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How do I tell my agents I don’t want to do MOW, TV Christmas Movies, and Cheesy Network Movies? by IVLO11 • last post Jul 7th
I’m a Toronto based actor and several MOW productions and Network TV Movies shoot. I always get auditions for roles in these cheesy hallmark movies and it’s not really the material or projects that interest me. I’m not necessarily in this for the money. I want to tell great stories and be part of projects I really like. I’ve been lucky to have my first 3 union jobs being HUGE Network productions. Though my roles are small, they are Netflix, CBS, and Paramount +, jobs. That is the type of work I want. How do I communicate this to my agent without having them think that I think I’m too good for those parts? It’s just not what I want to do. Any tips help!
Next step by iovoko • last post Jul 7th
I have short scenes written for a reel. I have a good mic and an editing app. I have agencies I’d like to submit to. I have a photographer I’d like to do headshots. What I DON’T have is the order in which I’m supposed to do these things. Reel, headshots, actors access, agent? That seems to be the logical progression. However I don’t know if I should wait to get headshots because I’m growing my hair out, and it’s easy for me to tan. What if I look very different in six months and I’ve wasted a ton of money? What am I supposed to do for my reel? I’ll look the same in all of my scenes. Shoot some now, some later? As for submitting for roles on my own, I need the previous things. So that’s a catch 22. To get an agent, I need the previous three things. It’s worth noting that the theatre and filming scene where I live is dead. I’m really lost here.
Award-winning voice actor Ray Porter discusses narrating female voices by ce-19 • last post Jul 7th
Friend refuses to get a day job by rebeccazone • last post Jul 7th
I have a friend who's an actor. She was doing ok before the pandemic, some plays and bits, paying her rent. During the pandemic, obviously there was no work. And she collected unemployment and sold her car. She was venting to me last night. Now that the world is opening, she says she can't take some acting jobs because she doesn't have a car. I ask her if she's trying to get a car. I asked her if she's been applying for other types of jobs. She says she's willing to do anything but nobody calls her back when she applies to Target or whatever. But also she doesn't want to do anything else besides act.... so I feel like she's not really trying to do anything. ​ I tell her she could always get a day job that's flexible and audition and save for a car. And she kinda just dismissed that. ​ Is the economy that bad? Is it hard to get a basic day job or retail job you don't care about? Is it ok to hold on to your dreams and hope? ​ \*\*\*\*Also she's dating a guy in a similar situation job wise who doesn't leave his apt ever and she just goes over and sleeps over occasionally. Whew
I am a tiny bit « Famous » but make no money out of it. How do I fix that? by FurmidableCat • last post Jul 7th
I wouldn’t call myself famous, but a lot of people I don’t know know who I am because of my work. They recognize me on the street, a lot of people in the industry know who I am because of the Facebook groups I manage, I have done a couple of interviews for radio and TV shows, even signed some autographs and did some pictures with some fans, etc. I also once stood out so much as an extra that strangers recognized me in public! But the problem is: this tiny bit of fame doesn’t help me get work as an actor. I don’t even have 500 followers on Instagram, I don’t have Tik Tok at all, I am mostly known on Facebook but it is worthless nowadays, and I don’t get hired for this tiny bit of fame. I can’t get work as a « normal » person because people know me but I don’t get work as a public personality either. I don’t even like being famous because it leads to so much harassment. I would accept it if I got work thanks to it, but that’s not even happening. How can I use this little bit of « Fame » to get more work as an actor?
WeAudition/Readers by gregieb429 • last post Jul 7th
I signed up for WeAudition to help with self-tapes and I saw that you could sign up to be a reader and I thought it would be a good way to make money on the side/gain experience reading. Is that a good way to get experience or would people prefer more experienced actors read with them
Alex Duong actor out of Texas? by Plzdontbanmelol • last post Jul 7th
Does anyone know this guy? He’s been bombarding my wife with racist messages which is crazy when he’s a minority himself (Asian). We are African American and just want this to end... he is destroying our businesses online as well. Thanks...
sign with nyc agent? by Timely_mermaid • last post Jul 7th
I am an actor based in LA. I just graduated from a top MFA program in the US and have an opportunity to sign with an NYC-based agent. I really don't want to leave Los Angeles, but this is really my only option right now to be getting good auditions. She doesn't really have connections to the LA market. My cousin has an address in Brooklyn so I always have a place to stay - is it worth it to sign on as a local hire?
