You may have heard the axiom, “If you can imagine yourself doing anything other than acting, do it.” Often, it is not offered in the attempt to discourage you, rather to ask you to consider if you have the perseverance to weather the storms this career will throw at you.
Figuring out how you fit into the industry – and what that means for your hopes and dreams. Your type encompasses a lot of things over which you have no control. Your height, for example. They didn’t even audition people shorter than six feet for Asgardians when casting for the Thor movies. There are a …
It is more important to decide upon a moment before and a moment after than it is to decide how to say a line. How you say the line is determined by all of the things going on with the character – so you have to know those things.
To simply speak the lines requires a lot of work in imagining the world where the scene happens.
Putting yourself on tape has become an essential job skill for the modern actor. It can be a near-daily event. Here are some tips for a successful self-tape.
Unfortunately, there is no magic pill or shortcut to finding a monologue; it’s about as personal as underwear.
The question every new actor asks. The question every new actor asks too early. The short answer is, “It depends.”
For monologues, the trick is just to start – don’t worry about perfect, or right, or better. All of that is subjective. Start where you are, then it gets easier and you get better.
Help for learning where to begin finding and preparing for an audition that requires a monologue (or two).
Imagine you have 40 – or even 100 new people to meet in a single day – and any one of them solves your big problem. This is the task for casting.
