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living in jersey city as an actor? by drusillalynch • last post Mar 19th
Hello! I’m a 23F actor and I’m going to New York this week to apartment hunt but I’ve run into many problems with the search. First of all I don’t make 40x the rent at any of the places lol, also I have a small dog which makes it harder to find places. I was thinking about looking around in Jersey City bc I heard the rent can be cheaper in certain places. any advice on this?
UK actors - How many videos do you put on your spotlight profile ? by bustergaming777 • last post Mar 19th
I’ve spoken to a couple of actor friends and have got mixed opinions from each of them on this as some would suggest only have one showreel to not overwhelm anyone and others have suggest a showreel along with multiple clips/ monologues with specific styles (drama, comedy, villain etc.) So I’m wondering, what do you currently have that’s worked for you in past, maybe it’s secured an agent or casting from it.
Voice acting practice by jreyes4159 • last post Mar 19th
Let me know how I did, I dueted several tiktoks with Chris Greenfield as a past time and potentially as a portfolio. I hate to ask but would appreciate a like and share if you enjoyed it. Looking to maybe work as a voice actor on the side while I pursue a degree.
how do people get auditions for huge shows/TV shows (like Wednesday or stranger things stuff like that) by Cennixxx • last post Mar 19th
Like do these huge companies that produce these films just post auditions on websites or do they just get asked? Do agent's of the actors do the work for them to find auditions? like i know the people that played in wednesday and stranger things had alot of credits to their name before they appeared on the shows, but theres also actors like Felix Kammerer who only had 2 credits to his name before starring in All quiet on the Western front, and that movie is huge now, how do they do it?
Visa question by Embarrassed_Clue_929 • last post Mar 19th
Posting for a friend: this is a very stupid question so I apologise in advance, but is it possible to go to the US on a work visa, work the job you used to apply for the visa, but work on the side as an actor? Ik heaps of people want to make the jump from Aus to the US but the O-1 visa is pretty hard to get. Is it better for Aus actors to just make the jump to the UK or Canada? And if so, what are their visa requirements? Is it legal for me to go on a work visa, work that job then pursue acting on the side and if it picks up, make that transition?
For the peeps wanting to get into BG as a career | The World’s #1 Extra. The most famous actor you’ve never heard of. by Food_Pre-Chewer • last post Mar 19th
Learn to use your natural voice. by controltheweb • last post Mar 19th
*Reposting with most links removed:* We asked pros how many demos they listened to, how many they rejected, and how fast they rejected them. That group told us 95% of demos are rejected in 4 seconds or less due to not attempting natural speech. Pros included owners of agencies and studios, top talent, two Emmy-award winning producers, etc. We found them and got their opinion by producing 78 training events, recording as many as 350 sessions in a single day at a large conference hotel, renting up to 15 rooms. Each recording session included two pros, a producer and engineer (plus several roving admins) in a room set up as a partially-baffled studio space. In 2018, we started adding 1-2 students per event apprenticing with the engineers. Another group of mostly full-time working pros with far less career experience told us they usually listened past the first clip, but identified the same problem. (Apparently the more experience teaches you that if a demo starts poorly, it doesn't get better, the faster you give up when it starts poorly.) We also surveyed over 1,000 event attendees and asked about their previous training experience. We learned a lot about how the industry trains new folks—and very few of them teach natural speech well. Of course, many not-yet-informed voice actors often pushback on *actually* using acting and natural speech skills. They think it's something you are taught that you can forget later, rather than something you utilize throughout your career. This is normal, as learners of many topics get stuck between stages two and three—failing to reach the final stage—when going through the "[stages of learning and competency](https://taskcompetency.com/)". ​ *We began winding down the events pre-pandemic and ended them in 2020.*
Seeking input (youth, basics, education) by Fit-Protection5399 • last post Mar 19th
I run a youth arts coalition at this community center and a local actor/independent filmmaker is going to do a presentation for the group in a few weeks. If it goes well I may ask him to make it a series. I am a music teacher, and my wife also a singer and visual artist. Point is, I want to broaden the scope of this group beyond my/our capabilities of doing so; these kids have next to no knowledge of the art (and nor do I really, other than just being a lover of cinema). So anyway, this gentleman has asked for a list of topics he should cover. Thoughts? It’ll be a 2-3 hr. presentation.
