castmates to put together a self-tape. “I was in Italy for a month, so I was doing a lot of tapes while I was there, and at one point I had to do a live Zoom audition and had Alex Newell as my reader,” she tells The Hollywood Reporter. “Sometimes you have a Tony winner at your disposal and you just have to beg them to help you.” Then, she tried her best to level-set her expectations.
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