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Making the Transition from Acting Training to Working!

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Working actors

Here are 6 guidelines that will help take the mystery out of launching your career:

  1. CHOOSE YOUR STRONGEST TALENT. Match that to the market that would provide the best opportunity.
  2. INVEST in yourself! Get the best photos, resume, demo reel and website. Get advice on your type and castability before shooting. Know the roles you can play and show that in your photos.
  3. TAKE CLASSES first in the areas in which you haven’t yet trained and are the most practical.
  4. SEEK A MENTOR TO GUIDE YOU. This could be a Marketing Mentor, Career coach, a Casting Director or an acting teacher with knowledge of marketing.
  5. MAKE A MARKETING PLAN. Research and create a list of all agents, casting directors, and current Prime Time, Daytime shows and Films in production. Do a Google search and set goals.
  6. MEET THE INDUSTRY when you’re ready. It’s best to wait until your marketing tools are up-to-speed and then get a referral to an agent.

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Val Kilmer on Breaking into Hollywood

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Val Kilmer

“Work till you cry yourself to sleep every night for months on end. Work so hard you pass out and wake up crying. Become a world class athlete. Read Shakespeare every day to learn about human nature. EVERY DAY. FOR DECADES. Never, ever, ever, ever, ever take a day off. And never complain. It’s the best job on earth and worth it when you break through. They say Dustin Hoffman couldn’t act his way out of a paper bag, and I knew Kevin Spacey since he was like 15 and he was sooooooooooo bad it used to hurt my eyes. But boy did he work hard and deserves all his awards.”

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Oscar Isaac on Acting

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Oscar Isaac

When asked how preparing for this role is different than his other performances, Isaac says, “You allow yourself to let go of the responsibility of having to hit anything. It’s a scary thing to do but you know what? If you’re trying to get a scene right it just might not happen. We might all be up here on a mountain and it won’t be worth filming what comes out. Once you allow that it takes the pressure off and you can be a little more honest in your process. I read a lot about the events portrayed in the film and listened to the stories of survivors who saw grandmothers bayoneted, dead babies left under trees, mass rapes and people being marched out into the desert to their execution. Hearing them describe these horrors first hand was humbling. So, when you’re in that moment in the scene you don’t have to try so hard to imagine what these people suffered. On the day I had to stay easy and loose but also concentrated. It’s a very different experience to shooting X-Men: Apocalypse.”

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Michaela Watkins on her Role in ‘Casual’

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Michaela Watkins

 

“When Casual came about and I auditioned for it, and I found out I got it, I was so thrilled, because it was exactly what I wanted to do next. It was like the exact thing I wanted. I love all the work I do, the opportunities, and those are all wonderful, and I get to do some really fun roles. But that’s it. They’re fun roles that sort of pop in, give some information, and then the story continues, and then they leave. I felt like I really want to chew the meat. I just really want to get to know somebody in a consistent way.”

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Katherine Waterston on the Tough Times

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Katherine Waterston

When asked if she knows why she doesn’t receive more recognition for her work, Waterston points to her early days a struggling actress in New York and how some things haven’t changed in terms of her attitude toward her work. She says, “Self-promotion is not my strong suit, for sure. I don’t look down on it; I just don’t understand how to do it. All those years working and not working in New York—sure, it was painful, but it was also such a personal process for me because no one was paying attention. Obviously, that was difficult financially, but I’m grateful I was left alone with my work for a number of years. It’s more pleasant not to have to defend or explain yourself so much. A lot of what we do is hard to put into words. And I find that I come up short or disappoint myself in trying to even talk about it. There’s an attitude in Hollywood that those are the tough years, and these are the breezy, easy years, but it’s actually a little more complicated than that. The hell of rejection and panicking about whether you’ve really fucked it all up by pursuing a life in the arts, that stuff’s tough, but there’s also a wonderful solace in it. You get to be alone with your work.”

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Tracy Letts on Turning Down Acting Work

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Tracy Letts

Letts explains that turning down roles doesn’t reflect his financial situation — it has more to do with his desire to do the work. He explains, “It pre-supposes a certain financial comfort, which I haven’t always enjoyed. I didn’t make any real money until I was in my forties, when August: Osage County hit, so there’s always been economic considerations to work prior to that. But I think some of it is just a mindset, too, where you sit there and you say, ‘It’s not worth it. It’s not worth the agonizing, it’s not worth sleepless nights, it’s not worth doing work that I’m not proud of.’ Ultimately, economic considerations be damned if it’s really not worth it.”

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Jon Favreau: “Acting is the closest thing you’ll get to an apprenticeship for directing”

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Jon Favreau

Through acting Favreau learned how to become a director, and he suggests that aspiring directors become actors first. He points out, “Acting is the closest thing you’ll get to an apprenticeship for directing because you’re actually on set watching the director do what they do. When you go to school for directing, you rarely have the luxury of actually shadowing and watching someone else who’s doing it well. But because I was on so many sets, I got to learn whose style I liked.”

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