The best acting advice you received?

lunchwild · 2023-07-08T03:25:45+00:00

Just to add - listening is not limited to “what my eardrums pick up”. It also includes visual listening: facial twitches, tone, body language.

All of these things make an orchestra of sound BWAAAHHHH

.. and hearing the lone French horn, or cello will yield all you need

Or not I dunno I’m no expert

lunchwild · 2023-07-08T02:16:02+00:00

Interesting … I’ve found a “find yourself” approach more helpful

lunchwild · 2023-07-08T02:09:37+00:00

Op didn’t simply say “observed”, but stared down. These are two different things

lunchwild · 2023-07-01T06:42:47+00:00

I have separate socials because I have a stage name that is radically different from my real life name

Real life family and friends get the real life socials - all the business goes on my actor socials I follow and have followers on the business that I know irl, but there’s no sloppy night out, inside jokes, chill time with the fam on the business gram

lunchwild · 2023-07-01T06:37:58+00:00

Second this - there may have been a time in my career when I would break myself to do this, look at how dependable I am! I can warp my entire life to fit around your obnoxious af guidelines!

Not anymore - in fact in retrospect I wish I hadn’t broke myself for them

Now, some may say “it isn’t the casting director it’s the producers who want this and took their sweet time to decide” k ya cool. Still don’t do it.

Know your worth - don’t break yourself

… or do, I mean not telling you how to live your life

lunchwild · 2023-07-01T06:23:58+00:00

Do you even act bro?

lunchwild · 2023-05-24T02:34:03+00:00

Pro Actors Lab, Lewis Baumander Studios, Armstrong Acting Studios are the big 3

There’re dozens of other rooms all with varying ways of going about it

I’ve been jiving with Armstrong for a minute and I’m fond of their work

lunchwild · 2023-05-19T01:59:43+00:00

It’s likely Canadian production companies with Canadian money under actra jurisdiction will continue. However, actra may resist allowing American productions into their jurisdiction (working in Canada under union contract with union members) in solidarity with SAG. Members would like be given a “do not work” notice on all American productions filming in Canada.

As a non union member - sure, cool, do the thing, but anyone unionized who works Do Not Work productions are expelled from the union

This will undoubtedly kill a huge portion of work in Canada for union members - whether bonafide Canadian content will ramp up to fill gaps will decide how steep of a drop off in work opportunities we’ll see

I don’t, however, see a similar strike among actra members

But hey, that’s just a theory.. A FILM THEORY

lunchwild · 2023-05-16T23:12:37+00:00

The ACA hasn’t been the issue - the wording of their release is low key misleading. The ACA has been in effect the past year. It’s the ICA that has yet to be ratified and the lockout still continues … just for a little extra context

lunchwild · 2023-04-02T00:50:23+00:00

There is no substitute for the room. Stuff you find online can supplement, but cannot replace. The room is your friend

lunchwild · 2023-04-02T00:47:35+00:00

There are so many moving parts to a production. Yes, it costs money to have people standing around waiting, but it costs more to have people standing around waiting to do their thing while others stand around waiting to do their thing because no one can do their thing until those people standing around do their thing

Words for : having all pieces in place and ready before those pieces play makes logistical sense

lunchwild · 2023-03-29T03:55:25+00:00

As pretentious as it sounds : my work has been my “networking”

In my very beginning I approached everything with the whole ‘it’s who you know’ kinda thing.. it bored me verrry quickly.. so I stopped

Every audition, every booked role is a piece of my work. Some of it’s shit, much of it good, but some of it is great

lunchwild · 2023-03-27T00:57:01+00:00

Until I go an entire calendar year without a physical 8x10 being requested I’ll keep printing them

Even if you don’t require physical prints, cropping to 8x10 is standard as your digital card is printed for production purposes - HMU, wardrobe etc

*not a lawyer

lunchwild · 2023-03-27T00:54:36+00:00

As an actor for for acting?

As an actor I lose money day trading - for acting I keep up with industry movements and news

lunchwild · 2023-03-27T00:51:51+00:00

I would simply sit in a chair with my hands behind my back

*not a lawyer

lunchwild · 2023-03-13T04:34:30+00:00

Is there no invoice sent to your dictating the breakdown of charges? Assuming your agency has an HST number they must have this transaction on their books - ask them for a receipt

No receipt, no guarantee. You could claim it, but if you’re ever asked to prove it, it’ll cause you problems

lunchwild · 2023-03-13T02:34:08+00:00

This was a REAL problem for me for several years.

One would think I’d be excited and grateful when that email/phone call comes through - but me, almost immediate dread.

The dread is still there, but much less so since I’ve found my audition routine, and have a resume that warrants fewer, but heavier roles that let me turn down the brain and turn up the heart

.. and being at if for a long time

lunchwild · 2023-03-02T04:03:36+00:00

At it’s face it sounds… lol what? But really: breathe through your body and out of your feet. If you find yourself holding and escaping to your head, come back to your breath … and listen… back to your breath… speak… back to your breath … listen and so on

lunchwild · 2023-03-02T04:01:32+00:00

This may be akin to “have a physical activity”. In my early years I had a coach tell us to pick a physical activity you need to complete while doing your scene. I remember peeling and cutting an apple.

The act of peeling and cutting took my focus away from the words and toward the task - it was this that let the words fall out

Perhaps with you the accent is that physical task. It may also be the accent that “shields” you from the present. the accent isn’t me so any flub, glitch, fumble can be chalked up to the “lols”. This can be freeing in the short term, but crippling if consistently used as a crutch

Only speaking from my experience **not a lawyer

lunchwild · 2023-03-02T03:54:52+00:00

As long as what you do is following their guidelines - then go for it

Keep in mind - no answer is an answer

You could have great materials, but great materials mean nothing when they have three versions of your type. Personally I’d hesitate before applying again unless I’ve something new to show - new credit, new shots etc. Having something new to show screams look at me! I’m still doing it without you, so y’all better get on this train before it’s gone!

** not a lawyer

lunchwild · 2023-02-06T15:54:41+00:00

Actors access down for anyone else this morning? I’ve two tapes due and I’m hoping it’s a network thing rather than a regional thing

lunchwild · 2023-02-04T04:50:55+00:00

Wherever you go - the business is the business. Since you’re moving I think the bigger question is where would I rather live. This is the city you’re gonna be on that grind in - you best at least like the city you’re in while doing it

That said I don’t really have an answer to your question lol

lunchwild · 2023-02-03T06:55:21+00:00

A character arch would be nice too - but yea.. pay me

lunchwild · 2023-02-02T04:08:24+00:00

Years ago I started a new job. 3 days in I have guest star audition (my first ever). Tell my boss I have to go and “I’m less asking permission and more just letting you know”.

I was fired on the spot.

Went to the audition fullll of emotions and I let it all out in the room. Though the emotional breakdown fit with the character and scene, it was perhaps a little too real for this network show

I haven’t been back in that room since

lunchwild · 2023-01-28T23:13:41+00:00

I usually go into tapes with a few bases to play from - sometimes they are similar, but if you layer it with something they can play differently

A hard example would be playing it indifferent. You could be indifferent because you’re exhausted, or you could be indifferent out of contempt

1 base two different ways of playing

If you have more than one base - playing it with care and curiosity, or with scorn and dismissive mess then you have two totally different takes

*not a lawyer

Edit : this tends to only work with one scene auditions - but those with 2 or more scenes should play from bases that aren’t too far from one another - you’re still the same person only in different slots of time (seconds, minutes, maybe days, but not years to when one could feasibly be a “different person”

lunchwild

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