Thinking of being a voice actor along with two others for a series I’m going to make, but will three voice actors be enough for several characters? by Shade_M8 • last post Jul 7th
Title says it all. I’m not much of an actor but I don’t have very many options right now so I suppose I’ll have to try as well. My series is going to have A LOT of characters in it (10 or more), and I’m not sure if 3-4 actors would really be enough. I do plan on using audacity for a little bit of tone changing, but I’m still sort of unsure and would appreciate some advice =)
I've used castingcall.club a few times to find English speaking voice actors but what about other languages (particularly Chinese)? by JeffNevington • last post Jul 6th
I'd like to cast some Chinese voice over actors and I've had a great experience with [castingcall.club](https://castingcall.club) in the past for English speaking. Can anyone recommend equivalent sites that deal predominantly in foreign languages (not just Chinese but also German, French, Russian, Spanish & Japanese would be of interest too).
I did a voice over project with a couple of voice actors and I was wondering if it looks alright. by Christian_Lizotte • last post Jul 6th
After these several long grueling months of editing, recording, and audio mixing, I am pleased to announce that my Finding Nemo reimagined dub for the shark scene is finished. Featuring the voice talents of Iraaj Majumdar, Stanislav Flesherov, JBC (Jim Cady), wmcm, and Zelda Black, we invite you to a mystical world you've never seen before. Filled with guilt-ridden sharks, frightful clownfish, and most importantly forgetful blue tangs, this is one adventure you will never forget. Any advice or feedback would be greatly appreciated. Also, remember, fish are friends not food! [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVp-9-zxN\_A](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVp-9-zxN_A)
[PAID] 2 GIGS. Looking for voice actors(male) by baconatoroc • last post Jul 6th
This is a paid gig. 2 separate jobs available for a short animated buddy comedy (22 minutes). DESCRIPTION: Gig #1: Male, Upbeat, confident, and professional News anchor includes 7 separate lines paying $10 per line for a total of $70.00 USD.. (These lines are a bit longer can range from 2-5 sentences but average 3) Gig #2: Male, Older grizzly southern police commissioner. Includes 12 separate lines paying $5 per line for a total of $60.00 USD. (These lines consist mostly of short sentences occasionally reaching 2-3 sentences but average 1) Payment will can work through PayPal or Venmo. Some other accommodations can be made if necessary
How do I ask the director if I can tweak my lines? by RicePaddyFarmer69 • last post Jul 6th
This is for a martial arts short film that I landed the lead actor role for. I have just finished memorizing my lines, but there are a few spots where I feel a slightly different wordage would flow better and help me sound more natural (ie. not important -> unimportant, "He was killed in battle. I was very young. I did not know him well" -> "He was killed in battle when I was very young... I did not know him well." This is for a small production on an indie short film, but I want to make sure I go about it the right way. Thanks!
[Paid] Light Fantasy Visual Novel 2F/2M/2 Androgynous by pixelsandpins • last post Jul 6th
Forgot a subreddit to cast the net to, so apologies for the quick turnaround. Open to actors of all experience levels. **DEADLINE:** July 11th, at 11:59PM CST Actors will be live directed via Skype, Discord, Google hangouts etc. when recording to make sure we nail that performance together. Recording will take place in the second half of July. **Payment:** $50/half-hour with 1 hour ($100) minimum *Fruit Salad Theory* is a light fantasy visual novel set one evening at a palace ball. As the evening progresses, staff and guests from different backgrounds and worlds find themselves interacting in interesting new ways, even their smallest decision having tiny ripples through the party...and whatever devious thing is happening in the shadows. Generally light with some serious moments. Down-to-earth performance focusing on introspection and emotion. PG-13 with slight profanity. All art is preliminary sketches while art/design is finalized. ​ Audition sides and additional information in this casting call document found [here.](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1o98VhtE5w6xjJw7domy6-1b6ymgZckPbhLZCIh6wKIk/edit?usp=sharing) Mods, tell me if I need to copy/paste the whole doc, instead.
