As an actor, it is your job to be what most other normal people would see as a total weirdo. We’re professionally insane. Whether we’re playing a starship captain who breaks down into tears when he’s failed to save the innocent Garlocks from the Zebu Federation, or a woman who just revenge murdered the men that abducted her daughter, we have to buy in. We have to fully believe that we are these people and that these things are actually happening to us. Then we have to do it again and again, take after take, mind-fucking ourselves to believe that we’re experiencing it all fresh, for the first time, discovering it moment by moment. If you don’t buy in 100 percent, there’s no chance the story will ring true and the audience will believe it.
It’s absolutely crazy. It’s absolutely amazing. It’s absolutely addicting.
You have to do whatever you need to do to book work and to be proud of the work you did in the audition and on set. A key part of that is being intentional about your prep process, but also how you use your time before auditions and before going to set to perform.
I ask my students, “After you’ve prepped, how are you spending the hours
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