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Reddit · 29 Mar 2023
I’ll go first I actually had Laurie Metcalf (Rosainne , Somewhere in queens , Toy Story series- Andy’s Mom VO) come up to me multiple times & overheard a conversation with me & my agent me getting booked for a job & she goes “sounds like you just booked a job” then Introduces me to Ray Romano on the set of somewhere go…
Reddit · 29 Mar 2023
A friendly reminder to our new-ish friends (and older lurkers who suddenly decide to become active) here in the r/VA sub... 99.999% of the time, it's because you don't have the requisite karma, as stated in the rules. And you get this result because 99.99998% of the time, you either *didn't bother to read the sub rules…
Reddit · 29 Mar 2023
A voice actor (US and male iirc) had a sample on his website that was raw and unedited, and said something like "this is what my studio sounds like, I record with X microphone and Y audio interface. It's unedited and you can download it, and has 30 seconds of room tone at the end". I thought I'd saved the post but sadl…
Reddit · 29 Mar 2023
There’s an agency interested in representing me in Mumbai and I’m trying to figure out what the industry is like there (not scam - through my manager). I’m surprised that the agent seems to think there’s work for me but I know nothing about the market there. I speak English only, I’m a trained working actor out in LA.…
Reddit · 29 Mar 2023
My name is Jawad Asaria, and I’m a filmmaker. I made my first feature film last year in London ([https://www.imdb.me/jawad/](https://www.imdb.me/jawad/)) and am casting for my second feature film. I am looking for an 18-year-old Caucasian male, a 40-year-old Caucasian male, a Caucasian female in her mid-60s and a Cauca…
Reddit · 29 Mar 2023
I graduated few years ago, as a new actor, I did a three student films as an extra, one of them was featured dancer extra role, but recent year I got casted as supporting role in two feature films, im wondering should I take those extra role credits for student films out? Or at least tBecause I don’t want be seen as an…
Reddit · 29 Mar 2023
Music producer Max Martin will often tell a singer to change their pronunciation by putting emphasis on a different syllable of any word, because that pronunciation will sound more "catchy". I'm sure most of you have played a video game where, for some reason, a particular line uttered by an in-game character sticks wi…
Reddit · 29 Mar 2023
Hey I’m thinking I might make an Instagram where I upload videos of me acting (monologues) to try to have a catalog for people who are looking to hire actors to look at so they can see how good I am you know? uhh im so tired lol sorry if i didnt explain this well
Reddit · 29 Mar 2023
Shamelessly stolen from /r/Screenwriting. Lets play a hypothetical scenario: you win $200,000 in the lottery. Don't have any outstanding debt. You can finally quit your job (For now anyways). You decide to put that $200,000 towards "breaking in" to the industry. How do you spend it? Do you pay for 12 months of rent i…
Reddit · 29 Mar 2023
Shooting a short film next month, gonna be around 14 pages with a lot of dialogue. How do you feel about dialogue heavy scripts and what are things for you that would make shooting go smoothly for things scenes with a lotta talking
Reddit · 29 Mar 2023
We have an amazing line up of talent at the upcoming Iowa Motion Picture Awards May 6, 2023 at the beautiful Boman Fine Arts Center in Forest City, IA! The amazing and inspiring Ricky Bartlett will be our emcee this year. Ricky has just completed filming "Intent Unknown" with Eric Roberts. We are also blessed to have t…
Reddit · 29 Mar 2023
And sometimes... still no suspicions.
Reddit · 29 Mar 2023
As someone who is self-submitting in the southeast, I'm currently on one but wonder if the other is worth the additional cost.
Stage 32 · 28 Mar 2023
It can be incredibly handy to have certain clothing items for self-tapes. Keeping a small portion of your closet devoted to clothes for auditioning that are kept clean and pressed can save time and panic later. Here are just a few to consider..Basic Commercial:Before getting into character types, it’s important to have…
Stage 32 · 28 Mar 2023
Sometimes actors can say some pretty crazy things to fellow actors. You Won’t Believe What These 2 Actors Actually Said – Absolutely Shocking https://youtu.be/4BHC3AvR7dQIf you ever experienced an actor saying something weird to you, share it with others so we can all learn from each otherl
Reddit · 28 Mar 2023
So self tapes have been around for a while now. I shot my first selfie maybe a bit over a decade ago, and it was something you did when you couldn't attend an in-person audition for whatever reason. Obviously via covid it's largely replaced in person auditioning completely. I'm wondering, for those actors that have sho…
Reddit · 28 Mar 2023
Just a general question I had since some actors are from Canada/Europe etc in the United States? Do British agencies represent Americans?
