GOOD ADVICE

QUESTION - WHO IS MORE LIKELY TO GIVE YOU GOOD ADVICE ON:

The law....A Doctor, a Lawyer, or a Criminal?

Medicine.....An Attorney, another Patient or a Doctor?

Building a bridge....A Carpenter, a Lawyer, an Actor or an Engineer?

On acting......A movie extra, another Actor, a Screenwriter, Your family,  or a Film Director?

(be careful on this one)

If you were going to try to get into the Olympics in Track and Field competition, say the 100 meters, would you run only 100 meters a few times or push yourself WAY beyond what was required in the actual competition? You are going to go WAY beyond just the 100 meters. You can bet your next paycheck that you are NOT going to be the only super athlete there that wants YOUR spot. Same thing on auditions. Auditions are just that, 'auditions' or 'rehearsals'. To find out who can do the job. Way too many actors take this less than seriously. Just kinda 'show up', go through the motions but never get involved with the character they are attempting to portray.  Part of being an actor is NOT being yourself, unless the movie is a documentary on 'your' life. Say playing a 'homeless person', a 'serial killer' a bigot or racist person' from an earlier era. These roles may make 'you' feel uncomfortable. That is exactly why they call it 'ACTING" and someone out there IS going to get the role. Some roles you may have some real life experience in, having something that at least you have touched on in your real life.  Others not so much, and

will require research.

You can't just play an athlete overnight, you have to be one, know the pain of becoming one.  Or just show up in a courtroom playing an attorney. You will have to learn, through your own personal research just what actually goes on in a courtroom. The mannerisms of each of those involved. And you certainly do not accomplish this with one or two visits to an actual courtroom.

DID YOU KNOW that it takes, on average, about 13 weeks to film a feature film? But there is also 13 weeks of pre-production. The getting prepared to shoot, to film, for the actors to prepare, re-writes on the script etc. And then there are about 13 weeks of post-production, the editing of the 13 weeks of filming scenes over and over and over again to get it just right. All the while the producers are spending millions and millions and even more millions of dollars.  All of this for a two-hour movie.

AND YOU....THE ACTOR....IS WHAT THE AUDIENCE SEES. NOT ALL OF THE OTHER WORK PUT IN BY SOMETIMES A HUNDRED PROFESSIONALS.

SO YEAH, YOU THE ACTOR MUST BE PREPARED TO THE FULLEST'.

GET THAT STRAIGHT FROM THE GET GO, NOW.