Listed here are issues I’ve discovered from being an actor over dozens of pilot seasons. Be happy to share!
1. You should have 15 pages to memorize for an audition, and if you present up, they are going to inform you that you’re solely studying half of the final scene.
2. You’ll put together 20 pages of sides, and present up solely to search out out your agent forgot to provide the “revised pages.”
3. They’ll ask you to learn for 4 different roles “while you’re ready.”
4. Casting administrators will say “Good to satisfy you,” although you have got met them 43 occasions.
5. In your technique to an audition, they are going to cancel your appointment as a result of the position has been solid.
6. In your technique to an audition, they are going to cancel an audition as a result of they modified the age, gender, and/or ethnicity.
7. Your pals will go on extra auditions than you. At all times.
8. Your agent will inform you they are not giving suggestions throughout pilot season.
9. Your agent will inform you “it may get actually loopy,” and it will not.
10. You’ll take into consideration firing your agent and supervisor each day.
11. You’ll ebook a pilot, solely to be fired after the desk learn.
12. You’ll ebook a pilot, the present will get picked up, and you’ll be recast.
13. Your mother and father will ask what a pilot is, and marvel when they’re going to see you on TV.
14. You may be requested to display check, get a quote, signal a contract for the subsequent seven years of your life, see how a lot cash you’ll make, together with backend factors and wage bumps, fly out to LA to learn for community, not get the job, after which be happening a Taco Bell audition the subsequent day.
15. You may be sitting in a ready room ready to audition, and you’ll hear the assistant speaking to an agent on the telephone and making a proposal to another person for the position.
16. You may be instructed that each casting director “LOVES you.”
17. You’ll go on tape, and the subsequent day be flying out to LA to check.
18. You’ll go on tape 150 occasions and by no means hear something.
19. You may be in ready rooms with 50 those who look identical to you, costume such as you, discuss such as you, and have higher brokers than you.
20. Your agent won’t ever return your calls.
21. Your supervisor will return your calls per week later.
22. Your mother will all the time return your calls.
23. You’ll in all probability get fired out of your survival job as a result of you may by no means cowl your shift in time.
24. You may be requested to not fear concerning the accent, after which be requested to “simply go for it” within the audition.
25. You’ll learn a breakdown, and say “that is me!”. And so will everybody else.
26. You’ll undergo 1,046 feelings each day.
27. You’ll hear “They’re going one other approach” 1,046 occasions.
28. You’ll think about doing further work.
29. You’ll always bitch about “the state of present TV” to your pals.
30. “Too tall, too skinny, too homosexual, not homosexual sufficient, too macho, not road good, too ‘cable,’ no charisma, a bit thick, not feeling it, not a fan, large fan, a bit shiny.” All suggestions. All actual.
However hey, have enjoyable on the market!!!
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