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I'm Convinced These Auditions Are Fake by Blueeyesindisguise • last post Apr 14th
It was recently announced that Glenn Powell will lead the new Twister film. I know a few people who auditioned for the role and spent a lot of time and money on their self-tapes. I know how Hollywood works and there is no way this casting wasn't already planned for a while with how studios package clients and I doubt casting even watched the auditions for this role. They completely wasted the time of these actors and gave them false hope. I know a few other roles like this and it convinces me that a lot of these castings are fake. There is no way casting can watch all these tapes or do. I know they don't because I've had friends work for offices... I'm just so disillusioned by the business and how it really works.
Is Voice Acting for me? by kduffs • last post Apr 14th
Hey everyone, I used to work at a call center job where just about everyone would come up to me and tell me I should be a voice actor. I didn't really think much of it - just sort of took the compliment and moved on - but now that I'm in college and dirt poor, I feel like I should at least try to put my talent to good use. As mentioned before, my call center job involved me working for hours on end with thousands of customers in tough financial situations with nothing but my voice over the phone to help show them the way forward. Routinely, I was one of the best at the company I worked for, thanks in no small part to my voice. How can I make the most of this talent I have? I have a good computer, a quiet room in my apartment all to myself, and I know I'll obviously have to purchase a solid microphone. Beyond that, I don't exactly know where to go. I don't have lots of experience with audio editing, which I feel might be my Achilles heel here. What software is good for beginners? What exactly goes into editing something like an audiobook? Would you recommend I start doing auidobooks for free? What is the going rate for beginners who do start charging? I definitely have other questions but I can't exactly think of all of them as I type this. Is this something I can really do part-time? I'm in college and am on an airline pilot career path that has nothing to do with voice acting (well except maybe for telling passengers to look out their window at the Grand Canyon), but that does currently take up a good chunk of my time. Thanks for all your help!
Sag Eligible? by Fit-Factor988 • last post Apr 14th
If you work on a project that’s “SAG American Film Institute Short-Form Film Agreement” does that make the actor SAG Eligible after?
How to keep my voice from being stolen by AI? by Celeste_signals • last post Apr 14th
Hello! Im a new(ish) voice actress and have just finished renovating my studio, new equipment will be here in about a week or two, depends on when I place the order. Im very worried about my voice being sampled and used in AI. How do I deter people from stealing my voice for their AI’s? Can I put something at the end of my demo or on my website? What legal ways can I protect my voice and my work? Thank you!
Open Calls - Trauma Sharing by Most_Amphibian6967 • last post Apr 14th
I noticed a lot of open calls that don't have sides and just require the actor to speak about their past experiences, sometimes going as far as asking the actor to recount trauma. I fail to see how asking these questions helps casting offices choose their actor? I get that they want non-actors to feel they can approach the open call, but it promotes a misguided idea of what acting is......
Just wanted to thank you guys!! by Hans_Christopher • last post Apr 14th
3 years ago at the beginning of the pandemic I was freaking out like most of us about how I was going to live and came on here to get some advice and ask about coaching. The only thing I knew at the time was what I learned in my 11 years of struggling to be an actor, so that’s what taught. Everything I’d learned. I did it every week for almost 2 months for free with a number of actors from here and had no idea it would eventually lead to me starting a business, [The Working Actor](https://www.theworkingactor.xyz). So just wanted to say thanks [r/acting](https://www.reddit.com/r/acting/) and all the actors I've been coaching over the last few years that played a huge part in coming up with this. It took far longer than I thought to release it (in part because these past few years have been pretty amazing acting wise) but I'm launching the site today! Feel free to check it out and Let me know if you have any questions and if anyone is interested in coaching and you came from this post DM me for a discounted price on privates. Thanks again and good luck on your acting journey! Hans Also feel free to ask me anything below! I'll do my best to answer any questions you might have! here's the site! =) [www.theworkingactor.xyz](https://www.theworkingactor.xyz/) ​ https://preview.redd.it/2ipsi480pxta1.png?width=1280&format=png&auto=webp&v=enabled&s=45dc65f1d8026d033adcf87c5e74426d6e950cb3
Am I (26F) Just Not Built To Be An Actress? by ageminiwriter • last post Apr 14th
