RUTHLESS ADVICE TO TRANSFORM YOUR CAREER
#1
No one is coming to save you
Especially your agent
Stop searching for others to give you the right answers by asking shitty questions
If you keep asking everyone: “What should I do?”
You’ll get shallow answers
Instead
Ask two questions deeply
“Who am I?”
And
“What do I truly want?”
And listen gently to what comes.
Then find the people who’ll guide you in THAT direction
Remember
No HOW will work sustainably
If the WHY is not clear
#2
Remember the main outcome:
Free flowing self expression
NOT
Pushed, forceful results.
You win as an actor when you have a sustainable system
Which allows you to play freely on cue
So build that with people your body likes hanging out with
#3
Make your personal life bigger than acting could ever be
Then you’ll be a human who’s full of life.
Casting directors want humans in front of the lens
Not actors who are desperate to get results
Therefore
Living your life fully is win win for everyone
#4
Make “giving up” a part of your acting cycle
Improve your skills
Give your work
Then REST
I know so many actors who threw in the towel permanently
Because they didn’t give themselves permission to give up in healthy ways
Just for a day, or week, or month, or even a year
Your cup for acting will be influenced by how full your cup is in other areas of your life
#5
Actors love to show emotions
Humans generally do everything they can to hide their emotions
If you’re a screen actor
Your job is to be a human in front of the lens
And that means doing everything you can
To hide whatever pains, shame, wounds, insecurities you have from the person opposite you
If your starting place is “show the people around me that I’m totally fine and okay”
The script will usually take care of the rest
#6
Be generous to directors by knowing what the point of the scene is
Look at the last beat of the scene
It will tell you why you’re about to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars filming it
Get clear on what’s important at the end of the scene
Articulate it as simply as you can
Example: “There is a spark between Romeo & Juliet”
Then simply play the opposite at the start
This means there will always be a change in the scene
And no scene stays on screen without change
#7
A client who was leading a feature film last year told me:
80% of acting is mindset
I agree
But what’s important here is:
80% of mindset is surrender
Accept the things you cannot control
Remember one of the great laws of quantum physics
The element with the most amount of flexibility controls the system
Supple actors are stronger than brittle ones
Hope this helps
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