Pokemon: Route 1 Episode 1 [CASTING CALL] V.2

Pokemon: Route 1 Episode 1 [CASTING CALL] V.2

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POKÉMON: ROUTE 1

He won everything. Now he has to learn why it matters.

At 18, Lewis became the youngest Pokémon Champion in Evergrande League History. Two years and 243 wins later, he became the most hollow.

Trained from childhood by his dying mother to win at any cost, Lewis fought like a machine—because that's what she made him. He raised six Champion-tier Pokémon and couldn't tell you a single thing any of them liked to eat. When she died, he kept winning, because he didn't know how to do anything else.

Then, one night, in front of a sold-out arena, he lost.

POKÉMON: ROUTE 1 begins the day after. Lewis voluntarily relinquishes his entire championship team to the League, packs a single bag, and follows Riley — his childhood best friend and the only person who never stopped pulling for him — to Kanto. With one Bulbasaur, no sponsors, and no idea who he is without a trophy, he begins a real journey. The traditional way. Eight gyms. Wild encounters. Trainers who don't know his name.

Along the way, he meets Trevor — a fourteen-year-old prodigy being pushed by his parents to become exactly what Lewis used to be. Watching Trevor battle is like watching a ghost. It will force Lewis to choose: do you save a kid from your old life, or do you finally let it go?

This is the Pokémon story for the fans who grew up. A character-driven drama about grief, identity, parental pressure, and what it actually means to bond with a Pokémon. The traditional journey, rebuilt around the trainer who already had everything—and is finally learning the part that mattered.

Latest Updates

  • New Promo + Deadline Extension

    Hi Everyone -

    Thank you so much for your auditions. They have been a treat to listen to! I want to create more hype and provide more opportunities for people who haven't had the chance to audition, so I am extending the deadline by two weeks. Please, if you haven't already and want to stay plugged into channel, join the discord!

    https://discord.gg/Q63fNpQkw

    Also, if you haven't checked out any of our promos, we just released a new one! Please comment and like so we can get this amazing show filled with so many wonderful people known to people.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ws2Q1YMd6eE

Project Roles: Ashely Morris (Recurring) Heckler (Episode 1 Feature; Potential Recurring Role) Becky (Episode 1 Feature)
Ashely Morris (Recurring)
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Ashely Morris (Recurring)
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Ashley is Lewis's mother, deceased before the series begins. We only ever see her in flashbacks. She was terminally ill from when Lewis was a child, and she raised him to be Champion—pushing him with a discipline that bordered on cruelty, all of it bound up with love she struggled to express any other way. She is the ghost in the machine of the entire show: every time Lewis is cold to a Pokémon, it is her voice he is echoing.


She is not a villain. She is a frightened, dying woman who tried to give her son something that would outlast her, and the thing she gave him broke him. The performance needs to hold both truths at once.

The Two Registers

Critical to this role: Ashley operates in two completely different vocal modes, often within the same scene, sometimes within the same line. Both must be available to the performer.

Register A — The Trainer

  • Sharp, exacting, impatient. The voice of someone who has zero tolerance for failure.

  • Can be cruel without raising volume—sometimes the quietest cuts are the deepest.

  • Used in training flashbacks. This is the voice that lives in Lewis's head and that we will hear in Trevor by extension.

Register B — The Mother

  • Soft, warm, tired. The voice of someone who is dying and trying to hide it from her child.

  • Tender, sometimes adoring—“my precious boy” should land as genuine, not performative.

  • Used in hospital scenes and quieter memories. This is the voice Lewis is grieving.

Voice Direction

The horror of Ashley is that both registers are real. She is not faking the love. She is not faking the cruelty. She believed she was preparing him. Find the through-line—a mother who weaponized her affection because she was running out of time. Avoid cartoon-villain coldness in Register A; avoid syrupy sweetness in Register B. The performance lives in the truth of both.

  • Side 1 — Hospital, Past (Register B) Setting: A hospital room. Young Lewis (10) bursts in, excited. Ashley turns slowly from the window. She is hooked up to medical equipment. She is dying, and she is hiding it. (somber, with a tinge of sadness) “Hello, my precious boy.” (brightening, but the brightness costs her) “You did? I'm so proud of you. You winning is the best medicine.” (quieter, almost to herself) “Keep going for me. Promise me you'll keep going.”

  • Side 2 — Training Flashback (Register A) Setting: A training field. Young Lewis is exhausted, his Pokémon struggling. Ashley watches from her wheelchair. She does not get up. She does not need to. (flat, dismissive) “Again.” (beat) “You hesitated. I saw you hesitate. You think a Champion hesitates?” (rising, sharpening — never quite a shout) “Pathetic! You'll never be champion battling like this! AGAIN!” (beat, then softening just slightly — the trap of her affection) “...I only push you because I know what you're capable of, Lewis. No one else will.”

  • Side 3 — The Last Conversation (Register A → B → A) Setting: Hospital, late stage. Lewis (16) sits at her bedside. She is going to die soon, and they both know it. This is the conversation that will haunt him. (weak, but the steel is still there) “Come closer. I don't have the breath to repeat myself.” (beat — she looks at him, really looks) “You are going to be Champion. Do you understand me? Not someday. Soon.” (softening — Register B bleeding through) “I won't be there to see it. But I need to know it before I go. I need to know you'll do it.” (taking his hand, almost tender) “Promise me, Lewis. Promise your mother.” (and then, the steel snapping back — quiet, exact) “Don't cry. Champions don't cry.”

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Heckler (Episode 1 Feature; Potential Recurring Role)
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Heckler (Episode 1 Feature; Potential Recurring Role)
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The Heckler is the show telling on Lewis. He is a fan who has paid for season tickets and is bored out of his mind watching a champion fight without soul. He is the first person in the audience to articulate what is wrong with Lewis. When Marcus pulls off the upset, the Heckler is the first to lose his mind — and the rest of the crowd follows him.

He is funny. He is loud. He is right.

Voice Description

  • Gruff, lived-in, expressive — give him a regional flavor if you have one

  • Can swing from total disengagement (“not enough beer in the world”) to ecstatic (“LET'S GOOOOO!”) within the same scene

  • Should sound like someone you have actually sat next to at a sporting event

  • “Why the hell did you make me buy season tickets to this?”

  • “Not enough beer in the world could make this match any more entertaining. The kid fights with no soul, no passion. Just calculated. Cold.”

  • “LET'S GOOOOO!”

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Becky (Episode 1 Feature)
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Plainspoken, grounded, opinionated in the dry way only long-married rural women can be. Has thoughts on Lewis, on Pokémon, on everything. Probably the smarter of the two but never makes Tom feel it. Her single “Tom!” at the end of the scene is the emotional pivot of the entire cliffhanger—go small and real, not movie-frightened.Voice Description

  • Dry warmth, slow, comfortable in her own skin

  • “I reckon” should land natural, not performed

  • One real-life-scared moment (“Tom!”)—without going theatrical

  • “Kid had it coming eventually, I reckon. I just can't believe he's getting rid of his Pokémon, though.”

  • “Tom!” (Real alarm; not small)

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