Awful Things Nobody Tells You About Being an Actor, by Soren Bowie by BernieIsNoSocialist • last post Jul 6th
> Dear struggling actors, the market for fame is saturated. You can all go home. Sorry for getting your hopes up like that. The truth is, you have a better chance of being hit by a satellite than by fame. And just so we're all on the same page, fame is exactly the point of all this. > Any ambition to act for the sake of artistic satisfaction was run down and sucked into the wheel wells under the sports car of fame long ago, because fame makes more money and it's just cooler. > Now most of you probably don't believe me, and that's fine. You've heard that the odds of success are slim, but you're different from all those other people, you have been singled out by providence for this. > Parents, teachers and community theater directors have told you your entire life that you are gifted -- that you are born to make emotions with your face under camera and stage lights, a face that was too optimistic or too young to devastate with brutal honesty. > When your dream is to be an actor, you don't have the luxury of simultaneously perusing a fallback dream. That's why you'll never see a struggling actor holding down a full-time job as a marine biologist. Acting is a jealous and needy career that doesn't like the thought of you keeping your options open. You'll need a job that allows you to leave at a moment's notice for auditions, usually for two or three hours at a time. > Or, assuming you are fortunate enough to be cast in anything, you need a job that allows you to miss work for a week at the very least. The logical solution is to work at night at a restaurant or bar. The trouble, however, is that most of these jobs were never intended to be careers. They have high turnover rates and offer little in terms of personal satisfaction. > And that will all seem fine at first -- great, even -- for building that romantic sense of humility you intend to wear once you're famous. Taking orders from customers and folding napkin fans in wine glasses is just part of the struggle that you will remember fondly while masturbating poolside to your own biography. > That is, until your friends outside of the entertainment industry start developing actual skill sets that lead to raises, promotions and the general advancement of their careers. Everyone who entered the work force along with you will gradually move into better jobs because they've built up experience and because that's how nearly every other profession is designed to function. > Meanwhile, there's no guarantee that you will book a role, ever. All the experience you'll be racking up will just be preparing you for a life in the service industry. Sure, you will still be honing your skills as an actor through classes and auditions, but until your acting resume includes more than school plays and student films, it won't help you get a job, because ... > There are three people featured for about four seconds apiece in an innocuous commercial for Listerine. Each one of them is an actor who had to audition for that role. That may not sound like much, but take a minute to consider exactly what that entails: > All three of them, without a doubt, started with dreams of being respected actors. They likely struggled for weeks if not months to find an agent, and paid upwards of $500 to have headshots taken and printed. > Then they drove to an audition in the middle of a workweek and waited in a waiting room for an hour with 20 to 30 other people who looked exactly like them before being wrangled into a small room four or five at a time to say their names and, finally, to swish. They stood there for a few seconds pretending to swish mouthwash around their mouths. > That's it. That's 80 percent of all the auditions you will go to. Now consider the hundreds of people who also auditioned and didn't get that part. All of that energy, time and money amounted to 10 seconds of moving their cheeks around for a casting director who had already seen scores of other eager young actors do the exact same thing. > Those three actors weren't hired for that commercial based on their acting ability or really anything that they could control. They were hired because they had a look that a Listerine ad sales department thought might sell more bottles, so the purpose of all those auditions was only to be sure that everyone actually looked like their headshots and that they were capable of ballooning their cheeks. > But surely that's just a commercial, right? Actors also audition for meaty roles in movies and television, acting must be the deciding factor there. Well actually, no. > Acting requires about as much faith as religious fanaticism. Performers rely on directors and editors like zealots rely on God; both of them are just doing their best and hoping that the higher powers don't make them look like an idiot in the end. Actress Rosalind Russell once said, "Acting is standing up naked and turning around very slowly." > The point being, actors have to play pretend so earnestly that an audience is willing to forget that it's really just someone standing in front of a green screen, reacting to a water weenie. > As an actor, you also have to trust implicitly that writers, directors and editors have your best interest at heart. And generally speaking, they don't. Actors have an arguably deserved reputation for being kind of shitty people. Anyone making a movie, particularly a low-budget or non-union film, will try to interact with the talent as little as possible for fear that they'll want something. > In addition, a director has a thousand other things to worry about than whether or not an actor looks completely ridiculous. The consequence, however, is far more severe for you than anyone else. > You are the one immortalized on camera with a crying face that looks eerily similar to a pooping face, or while wearing nothing but a dress that is subtly but irrefutably see-through under set lights. > Even if you luck into a film, commercial or show that does well and of which you are proud to be a part, the saddest truth of all is still to come ... > Among the miniscule number of actors who actually book jobs, there is an even tinier fraction of people who manage to make a living doing it. First, there is the matter of digging yourself out of a hole of expenses. The costs surrounding a struggling actor can seem almost like a malicious scheme to take money from naive, handsome people. > I've already mentioned that headshots cost hundreds of dollars, but you'll need one for commercials, and one for dramas, and one for vampire movies, and one for sports stories. Ultimately, you will have around five different headshots of which you will need to print hundreds. On top of that, you can expect to do the whole process over again in three years when you no longer look like the person in the picture. > You can also prepare to sink around $60 a week into parking tickets. This will obviously vary from city to city, but in Los Angeles, there isn't a reliable public transportation system to get you everywhere you need to go for auditions. > Driving is the only option, and metered parking is ubiquitous. An audition can take anywhere from 10 minutes to two hours, so you never really know how much time you'll need, and you can't run out in the middle of an audition to feed the meter. So be prepared to collect at least one parking ticket a week. > Lastly, when you do finally get a job that pays you actual money, you will owe around 15 percent of that to a manager and 10 percent of it to an agent, all before taxes. > These are the people responsible for getting you auditions and, ironically, ensuring that you aren't screwed over once you book a job. Add actual taxes to that and your take is less than 50 percent of whatever dollar amount appears in the contract. > So, assuming you are doing a SAG Ultra-Low Budget shoot because you aren't a member of the union yet, you will probably be paid around $100 a day, of which you will actually take home about $40, or roughly the price of a Greyhound ticket back home. From here : https://www.cracked.com/blog/5-awful-things-nobody-tells-you-about-being-actor
How do actors deal with acne? by daisycookies • last post Jul 6th
How can you keep your confidence? Are actors sometimes not hired because they're having a bad skin day? Tomorrow I'll have my first live audition for tv since covid. Normally, all would be fine, but this last week my skin has gone really bad and I'm afraid they'll turn me down because they might think it's what they'll get when they hire me. Should I explain it to them in advance? Or even apologize that I look like this?
