Your audition is your gift.
This isn’t just a nice philosophy, it’s the truth. You are giving your time, your creativity, your talent. Your audition is a gift. It is a slice of the amazing talent that you have been given—that you, in fact, are. It is a piece of the reason you gave up everything and became an actor, and if you can bring that into the room, it’s something that lingers wonderfully long after you leave. It is something that we in casting remember you by. There are dozens of auditions I remember so vividly, and have always brought the actors back in as often as possible.
Your gift is not just simply your talent. Your audition is your gift. You are giving a gift. You have put a lot of time and energy into picking it out. It is also your point of view, your experience—it’s everything about you. Your talent is something that was given to you. Your performances, and more frequently your auditions, are your gift to the rest of the world.
So afraid of being judged, actors—not all but many—second-guess their choices for the audition so many times it becomes so impersonal, so safe and generic that in the world of gifts, it becomes the Christmas fruitcake, or the
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