Hi all (new Reddit-er here) Let me start this post by saying that I am incredibly hesitant to share this existential crisis with a community of strangers who do not know me personally, but I am too scared to talk in-depth about this with anyone I know, so here I am! Ever since I was a child, I had dreams of being an actress. I thought acting was the coolest thing in the world, and the most fun. I was CONVINCED that was my life goal. I loved playing make believe, building worlds with my imagination, etc. I continued this dream through middle school and acted in plays, wrote video skits with my friends, and began writing songs, stories, poems... anything where I could storytell. Improv was especially my favorite thing to do in middle school drama class. A shift in my personality happened when I went to high school... anxiety became dehabiliting for me. I was anxious as a child, but hitting puberty really set something off within me. I also switched from private school to public school, and became way more quiet and reserved; in middle school, my school was small and I was openly a jokester and performer. My anxiety and the massive size of my high school made me more fearful to behave in such a way. As high school went on, I still kept my dream of being an actress, but kept it a secret; I was on a sports team, and hung out with athletes only. I had taken theater by freshmen year, but the theater kids were not very accepting of me for whatever reason, and I gravitated more towards my friends on my sports team. However, being around the sports kids 24/7, I was afraid to make any mention of acting desires. I was afraid to mention it to anybody because I was the only one, as far as I knew, who found acting/theater/film interesting. Looking back, I regret not being myself around my friends, but being an immature teenager, I felt more at peace "fitting in" than expressing myself. However, I secretly still wrote many stories and song wrote consistently. My battle with anxiety really got bad my senior year. My life pretty much revolved around doing the safe thing and being as comfortable as I could. I started therapy but I didn't really have any success managing the debilitating physical symptoms of anxiety. My dream was to go to New York and attend NYU while also taking improv classes at comedy clubs in New York. However... I didn't get any scholarships to New York, so I couldn't afford to do any of that without an incredible amount of student loans, and also, the idea of moving to New York without anyone I knew made my anxiety even worse. This led to me deciding to attend college in my hometown, playing for the soccer team there to pay for my school. I fell into the same self-conforming patterns in college, probably even more extreme than I did in high school. My anxiety got worse as well, to the point where I was missing school and physically ill most of the time. The entire time, I wished I had gone to New York and could be an actress. But my anxiety was so bad, I told myself that I wasn't "built for it". In my mind, there was no way I could do all the things I would need to do in order to live my dreams, because I was too anxious of a person and unable to get it under control. This was devastating, but I blocked out that feeling by telling myself I would do what most every girl from my hometown did: become a wife and a mom (no shade, that was just my thought process at the time). I was also around a lot of religious people and that was what everyone around me was doing, that it felt like it was what I SHOULD do. So, I graduated college. Got a full-time job. Did the normal thing. The entire time having so much resentment, guilt, and self-hatred towards myself because I had this huge dream, always, and wasn't good enough for it. I continued to write stories, even writing two books (still unpublished), and had this little voice in my head that I could still be an actress, but I fought that idea. Fast forward to age 24. The pandemic hits and I get laid off. I get out of a relationship around the same time. With truly nothing to lose, and nothing to look forward too, I had a wake-up call moment. I decided to take improv classes online through a very reputable improv institution in New York... and I thrived. I met so many people like me. For the first time in my life, I wasn't embarrassed to talk to people about my dreams, and my interests... talking about film, poetry, writing, comedy and more with a group of like-minded people truly saved me at times. This was the happiest period of my life thus far. I truly felt like my dream of being an actress was possible. I decided that I wanted to do the thing...but, I had no money. I had no one who needed a roommate in New York or Los Angeles. I was in student debt and credit card debt from being unemployed with no income. I didn't know what to do. So, I took the first job I could get where I was, because I needed money in order to survive. It's been two years, and I'm still stuck in the same place. I couldn't afford to keep taking improv classes and travel to see my improv friends. I am stuck working the same 9-5 job and hating it. I've gotten so depressed and told myself that my dreams are clearly not meant to be. I make "OK" money, enough to be comfortable, but I still have debt. The idea of moving to LA with no savings makes me incredibly anxious and feels like I would be setting myself up for failure. The few people I've told my dream to have told me that "everyone has big dreams as a kid but they aren't realistic" or "maybe it's time for a new dream" and I'm convincing myself it's true. But the idea of grieving that dream... accepting that I will never be an actress... makes me feel so sad that I can't begin to describe. It truly is devastating. I think about it constantly, and fear resenting myself forever if I don't at least try... and also fear feeling like a failure if I do try, and it doesn't happen. This is where I'm confused. Do I need to accept that I'm just a phony? If I was really meant to be an actress, wouldn't I have dropped everything, moved to NYC or LA with no money, and made it happen? The fact that I have chosen to be comfortable instead of risk it all tells me that I don't have what it takes, right? Maybe I'm not meant for it. Also... I'm 26. Seems pretty late to start a new career in the entertainment industry. I feel like I have two choices: either decide that my dream is unrealistic, not meant for me, and find a way to accept being where I am now and a different dream, OR I need to f\*cking make the move to LA and NYC and go for it, because if I don't, I will live with resentment my whole life. So Reddit, I want to know... what do I do?