I need ideas!! by idkwhatnametopick5 • last post Mar 19th
Okay so I’m creating this website by scratch and it’s going to be one for beginning and up coming actors. I want to include monologues to get started but don’t know what else to add. Also I’m open to adding monologues that you create just follow the format and pm me: Character name Age Range Genre Background Info “monologue”
What technique seems like it would be best for me based on this list? by Abstract_Corduroy74 • last post Mar 19th
I need a technique. I NEED to BE TRAINED IN A TECHNIQUE. But I don’t know which technique. I NEED technique, but one that can not only help me become a better actor, but one that can address and help me fix my many problems and shortcomings as an actor. What technique(s) will help me based on my list of problems as an actor? •Struggle to really REALLY listen to scene partners •Being too in my head and overthinking everything •Struggle to be able to trust and just let go •Near impossibility being emotionally open and vulnerable •Fear that my imagination isn’t strong or stimulating enough •That I have a blocked instrument and don’t have the proper resources and guidance to help unblock and help me tune my instrument •Fear that I’m not doing it right. I mean technique work, that I’m not trying the right way or not trying enough to know what works and what doesn’t. •Fear of failure and criticism/making mistakes because I’m afraid it means I’m not as good an actor as I should be or I don’t have it together. •Wanting outcomes of a particular scene instead of just letting what happens happen and having faith it will work out. •Lack of faith and trust in myself, the work I’ve done, and my journey ahead. I don’t trust I am where I’m supposed to be right now, I don’t trust that I’ve got what I need right now, and I don’t trust that I’ve done enough work to allow the process and in-the-moment work to play out how I envision it should go. I don’t trust or have faith that I’ll be able to let go and believe that it will be okay. •Feeling like I don’t have time. Time to try, fail, learn, and try again. Time to really delve into the work and take the time to practice technique and work and see what works and how I respond to it. Time to get my foot in the door. ——Because so many other actors (Timothee Chalamet, Sydney Sweeney, Tom Holland, are all doing amazing work and have their shit together at their young ages, and here I am at 22 almost about to graduate college asking stupid questions on a subreddit). •Fear that I can’t really, truly act because I’m so in my head so much and overthink everything about the work and what I should be and what I can’t do and can do and if certain results don’t happen for a scene then I’m a failure and can’t do it right. •Fear that an intellectual/cerebral has no business acting. That I cannot be trained to get out of my intellectual and over-analytical head and do the work with no interference. •Obsession with results of the work (the performance) rather than process, exploring, and doing the work necessary •Anger that I haven’t had the training I feel like I need, nor the resources necessary to get the training I need. •Slowly dwindling love of the process and work itself and instead a growing hunger for the results of the work rather than the work itself. •Not wanting to take the time to find the right place to train, the right teacher to train me, the right classroom to be trained in, etc because I feel like I need to start training NOW •Fear that I don’t have the discipline or the grit to really do the work necessary. •Fear that I’m not enough as an actor, and never will be. That I won’t be able to be the actor I want to be because of all the things I listed above. All of this stuff really frightens me and I need to solve these things through technique. And please don’t say therapy, I’ve already heard that enough. And I’m seeing a therapist, but have yet to really bring this stuff up.
Overthinking actor here in need of advice by Abstract_Corduroy74 • last post Mar 19th
How can I stop overthinking in my acting and my process? How can I trust that the work I’ve done is enough? How can I stop myself from feeling pressure to and putting pressure on myself to nail a scene or performance down? How can I just fucking jump into the unknown? How can I just fucking surrender to the work and be open and live in the fucking moment?
Things actors should know after joining their first agency by Basic_Cucumber3440 • last post Mar 19th
What are some things that actors with their first agency should know like auditions and general knowledge? Thx!
