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Piercing my ears as a male-presenting actor by a-sentient-meme • last post Sep 6th
I want to get my ears pierced, I am aware of the 6 week timeframe and that should be fine, but is it going to be a problem for acting on camera? I audition for both live theatre and camera work, and I'd like to keep both available to me. I've had male friends in live theatre have pierced ears and just take them out on stage, but what about for commercials, TV, etc.?
Balding as a young actor by letheatredude • last post Sep 6th
Title says it all. I'm 23 and going bald. It's gotten to the point where I've been buzzing my head because having my hair long looks bad. My doctor won't prescribe me finasteride because she doesn't think I need it, and I can't go on rogaine or minoxidil because I have cats and I don't want them to get sick from it. I still look really young, especially when I shave my beard. I played kid parts when I was in college and I definitely could play teenagers until I'm in my 30s with my baby face. But now that I have a buzzcut, a thinning and receding hairline, and a beard I don't know if I'm still the same "type" or if my type has changed because of my physical appearance. Aaaaaand I should probably get new headshots, shouldn't I?
aspiring actor in new york here. i have some questions about acting classes (tv/film vs theater) by annaleecage • last post Sep 6th
I am an inexperienced actor. Would like to apologize in advance if I sound a bit ignorant. I am looking to enroll in acting classes here in New York. I mainly want to focus on film/tv jobs than theater. I am looking at two acting schools/studios, HB and Barrow. If I wanted to pursue just film and tv, should I take specific class for that or regardless of which platform I want to focus on, is it a good idea to enroll in their basic beginner acting class? I guess my confusion stems from the fact that I am not clearly sure if training will be different for the specific platform or is it all one and the same and whatever beginner class you take, it will be beneficial regardless of where you want to take your acting career, on stage or in front of a camera. Would love to hear from you.
(Short Film) Looking for Male and Female actors in LA/Ventura! by bondwad • last post Sep 5th
*Non-profit and unpaid/low-pay *NO EXPERIENCE NEEDED Ages ~20-25 Hello r/acting! I'm not part of the community so forgive me if this type of post is annoying. My friend is directing an indie short film taking place primarily in the Ventura/oxnard area. She is looking for 9 actors in total (4 female and 5 male roles) The project has essentially zero budget and will be filmed with my Sony A6400 camera. Actors/actresses of all race, ethnicity, sexuality, shapes and sizes are welcome! Hoping to begin filming ASAP while we still have the summer sun to our advantage! It's really a passion project of the director, so if you're just looking for some experience maybe this could be your thing! :) Please DM me if you're interested!
Reenactment scene that I did. by harshreality35 • last post Sep 5th
I'm an actor from VA and I made this reenactment scene from Toyko Drift. I thought I would share with you guys. I just recently started my youtube channel. ​ [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wiG4\_LAgak](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wiG4_LAgak)
Building a resume by DeeRey__ • last post Sep 5th
Hello everyone. I’m in the inland empire of Southern California looking to build a resume. Any aspiring film makers who need actors, I will work for free. We can help each other. I have no experience in acting but I’m pursuing it. I don’t know anyone in the business but I will work my ass off to give you what you need as film maker. Thank you in advance
Feeling used by a photographer in the beginning of my career. by hoehoehoe96 • last post Sep 5th
I’ve wanted to share this story for years but I’ve never found any proper sub to get to talk about it without feeling like I would be judged. But I just realized that I could write about it here because I feel like this is a safe space and it has to do with the beginning of my acting career. I feel like maybe other actors at least will understand me a little compared to “regular” people. I (M, now 30) moved out to LA when I was 20. I remember my first year, on my way to my acting school one day being stopped by a photographer (Male, 45-50 years) who happened to live on the same street as me. He lived in a luxury apartment, compared to my rather shitty building (reason I’m saying this is that because of that, it was clear to me that he did actually do photography and not just a “photographer”). I remember him telling me I could be a model. I laughed because already back then I knew that I was NOT a model type. I’m not ugly but certainly not a model. And I told him that. He was like “every time I tell people this, they think I’m talking about modeling for big fashion brands. There are tons of regular models for regular stores such as Ross, Target etc etc.” Fair enough. But I still didn’t have any interest in modeling. However we saw each other a couple of more times and he gave me his info if I ever needed any free headshots. I googled him and he was the main photographer for a soap opera on a network (taking character pics etc) so he was legit. Fast forward 4 years. I had been back to my home country