Acting on "jury duty" by Zakaree • last post Apr 14th
First, Im not an actor..my day job is director/cinematographer. But i thought id check out this room to bring this up.. I just discovered the fake reality show "jury duty" and i find the acting incredible.. im sure some parts are scripted, especially the scenes where the non actor dude isnt in the scene.. but i dunno... it feels real and the characters they came up with are funny. I love james marsdens character he plays (which is suppose to be himself, but its clearly a character that he probably developed off some other actors he knows) Anyways, Just wanted to write a blog because the blue dream just kicked in hard Z
What should my next steps be? by Tunaavocado17 • last post Apr 14th
Hi everyone! I’m an aspiring actor and this sub has really been helping me navigate so if anyone has any advice I’d love to hear it. I’m a young female (based in nyc, over 18 with a 15-25 age range.) I’ve been acting theatrically since I was maybe 5 but only started seriously pursuing screen acting in 2021. Considering that I started after covid started, I know the industry has been a bit different pre and post covid, but I wanted to share my progress and see if anyone has any ideas how I can perhaps further my progress. In my two years, I have been auditioning for many roles via actors access/casting networks (and even gotten callbacks for a couple cool things), have taken quite a few acting classes, and have submitted to agents. Until this past November, I had not gotten a speaking role in anything, but since November I’ve had 6 leads and 1 supporting in student films (yay!!!). Now that I am starting to have enough to build a reel and my craft is definitely improving, I’m wondering what else I can do at this point that I have control in and would possibly progress me into non-student film roles, and what would make me seem like a considerable client to an agent/manager. Managers and agents have shown interest in me, but when we spoke I hadn’t had a single speaking role so I didn’t really have enough experience at that point. Any ideas? (Sidenote: I’m a british citizen as well so I’m able to work in the uk)
AA, Casting Frontier, and Casting NW Free Agent Profiles by slingit5000 • last post Apr 14th
I saw on a different thread that many agents have agent only profiles and that when some actors let their personal profiles expire because they already had excellent pics and reels set up, it was still fine because their agents just submitted them through their agent profile. Is that possible only with Casting Networks or does that also hold true for Actors Access and Casting Frontier?
I work in the Southeast market. Is it time to join SAG-AFTRA? by sauronthegr8 • last post Apr 14th
I've been in Atlanta for over ten years now, and I'm from Georgia originally. I've been in three SAG productions as a principal and was an extra in a SAG industrial for which production provided a Taft Hartley. I checked the website recently and I'm now eligible to join SAG-AFTRA. Georgia is a "Right to Work" state and you can do as many SAG projects as you want without having to join, since workers here can't be compelled to join a Union. But at this point I can't think of any reason why I *shouldn't* join. I've always had career ambitions for acting, having majored in it in college. I'm in my mid-30s now and I'd like to go ahead and start working on and putting money toward benefits and a pension plan for retirement. I understand that in order to access those benefits you have to log so many hours in a year on set. I joined a new agency last year and the overwhelming majority of the auditions I've received have been for SAG productions. So far I've only booked one, but it was a recurring so I got a good amount of hours. We're often told in the Southeast to put off Union membership as long as possible in order to be able to audition for non-Union commercials. In the ten years I've been here I've booked four, none of them paid much (the biggest one was $2000, but it's been as low as $500), and there are no residuals. It hardly seems worth it, and I can't imagine my agency is thrilled with one time payments of $50-$200 checks. I don't think I'd be cutting out much if I stopped doing them altogether. I already stopped doing student films and there isn't much of an indie scene in Atlanta. Nor am I really interested in non-Union tv, which is usually low paid true crime shows. Been there, done that. On the other hand, commercials have made up the lion's share of my auditions this spring since theatrical stuff has been down, due to the impending writers strike. But film and tv are starting to cast again, and I can only assume my numbers will be back up in the fall once negotiations are done. Which has me again leaning more towards joining. Is there something I'm missing? It'd be fewer opportunities, technically, but it'd also be BETTER opportunities. I currently average 1-3 auditions a week, but I've done that many in a month with my old agent, so it's something I could handle. Plus eventually I'd like to seek out representation in other markets, and I know already being a Union member can help in that endeavor. I'm a character actor and I'm beginning to find out my casting skews toward middle age, so my best years are ahead of me as I age into that. Joining SAG seems like the path beyond costars to eventually playing guest stars and series regulars in my 40s as I expand to other markets. If you've worked mainly in the Southeast and joined SAG-AFTRA, has it been worth it? Has it led to better opportunities? Have you worked enough to reap the benefits?