Reddit · 28 Mar 2023
For context, I’m an acting student at the Lee Strasberg Institute and am nearing the end of the first year of my two year program here, and it’s been difficult for me and a lot of my peers to understand how sense memory as a technique can apply to scene work or actually working on getting it to work. A lot of us also d…
Reddit · 28 Mar 2023
I’ve been an actor since 2014, so over 9 years now but things didn’t really start to pick up till 2020 funny enough. I’m non union and have had a lot of “career changing almosts” but my biggest fear is I’ll never book union work. It’s incredibly depressing to see my acting friends who have less than 3 years exp, become…
Reddit · 28 Mar 2023
I’m talking Soon as I get the email I’m on my way to your crib immediately this acting shit is probably the most competitive hobby ever
Reddit · 28 Mar 2023
I have never acted professionally, only in community theater and school productions, but it always made me so happy to go up on stage and lose myself to the character. The last time I was on stage was 10 years ago, but it was a very positive experience. High school was when my anxiety and depression kicked in full forc…
Reddit · 28 Mar 2023
So I mainly work on screen and I’m registered in the UK with equity and all profiles like spotlight in my stage name but there is an actor in the US who mainly works on musicals/singing with the same name as me. Will this be a problem ?
Reddit · 28 Mar 2023
Considering the slump in acting jobs at the moment and the oncoming recession we're heading into (or are currently in), where do you see the industry for actors such as yourselves being in five years time? Back to normal? Better than pre-pandemic? I know there are a thousand factors to this but just wondering what peop…
Reddit · 28 Mar 2023
Hope this doesn't sound like a dumb question. I mean I was curious if it is still possible without a formal degree other than high school.
Reddit · 28 Mar 2023
I have a theatre background and while I've gotten a good handful of roles in film, a TV credit and a national commercial under my belt, I'm realizing how much of my theatre days I haven't left behind. I have a naturally loud voice (partly because of my theatre training) which have been deemed too big for the camera so…
Reddit · 28 Mar 2023
I've been thinking more about the networking side of things lately and I'm wondering; is it absolutely vital? Or is it just helpful and not a necessity in order to make a modest/good living. Thanks for any insight.
Reddit · 28 Mar 2023
Hello. I’m a senior in high school, and I just got into NYU’s acting program for the fall of 2023. I’m going to be completely honest, I didn’t expect to get in. The acceptance rate this year was like 8% just for academics. I applied on a dream, and I was prepared to be rejected. When I got accepted, I freaked out then…
Reddit · 28 Mar 2023
Casting director Erica S Bream tweets: > Actors, in case you need someone to say it: > >Yes, it's far quieter than normal right now. No, it's not just you. And yes, it's been this way for a few months now. > >Take a breath. Don't make any rash decisions re: reps/materials. And trust that it will pick up again at some p…
Reddit · 28 Mar 2023
Hey actors of Australia! I have been offered a part scholarship to do a 9 week course with The Actor’s Pulse in Sydney (under $900). They teach the Meisner Technique and screen acting techniques. Would anyone recommend them as an acting school? Just wary of investing money into short term courses and making sure it’s a…
Reddit · 28 Mar 2023
I'm with a pretty small agency, where it's feasible for one agent to keep every actor in mind - their profile, preferences, quirks, etc. How do agencies with 100s of actors do it? Do they split actors between a handful of agents, so that each agent represents a manageable number of actors? Do the top actors in the agen…
Reddit · 27 Mar 2023
I've taken a couple of online empathy tests and quizzes over the past couple of months, and I've received low scores...lower than what I'd like on most of them. I'm not a sociopath or a psychopath, just to clear that up right now. But I'm seriously afraid that I have lower empathy than necessary to be as good of an act…
Reddit · 27 Mar 2023
Dear actors and actress of reddit. What were some of your first roles?