French Canadian Song About Wanting to be an Actor (With translation) by FurmidableCat • last post Jul 6th
I wish you could understand this French Canadian song about trying to make it as an actor so I searched the translation online. It’s called Ti-Cul by Les Cowboys Fringants. I think it can be meaningful to many of us. https://youtu.be/73ZHgol796M Little Shit didn't go / To his classes this morning / Because somehow he knows / That they're no use to him / He decided he'd rather hang out / In the student lounge / Rather than be bored to death / Listening to an annoying teacher / He's doing, without ambition / A college degree in Humanities / A little reluctantly / Without putting too much effort / He wanted to be an actor / But his parents told him / That it wasn't a good path / To be happy in life... / So now he's there and wasting time / He goofs off in his studies / For him this is bullshit / A complete and utter bore / The only thing that gets him excited / Is his improv group / Or the joints that he smokes / When he does his radio show / But his mother hopes / That he'll become a lawyer / That he'll make a good salary / Somewhat like his father / But Little Shit's not an idiot / He knows that to be happy / You need to live for your own beliefs / And not for those of your parents / Why look for a meaning / In all their bullshit ? / Little Shit, take your chance / And make your own way in this world / Because in the end, real happiness / Is maybe just in not knowing / How will end / Your little story / And there's his older brother / An insignificant type / A cellphone salesman / Who only thinks about money / Who tells him: "It's a shame / You'll never get a job / Because becoming an actor / Is like chasing dreams" / His life is all mapped out / He never questions himself / And to hear him speak / You'd think he was always right / Except Little Shit doesn't care / He knows that narrow-minded people / Just want to hide their lack of power / By trying to put you down / Why look for a meaning / In all their bullshit ? / Little Shit, take your chance / And make your own way in this world / Because in the end, real happiness / Is maybe just in not knowing / How will end / Your little story / It's a good thing he has his girlfriend / A really nice girl / Who understands him, at least / And knows he has talent / She tells him to hang on / And to keep believing / That maybe he'll be accepted / At a conservatory / And there's always the option / Even if it's just in the meantime / To be an extra / In a soap opera / Because to live out your passion / And not regret it later / Reason stands that you need / To start somewhere / That's why tomorrow / He's going to drop everything / And to hell with the jerks / That don't want to encourage him / Because he knows that real happiness / Is basically just in not knowing / How will end / Your little story / Keeping his spirit free / Finding some balance / As for the rest, he doesn't care / Little Shit can't wait for tomorrow... https://lyricstranslate.com/en/ti-cul-little-shit.html
Do those of you who have managers still submit yourself for jobs? by Pearlet2 • last post Jul 6th
I have been modeling for 5 years, and am now getting into acting. I feel more constrained by my manager than I do empowered. I am not submitting myself for jobs because I cannot book my own jobs. It seems like all actors that I speak to insist that the start of their career consisted of submitting themselves to a lot of different jobs, and my fellow actor friends who are also newer to acting have said that they submit themselves for most everything. My manager is focused on me continuing to model in Los Angeles (just moved), and on getting me strong rep after I am done with my current acting program. She does have contacts at HRI talent, WME, and Abrams, I'm not sure where else, but I am having a hard time trusting her process.