{"id":222349,"date":"2022-03-14T15:42:27","date_gmt":"2022-03-14T15:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/former-disneyland-performer-says-she-was-rejected-at-her-12th-character-audition-because-her-eyes-were-too-round"},"modified":"2022-03-14T15:42:27","modified_gmt":"2022-03-14T15:42:27","slug":"former-disneyland-performer-says-she-was-rejected-at-her-12th-character-audition-because-her-eyes-were-too-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/former-disneyland-performer-says-she-was-rejected-at-her-12th-character-audition-because-her-eyes-were-too-round","title":{"rendered":"Former Disneyland performer says she was rejected at her 12th character audition because her &#8216;eyes were too round&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Melanie in costume as Drizella at Disneyland. Melanie Insider spoke with current and former Disney parks performers about their audition experiences. A former performer said a director told her that her &#8216;eyes were too round&#8217; to play a character. When performers are cut from Disney auditions, most of the time, there&#8217;s no feedback at all. Landing a role at the Disney theme parks isn&#8217;t easy, and former employees say you shouldn&#8217;t expect much feedback at auditions. But one former Disneyland performer said she went out of her way to request feedback &#8212; and a casting director told her that her &#8220;eyes were too round.&#8221; A former performer said a casting director gave her vague feedback at her 12th failed audition Melanie auditioned for the Disney parks 13 times before landing a role as one of Cinderella&#8217;s stepsisters at Disneyland. Her last name has been withheld for privacy reasons &#8212; Insider has verified her identity as well as her employment at<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melanie auditioned for the Disney parks 13 times before being cast as a stepsister, and she said the feedback from casting directors wasn&#8217;t helpful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1],"tags":[19,21],"class_list":["post-222349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-news","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}