Dry Spell

IN MY OPINION;

WILLIAM REYNOLDS;

I'M GOING THROUGH A DRY SPELL NO ONE LIKES ME.

. Are you prepared? You better be. Yes, sometimes auditions are horrendously LAST MINUTE  and you’re basically cramming in your car on the way to reading for the producers, but often, you usually have at least a day’s turnaround before you have to go in. Your agent sends you material so you can look at it ahead of time, and not for the first time when you’re in the waiting room. By the time you’ve written your name down on the waiting list you should know exactly how you’re going to approach the material and how you can properly embody the character. No one necessarily expects you to be off-book (and certainly don’t pretend you are off-book when you’re not) but you should be familiar with the text, the cadence in which you’re going to speak, and how you’re going to physically approach a character. Not being prepared is tremendously detrimental to you as an actor. It not only shows the producers and casting director that you couldn’t be bothered to take their audition and meeting seriously—it also conveys to them that perhaps you won’t take the job seriously either. On top of that, not being prepared makes your AGENT look bad, which in turns makes THEM UNHAPPY which then results in them being LESS INCLINED TO PITCH for future projects. Granted, some auditions might require you to improv, but even with that in mind, you should go into the audition knowing everything there is to know about the project, story, character, etc. so that you can better create a well-rounded audition—even if it’s all improvised. AND AS MENTIONED BEFORE, RETURN CALLS AND TEXTS FROM YOUR AGENT, SHOW THAT YOU ACTUALLY 'WANT TO WORK'. DON'T SAY, 'OH, I'"ll DO IT WHEN I GET HOME". THE AGENT

HAS TO ANSWER TO THE CLIENT THAT IS TRYING TO BOOK YOU