Learning how to be a “good” actor is only step one of your value as a professional actor, and it isn’t enough to make you worthy of success. You should know how to talk, listen, respond, react, and behave like a real person in imaginary circumstances. That’s the price of admission to this game. You don’t even belong on the field if you don’t first know how to act well.
Once you’re on the field, though, now you’re up against other skilled actors, and what will make you more consistently bookable than others will be your ability to help tell compelling stories, combining your skilled acting with thoughtful, creative choices that bring the story to an elevated level—hopefully to the sublime.
Disappointingly, most of the actors I meet never achieve, let alone move past, Step 1. It’s hard enough to convince an actor that they’re not God’s gift to the world and inherently deserving of accolades and film and series lead roles without proper training. Once you actually get an actor into a class, you have to pray it’s a good class that will be a responsible steward of the responsibility to deliver solid value and hold the student to a standard of excellence,
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