for a couple of years and had just moved back to LA with a work visa this time. Even though I had some great headshots and didn’t really need new headshots, I figured I’d hit him up. Me being naiv thought it was good connecting with someone having connection. And though it feels like me being 24 at the time, I was old enough to know better but apparently I wasn’t. I remember him having his studio in the living room. And there was a small camera on the kitchen table, and I asked if he was recording on that. He got little nervous and said no. I should’ve just then and there left, I don’t know why i didn’t. I’m pretty sure I made him move the camera. Tbh I don’t remember, this was like 7 years ago and this whole memory is pretty tortures. But I must have had him at least turn the camera away! We were taking photos and he wanted me to change to other attire, and so I did. But he wanted me to change without underwear’s. I was just caught off guard and didn’t think rationally. So I did. He then told me to take face pics in front of the cameras with only underwear’s. To have my hands inside the underwear’s, because it gives an intensity in the eyes. Sounds so stupid. Then he wanted me to take the underwear of “I have other actors do this all the time. There’s an intensity when you’re nude while only the face is showing. Those always turn out the best headshots”. I was just stuck in that moment and I so wish I could go back in time and tell myself “Don’t buy the bs that he has had other actors do this all the time. It’s not true”, but I did. And I know 100% that he took full nudes even though he pretended it was only face shots. I was super uncomfortable and I could see the cam lean downwards a little. But it was just too late. And the fucked up thing is that, even though it felt wrong, I still didn’t see the magnitude of the problem. “Other of his actors have done it” was what I constantly excused it with for myself. I think I was kinda in denial about the whole situation. And I even contacted him a couple of months later for something unrelated. I don’t know what. But there came a turning point where it all caught up with me and I realized how naive and stupid I had been. And it’s been eating at me for all those years. It’s literally haunting me. I feel exposed, taken advantaged off, and somehow like it was my fault. When I read stories of other people, I have judged them like “oh please, you fell for the sleazy photographer trick? You should’ve known better.” What makes me especially feel worse is that I contacted him a couple of months later. Like, wth was I thinking? I have a lot of anger and resentment towards him and have had for many years. It takes a lot for me to not just write to him on his social media and just curse him out but I don’t want to do that. I don’t want to open that can of worms. What if he leaks the photos out of revenge. I just feel so used. Also something else that haunts me is, now that I’m getting booked more and more, he could easily just leak those photos and there’d be nude photos of me out there. I feel terrible about my body and junk, and just the humiliation alone makes me fear just the chance he’d do that. And he’d get away with it, because who would question why he has those photos? He could literally say “look, he’s voluntarily standing naked in my studio because that’s what we agreed upon”. I dont know what I want with this post. I’m just happy that I finally can talk with some strangers about this and get some comments about something that’s been only in my head alone for so many years.
AA Resume Profile is searchable by google? by mixednuts24 • last post Sep 5th
If you create the link of your actors access profile to share, then it will come out as search result on google when you search your name? I didn't create the link and it is not searchable by google but I've seen numerous actors' actors access profile showed up public on google search result when I search with their name and sometimes the name doesn't match but still show up. I want to share the profile but doesn't want it to show up on google search. What should I do? Does any of you know how it works? Should I make link and share and may be deactivate the link after 1\~2 weeks before google crawl the page may be?
Is it really okay to just... audition? by Jfoy__ • last post Sep 5th
If I'm a new aspiring voice actor, with not much behind my name, is it really fine to just audition on, say, Casting Call Club etc.? Is it seen as "ballsy," or presumptuous, to do so? I had gotten tips that I shouldn't make a demo reel with very little knowledge or experience as it won't be well-made nor representative of my skillset, but other than that, I don't know what else I should really have to my name.
Did anyone here start with minimal social media presence? by dillcoq • last post Sep 5th
Just wondering if anyone here was able to get a start in acting without a big social media presence? eg. someone who doesn't use Facebook and has 100 instagram followers. I know in the past this wasn't a big deal, but I've read that recently when trying to break into acting it seems roles are distributed based on instagram followers rather than the actual talent of the actor. Just curious if anyone here earns a living acting that started off with little social media presence. Totally understandable that it could increase after being cast a few times, and booking projects.
