What does a reality TV 'casting producer' do?

What does a reality TV 'casting producer' do?

I think a reality TV casting person has a bigger challenge than a regular casting agent, who's just doing a cattle call for actors and actresses. I don't mean to downgrade what those people do, but in reality TV, when you're dealing with people who you have no track record about, just based on interview and personal history, you're projecting how they're going to be on camera down the line when put into certain pressure situations. That's the beauty of it because when somebody cracks, or when somebody gets emotional, or when somebody falls for somebody else, or when somebody rises to the occasion, sometimes the casting person would have spoken for you before the reality show began and would say to you, "This is your crier, this is your hero, this is the person that's going to get lost, and this is the person that's going to get angry." That takes quite a bit of 25 cent psychology to suss somebody out, who you've never met before, and just work off of gut reaction: their physical appearance, the way they talk, their psychological profile. Casting is actually a pretty complicated scenario.