Reddit · 27 Mar 2023
hello! i was wondering if any chicago actors know anything abt stavin’s talent? if you’ve heard/experienced anything good or bad with them, pls lmk! thank u
Reddit · 27 Mar 2023
Anyone else feel like there’s changes to the casting process that we haven’t really caught onto yet? Wanted to create a thread of things we’ve been “told” function a certain way (and maybe they did pre-pandemic) but experience is telling us otherwise. Here’s what I’ll start the list off with- - callbacks and producers…
Reddit · 27 Mar 2023
We try to attend as many sag screenings as we can because we have learned that the actor panels after the screening are some of the most insightful we have ever seen. The actors on stage know that they are talking to an audience of actors, so the things they have to say are often very tailored to that audience and aren…
Reddit · 27 Mar 2023
To quote from her book: "If you are affected in your daily life, calculatingly self-aware in your relations with others, you will undoubtedly be a bad actor, because your attention is narcissistic. If you have acquired these affectations in your teens and have not shaken them by the time you are twenty, you are in trou…
Reddit · 27 Mar 2023
I’m from the rough bad part of Philadelphia anything could happen at any given moment I’ve been in 4 movies & tv shows one of the shows had my name in the title you google my name it’s the first thing that pops up What you think would be the criteria for me to have Actor associated next to my name? Or would it just be…
Reddit · 27 Mar 2023
I read an article about how film/theatre were more prestigious than TV (or any other combination they could think of), and I hated the way of thinking. How can you compare them when at the core, essentially, they are all the same thing (acting)? That's why this new golden age of TV and TV now being considered just as p…
Reddit · 27 Mar 2023
(Sorry if this is the wrong flair, I wasn't sure which I should use.) Hey there, folks! I'm a high school junior amateur working on my demo reel right now. I've done theatre for all of high school, and it's my dream to do voice work as a career. Problem. I'm recording some work (context: I know someone who works at USC…
Reddit · 27 Mar 2023
I've been taking an on-camera class for Film & TV for the last year and my teacher has emphasized that scene study should not be the focus, but rather creating character first. Character is the #1 thing that as actors, we need to focus on creating. It's the personality of the character and what they're dealing with on…
Reddit · 27 Mar 2023
not the show you most want to appear on, but the show that if you know you make it through their casting process, it says something about you as an actor?
Reddit · 27 Mar 2023
As an actor who is currently finalizing their materials to make sure they stand out professional and show great acting capabilities, it pisses me off how filmmakers fail to communicate with the cast and crew on how on the cast and crew on how their project is coming along and update it. I’m going to share an experience…
Reddit · 27 Mar 2023
What does stretching yourself as an actor mean? I want to stretch myself as an actor, artist, and human being, but I’m plagued with self-doubt. I’m wrestling with the fear of it being too scary, too hard, that I’m not capable of stretching as far as I’d like to. Any advice for not being affected by this doubt/fear AND…
Reddit · 26 Mar 2023
My husband and I want to become actors. Well actor and actress. We are majoring in criminal Justice. What do we need to do to be able to get to the right school for acting here in Texas. Don’t know the first thing to do. Any suggestions would help us out a lot. Have no idea what to do I feel so lost.
Reddit · 26 Mar 2023
I know Los Angeles, but any specifics?
Reddit · 26 Mar 2023
It's about my previous post that was deleted - I shouldn't have added my voice sample (sorry about that). I didn't do it intentionally. For a brief moment in 2015 I was considered by Capcom for a motion/performace capture role of Leon in RE 2 Remake. From what I now know, I lost the part early on. But here's the mistak…
Reddit · 26 Mar 2023
I have such an idea, and I'm ready to do everything else: video editing, posting, sounds, preview picture etc. The only thing you should do is voicing sone interesting posts/answers. What do you think?
Reddit · 26 Mar 2023
Things that you feel help connect you to your craft even if you’re not actively auditioning or help your overall mentality in this crazy industry.
Reddit · 26 Mar 2023
So I want to hire person to do the voice for youtube video. Video is about movie analysis. It's around 1000 word. I can pay 10 USD/Hour and as I researched it's around 2-3 hour work to do 1000 word speech voice over. If anyone interested please contact me.
Reddit · 26 Mar 2023
Hiya, I was wondering what rehearsals look like for understudies in smaller productions. Do they use people from the ensemble, and then redistribute any lines from that actor's characters amongst the rest of the ensemble? Or do they have someone just hanging out backstage/on speed dial to cover the role? With smaller p…
