Your Best & Worst Work

There are a few things really worth taking responsibility for as an actor

Worth creating discipline around

Which will result in a glorious freedom.

Taking care of your health

Will give you freedom as an artist.

Taking care of your wealth

Will give you enormous freedom as an artist

Freedom to say no

Freedom to work on things which energise rather than those that clash with your values

Freedom to work with people you like working with.

Taking care of your tribe will give you freedom

It means you can get on with the job

Knowing you have safety with your colleagues, family and friends

And not having to spend time on set desperately trying to get people to like you.

Taking care of your practice and craft

Let’s make this clear

It’s your average work that will define your career

Not your highlights

How you rock up on the average day

On the average job

Doing that average scene

This is what will result in a sustainable career

So raise your average

This will give extraordinary freedom

To know you can rock up

Day after day

And give the work you want to

Regardless of the situation

Cause lets face it

The situation is almost always chaos

I asked a friend and colleague of mine a while back

(Someone who has had a solid two decades of working consistently in screen & theatre)

How many jobs he has worked on

Where everything came together

Where the script, people, pay, location, logistics etc

All came together for a truly special experience

Two

He has had two jobs in two decades

Which holistically ticked all the boxes

Where it felt like the gods said yes to all the prayers

And for myself?

I have had three.

You get my point

An incredible director from the RSC once told me

Michael…

The acting gods don’t descend very often

Rely on your your craft to raise your average

This will build your confidence in showing up

Day in

Day out

So

Remove pressure to give some wildly extraordinary performance

And accept the fool by give up on hiding your worst work

And instead of

Focus on your average

Focus on slowly And kindly raising your average

Curious what this looks like for you

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