Your weekly /r/VoiceActing roundup for the week of April 07 - April 13 by subredditsummarybot • last post Apr 14th
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CALLING SAILOR MOONIES! SAILOR V COMIC DUB! by StarrySweet • last post Apr 14th
Hey everyone! I LOVE Sailor Venus! She has been my favorite straight from the beginning! And I am SOO sad that Codename: Sailor V, never got an anime. So I am starting work, on a comic dub, and I need voice actors! And all kind of crap! If you are interested, let me know! Or share the link around! https://discord.gg/TCScwujk
Advice on Networking for Introverts! by Ashley Renee Smith • last post Apr 13th
All of our fantastic performers that are coming out to our in-person meetup here in LA tonight, be sure to check out today's great blog by Stage 32's founder and CEO, Richard "RB" Botto, sharing great advice on networking for introverts!
Headshot-Age Range-Character Type Feedback by AutoModerator • last post Apr 13th
Use this thread to post your headshots for feedback, get info on your age range/type, find good headshot photographers, ask any questions you may have about headshots. If you are posting a DIY headshot for feedback, and not just a snapshot in order to get feedback on your age range/type/etc, it is advised that you do at least some basic research on what actor headshots look like--composition, framing, lighting. You will find a Google Image search for "actor headshots" to be very helpful for this. Non-professional shots are fine for age/typecasting; please keep in mind that one picture is a difficult way to go about this. Video of you moving and speaking would be ideal, but understandably more difficult to post. ​ For what it's worth, the branding workshop at SAG-AFTRA recommends a five-year age range. That's inclusive, so for example 19-23, 25-29, 34-38, etc.
Actress had bag stolen on shoot by TeachMeNotToBeTaught • last post Apr 13th
Hello, I have recently made a short film and on the final shoot day our actress had a bag stolen from a tent we were using to store belongings. She is now attempting to claim the costs from the company. I am of the mind that it is her bag, and thus her responsibility, therefore there is no liability on the part of the company. However, this was a small budget, amateur film, and no contract was signed. What is the best step forward? Any help massively appreciated.
Any Actors In Austin? by Apprehensive-Click29 • last post Apr 13th
Hey All, I'm a film director in Austin woeking on a couple documentaries and scripts at the moment. Please DM me or comment if you'd like soke extra work. All The Best, Kyle
I need help learning a Chinese script by Total_Storm5891 • last post Apr 13th
Hi Reddit, so I'm not even really an actor, but my boss recommended me for a commercial shoot for a Chinese company and they agreed. My issue is that I only speak basic Chinese, so I do not understand most of the script. I now have a roughly 2 page script that I barely understand and have to memorize until Monday. Are there any tips on how to tackle the memorization?
new actor. by FrietInMijnGat • last post Apr 13th
Hi i wanna become a new actor. But i love in Belgium. Someone know free acting lessons online? Ore have any tips. Let it know Thx.
Confused/ Discouraged. Am I overreacting? Is this normal? by lets-snuggle • last post Apr 13th
Hi everyone! So I’m on Backstage.com and Actors Access (I haven’t uploaded a demo reel or really applied to anything yet on AA because of money) but I use Backstage A LOT. I got 2 self-tape auditions this weekend for low budget feature films which I’m super excited about! However, my only professional acting experience is being BG in a Hulu show that I found through Roman Candle Casting on Backstage. It was a great experience. But that was in early March and I haven’t booked any other BG work since. I’ve applied a lot through Grant Wilfrey, both through the website and directly emailing the projects with the exact format it says to. I’m just confused I guess as to why it’s seeming to be so hard to get simple BG work again. I’m nervous I may have made a bad impression but I can’t think of how or why I would’ve. I wasn’t rude to anyone, didn’t complain and I was on time. I understand getting auditions for speaking roles and not getting booked. That’s mostly based on talent, but I was really looking forward to more BG work at least. Notes for context: I am 22F, petite. I can play 16-24 years old. Im NYC/NJ/PA based. Non-Union I have professional headshots and two monologues but no demo reel. Any advice about what sites to be on/not to be on (Casting Workbook, Casting Networks, Backstage, etc) or anyone’s experiences with Grant Wilfrey or BG or anything really would be so appreciated. Note on AA: I’m planning to utilize it to its full ability once I’ve been in more student films/ short films and have a solid demo reel. Thank u so much!