What books the job in the audition room? Who the hell knows? You can’t know for sure what will get you hired, and you just have to not care. Your focus cannot be on booking the job or on how to do it right. There are so many factors that go into someone getting cast in a role. Are you taller than movie’s lead? Different from what the writer pictured in her head? Does the producer only want a name actor?
All you have control over is the work you do in the room.
We were talking about this in class today: how to have the confidence to drop in. And the answer is not to audition—not to show up to be evaluated or judged and not to do what you imagine is their perfect idea of the role is. They don’t have a perfect idea. They want you to move them. They want you to take their words and make them soar.Your job is not to audition for the role. Your job is to bring yourself to the story. Your job is to go to work.
Here are a few things that book jobs in the audition room. They certainly work for us.
1. Treat the audition as play. Throw yourself fully into the joyousness of the world. You love to act, so love this moment to do just that.
2. Stop acting. We hear this a lot. We say it a lot.
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