What do you do when you have one vision of your career and your agent has another?
You don’t want to do horror films, for example, but you will accept a supporting or guest role on a primetime show. However, your agent will only submit you on guest-starring or contract roles for TV and wants you to do anything in film. You want to create your own Web series but she strictly rejects that direction or anything online. You want to go to NYC to do a Broadway show but he won’t submit you and advises against it. You hate your new headshots, but she loves them!
Well, obviously you need to sit down and discuss the gap in your communication and your separate visions. If you didn’t get along it’d be easy to hit the road and leave, but it’s not so simple.
You love your agent for many reasons: She got you several major auditions leading to both TV and film work. She even advised you to stop doing commercials, print work, and out of town tours when you were scared of not having enough income if you turned those offers down. She believed in you when you doubted yourself, and it all worked out. You did make a living doing challenging TV roles instead of commercials or theater jobs!
You’ve been
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