You know the importance of surprise in your acting craft. The best moments arise when you don’t have an agenda for how you think a scene should unfold. Well, I’ve got an important marketing message for you that mirrors this acting truth: you must be willing to surprise yourself. You cannot fathom what is possible for your future and you certainly cannot plan for it. So the opportunity and challenge that awaits is to simply replace your need to know with a willingness to find out. You don’t have to know precisely HOW you will book your next big job. You can only know for sure that you want it and that you’re willing to leap toward it. That’s why you cannot reach your full potential without the element of surprise.
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Because of the work I do with actors, a lot of people assume that I must have been an actor myself at some point. My story’s not that streamlined; watch the video to hear the real story of how I became the Actor’s Advocate.
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If you plan on acting for longer than a couple of years, you’re bound to find that your castability will evolve as you do. Perhaps you were an ingenue, but after a couple of decades of acting, you just don’t fit into that category any more. Maybe you’ve lost a lot of weight and you look different. Maybe you just feel like you’ve evolved as a person and want to pursue different roles than what you’ve booked in the past. So, how can you market yourself effectively when you think your type has changed? Watch this week’s Acting Business Bite to find out.
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