Actors - how aware are you of the other character’s lines? by xoaku • last post Sep 5th
Do you like to memorize the other character’s lines alone with your own? Are you just somewhat aware of their lines or do you not know them at all? I feel my responses are something more natural when I forget the other characters lines but it also can create a problem of over stepping when I think they’re done with their lines but they’re not, etc. I’ve never taken the time to actually memorize the other character’s lines completely.
Acting on multiple takes by normalguyonreddit1 • last post Sep 5th
Since most scenes are comprised of many takes, and then edited together to make it look like one continuous string of events, do actors have to try and act the same on each take? Do they have to replicate their same mannerisms and how they talk for continuity sake?
Does film school teach acting and is a degree in film helpful for a actor to have by edarine • last post Sep 5th
Voice actor (hopefully) looking for demo/script by jotunulv • last post Sep 5th
Hi people- I was wondering if anyone might know of useful sources to get anime and commercial scripts from for me to make my first demo? I've done some voice work sporadically on podcasts and fan made YouTube animations. Genuinely I've found the whole process of creating a demo rather daunting and have talked myself out of it a number of times from bit knowing where to start. I perhaps sound a bit silly. I have a strong and very versatile voice but have been held back by my inferior grasp of life admin aspects. All suggestions are welcome and appreciated. Thanks in advance! D
Is it common for directors to be verbally abusive to actors? by Eriflee • last post Sep 5th
Today, I was supposed to take part in a 3-episode production (15 mins each) about careers in the IT and computer field When we met the director last week, he was polite. He asked many questions, voiced his concerns about our schedule, and wanted to know if we had any worries etc. In short, he seemed like a pretty good guy so my colleague and I (with our bosses' blessings) took up the gig. We were only paid for transportation and meals but we did it anyway because we liked the idea of the show Come today and holy crap, the director was yelling at his crew in the first 10 mins of shooting. "Where the hell is Albert?! I need the toolkit!" "Who's doing crowd control?!" "Lighting crew! What the hell are you doing?!" and so on After an hour, my colleague's phone vibrated during a scene. The director literally flung the director's cone on the floor and stomped off. In another scene, I got a line wrong about 5 times (take note I am NOT a trained actor), and the director pointed at me and yelled, "The hell do you think you are doing?! Do you not understand basic English?!" I reined in my temper. Maybe the director was just having a bad day 3 hours into shooting, my colleague and I were supposed to split up and walk in a certain way but we walked in the wrong direction. The director kicked a chair down and started cussing before stomping off again My colleague and I pulled off our mics and told the producer "Yeah we aren't putting up with this" The producer did a half-hearted plead before saying "Alright, just do whatever you want." The crew didn't even try to stop us. The director tried calling us later but I've just set his number to be put on "ignore" This is the first time I am taking part in a film production. Is it normal for directors to be so verbally abusive? I can't imagine what actors and actresses have to go through
Actors who have ADHD by hoehoehoe96 • last post Sep 4th
So I have been diagnosed bipolar II and been on meds for 18 months. But I think that I might have ADHD as well. Since I was a kid, whenever I heard about ADHD I always thought “that’s me”. My two biggest “problems” was that I could NEVER focus during class. Like impossible. But I do feel now that I’m 30 that I can focus a little better (when I’m in class doing something I love, as in acting). But if I read a book for instance, I will read a full page before realizing that I’ve been zooming out and not even paid attention to what I read, then I reread and realize again and again and again the same problem. In my acting classes, my peers and teachers always joke about how I can’t stand still when I’m on stage, both while acting but even while actually just standing there afterwards getting notes. Literally, I’m a walking machine. And everybody make it sound so easy “just be still.”, but I can’t just be still. It’s not me deciding the movement, it’s my body moving automatically. I feel like even when I act in front of the camera, my face and body wants to move. But when I’m sick, those days I feel so good in my body because it doesn’t want to move and distract me, and my acting gets so much better. So my question to those who have ADHD, do you recognize the movements I described as distraction when acting, and if so, did your body stop moving that much and you started being able to be standing still after diagnoses/meds? I guess my question is, does the meds help your acting?
