Our Backstage Experts are acting teachers, coaches, casting directors, actors themselves, and everything in between. Having been in the industry for decades, they’ve learned plenty, but there are still things they wish they knew before their careers began. So we asked them:
What’s one thing you wish you’d known before you started in the industry?
Here are answers from 14 industry professionals!
(And if you missed the last installment of this column, check out “15 Performances All Actors Must See” and see how to get your acting questions answered at the bottom of this article!)
Greg Apps, Sydney-based casting director for over 35 yearsAs an actor, when I received the sides for an audition, it was my only link to the character. I placed so much importance on the words on the page, the scene directions, the actions of the character—I thought audition success was driven by accurately recreating these pages. Now, as a casting director, on audition day, I see the same lines again and again. If your goal is to deliver them exactly as the punctuation and actions dictate, then I will start to yawn. I yearn for actors to arrive in the room and deliver their version of the
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