I THINK I FOUND HIM!

Pardon the all-caps title, but I AM shouting, because I think I found my lead.

Taped audition, from a NY-based actor-friend of the woman I just cast in the female lead role... and he totally gets it. It's not a perfect performance, but it was VERY good, and he can obviously act. With some direction, I think he will be wonderful.

He looks nothing at all like the lead, but I think we can make it work, if he's willing to do some physical/appearance-changing stuff.

I have to watch his tape with Producer and discuss the financials (we have to add a ticket from NY and a hotel stay to an already-stretched budget), but I think we can make it work, and of course, it'll be worth it.

More later, when I talk to Producer and the actor.