We Talk Funny returns! by AKComic • last post Sep 4th
We Talk Funny, the long-running popular live voiceover comedy show in Burbank, CA - which featured some of the biggest voice actors in the world - has unfortunately been on hiatus since the pandemic began… but no more! We Talk Funny has returned - in podcast form! The new show just premiered today with FIVE new episodes, chock full of voice acting advice, comedy & geeky goodness! Featuring: - Jon Allen (anime VA from “Dragon Ball Super”) - Carlos Alazraqui (“Rocko’s Modern Life”, “Fairly OddParents”, voice of the Taco Bell Chihuahua) - Wally Wingers (voice of The Riddler from the “Batman: Arkham” video games) - Darcy Rose Byrnes (Disney’s “Sophia the First, Nickelodeon’s “The Legend of Korra”) - Andy Merrill (voice of Brak from “Space Ghost: Coast to Coast” and Oglethorpe from “Aqua Teen Hunger Force”) New episodes premiere every Saturday morning; listen and subscribe at [WeTalkFunnyLive.com](http://www.wetalkfunnylive.com)!
[PAID WORK] Looking for someone who might be able to do an evil-ish Orson Welles impression! by not_your_platypus • last post Sep 4th
At the end of October, I am opening up a pop-up art gallery/record store in Brooklyn, NY as part of a grant I received from the New York Foundation for the Arts. The project involves a fictional intergalactic record label, lots of original music and art, and a villain who has his own musical aspirations. As part of the experience of the event, this evil villain has released his own song with a sort of spoken word intro (more of a decree). I am looking to hire a voice actor who can do an evil-ish Orson Welles impression (slightly more evil than The Brain) and read a short script that is about 45 seconds to a minute long. I am open to negotiating a fee for your time and effort as this will be remote work and it might take a few takes to get close to the sound I'm looking for. I can start my offer at $75, but I am willing to negotiate and get you a good price for your hard work! Please DM me or leave a comment below if you are interested in doing this! I can pay through PayPal, Zelle, Cash App, etc.
Requesting Advice in Order to Not Be Taken Advantage Of by deepdarkboys • last post Sep 4th
Hi Voiceacting Community. I'm at a very important crossroads, so I want to thank you in advance for reading. I am an amateur, freelance voice actor. I typically work on Fiverr. My rate is $5 per 250 words, and if the client wants the work done inside of 48 hours, I double the rate. Since I am not a professional, I feel this is a comfortable rate that works for both me and my clients. I recently landed my first major gig. I won an audition to become the new voice of a YouTube channel that recaps films. They had to switch from an AI-generated voice in order to avoid demonetization. The owner of the channel is paying me $40 per script. The scripts are always over 2,000 words, which means I'm operating at a cut rate. I figure maybe it's worth it, given that the work is consistent. But here's the thing. He needs one of these scripts done (10-15 minutes of fully polished audio) every single day. And he only gets them to me 24 hours before he needs them back. So in addition to cutting my rate for him, I'm also getting no bonus for absurd turnaround times. He's now saying that he wants me to record my face for every video, as well. He wants me to at least set up a green screen and look into camera to recite the unique intro for each vid, and now he's saying he'd like it if I did Picture in Picture for the entirety of the video (which makes no sense, because then I can't have my mic in it's proper recording space, and I have to nail everything in one take). He's effectively got me running the channel on my own at this point. And paying me what feels like a tiny, fractional amount for it. The videos all get more than 1 million hits.. I'm not sure what that equates to on YouTube, profit-wise, but I feel it's a good deal more than 40 dollars. I don't want to be greedy, but I also don't want to get taken for a ride here.. I have a full-time job outside of voice acting. Doing these scripts every day eats up the majority of my free time. Thanks again everyone for reading :) I've only been at this for about 8 months now so it's important to me to find guidance.
Acting classes in Orange County/Long Beach by Automatic_Attitude58 • last post Sep 4th
Im a beginner actress looking for a good acting studio. Most of the recommendations from people on this subreddit in LA are around an hour away from me. Is there any reputable acting studios around the OC or Long Beach area or do I have to go to LA to find good acting classes?