Becoming a working actor, while quite artistically fulfilling, is creating yourself as a business. All businesses need to market themselves to potential clients and clearly define what they are offering. As an actor, you want to have a clear definition of what you are offering potential clients seeking your services. If you don’t, this would be like a restaurant only writing, “We serve food” in its description. While you may be hungry, you would be less likely to find an establishment appetizing if you didn’t know what you were being served.
You are a talented performer with an entire rainbow of characters you can emotionally portray. The reality is, physically, you won’t be seen as everything. It is human nature for people to categorize others. Before a personal relationship exists, people associate the physical appearance of others with things like ideology, personality, social class, etc. It is a casting director’s job to understand these associations and their use in effectively telling a story by assigning a type of person to a particular role.
Some people have more than one type. Others may have a very specific quality about them. I’ve had clients that look like they
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