Not the paycheck, not the review, not the reel. An actor’s purpose is to get better, and to choose every piece of work by whether it will. Three words I’ve used for twenty years, and the night a French accent caught me short.
How to set acting goals that can’t fail you: begin with ten years, refuse any goal you don’t control, work backwards to today, and start smaller than you want to. With a twelve month plan built on skills instead of bookings.
Civilians often ask us “professional actors”, How To Memorize Lines. To many people memorization can appear to be some sort of magic trick. Today I’m going to unveil the actor’s secret to memorizing effectively so you don’t forget when it matters most. Why is it so Important to Memorize my Lines? Memorization for an actor …
Andy Cooper booked his 500th voice over job a few years after being too nervous to say he wanted to act. In his own words: the resources worth trusting, the home studio he built for under a thousand dollars, how he finds work, and why voice over is acting first.
What an actor headshot has to do, the two Phoenix photographers we send actors to today, what a session tends to cost, and the headshot I printed at home with beer bottles in the background. From a casting director in Phoenix.
The four kinds of audition and where each one actually lives, what to do whether you have an agent or not, whether you still have to move to L.A. or New York, and the part nobody wants to hear.
You don’t need a demo reel to get started. You need one to be considered for the best job there is, the direct booking. What a reel is, why it matters, and how to make one in three steps, even with no footage.
Train on camera, get a headshot that looks like you, get on the sites casting directors use, audition for everything. What a commercial pays, and how a theater actress who thought she lacked the look booked national spots from Arizona.
Strip the spaceships and the plot twists off any story and what’s left is people and how they treat each other. Why ‘Luke, I am your father’ is the line everyone remembers, and what that means for the way you prepare a role.
You will work on projects you don’t believe in, with people who didn’t know what they were doing. Stay quiet about it, forever. Why it’s bad business in a small industry, why it insults the people who loved the thing, and what to say instead.
Real people think about fifty thousand thoughts a day, and characters written to be real should too. How to build a thought life for a role, why it only works once the lines are cold, and what it does to your face when the camera is on.
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