How to get me out of my contract? by Minimum-Bee-5680 • last post Mar 19th
Hello, I’m signed with a good agency here in LA for model & talent 5-6months ago. I have been self submitting on casting networks and actors access. I get to audition/self-tape 3-5 times a week. Only booked one music video in these months being signed with my own submissions. Now, every photographers I meet they say that the agent is not good (there’s a lot of hearsay about my current agent) I feel the same way as well, when I text him he only response to me one word and with mean attitude. He really only handles men based on what I see on his IG. I’m trans and I feel like he doesn’t know what to do with me being the only trans on the roster right now. All the call backs I’ve gotten is all from my submissions. And people that I know in the industry finds it weird that my agent hasn’t sent me somewhere for castings. I have a 2 year exclusive contract with my current agency. I was transferred to my current agent because my old agent (same agency) moved to New York division so I was passed along with this new one 4 months ago. I’m not sure if he’s even submitting me for breakdowns I don’t see. How did you get out of your agency? How would you go about my situation? Thank you!
Can I get some help budgeting actors for a podcast? by Springflowers6969 • last post Mar 19th
So, I’m putting together a podcast. I think I have good rates on pretty much everything apart from actors. The recording studio is very upfront with their pricing, I’ve found an editor and we’ve talked through an a hourly rate, etc. But I can’t for the live of me figure out actors. I’m in NYC so I know we have a good talent pool. It seems like there are Union rates for film and theater, but not so much for VO? When I look it up, I mainly get VO for audio books and I don’t think it’s the same? I’m not looking for anyone super famous. (Obviously!) Just 4 or 5 talented people that I pay fairly. What do you think would be a fair day rate? Is there a standard?
I’m unbelievably fed up with trying to get anywhere with this. by bustergaming777 • last post Mar 18th
31 male actor here from UK. I’ve tried so many different approaches over the last year to maybe get more of a response to anything but I’m getting nothing at all. My agent is basically useless so I’ve applied to new ones and not had one meeting, got new headshots, added new material to showreel, tweaked profiles etc but it just seems like no matter what I do I can not get through, not even called in. I don’t have many credits but if that’s what is holding me back then how the hell do I get past this if no one is willing to even see me. Acting is my passion but right now I’m at a loss.
Anyone here studied computer science and are now working as an actor? by snowpiercer24 • last post Mar 18th
I'll be graduating from college next year and I'm planning to take acting classes as a start. I was wondering if anyone here has done that or something similar. Do you have any tips?
Hi everyone! My name is Ceasar by Puzzleheaded-Swan511 • last post Mar 18th
I always find myself dissecting movies or shows to find the deeper meaning of things. This I know comes from my love of literature. Not so much the writing part but how certain literary devices shape scenes that are used to create a complex web of a characters persona. Today I watched SCREAM VI with Jenna Ortega playing one of the lead characters, she is 20yo and 5’1. I am 19yo and 5’5(male). I don’t know… I guess watching her act in Wednesday and now this (along with growing up watching her on Disney), I’ve been feeling like I might like acting? I’ve always like film, especially people’s reactions to film and their interpretations of it. I’m actually starting a YouTube channel right now and looking at it from a distance I guess I like performing for people too. I love the editing process and planning everything in my head. Again though, as a libra I like the attention and eyes on me. Front and center. I am very much all over the place… I’m in college for engineering (though I’m realizing I hate math), and at the same time I’m planning on taking this YouTube thing very very far… I am lost to say the least. Either I have too many aspirations or the film industry is where I want to be. Idk but the old me would say I’m into STEM or something. When I think about it.. these actors I look up to took yearsssss to get to where they are, so why would I expect any less? I guess that’s doubt talking but it’s true. I don’t know if it would be right for me. I know less of where to start. And I’m scared to leave whatever path I’m on right now if it might lead to a dead end. How did you guys start? Is it too late for me? Am I too short? (Lmao)
Is Actors Access Down? by Blueeyesindisguise • last post Mar 18th
I can't load Actors Access on any device. Is it out?
WGA Writers Strike 2023 - What Will Happen for Actors? by Blueeyesindisguise • last post Mar 18th
My friend who works in unscripted said they unexpectedly stopped production because the writers will strike. He also said that he knows other productions that plan or have stopped. How long do you think this will last? How do you feel about it?