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They don’t get to be in the band, but as actors, they do a lot to support their nonprofessional castmates.

Burke believes that his own interest in these people, often played by nonprofessional actors in his work, can translate to audiences.

He and three other nonprofessional astronauts will embark on a mission called Polaris Dawn, which may launch next month.

As he did for his award-winning prison film, “Michael Inside,” Berry used nonprofessional actors with intimate experience of the system — here, Ireland’s International Protection Office, which processes asylum applications — he wanted to depict.

To give the film authenticity, Çatak recruited nonprofessional actors to play students in the film but knew that their teacher, Carla, needed to avoid the narrative tropes of the “worn out” educator.