Stop auditioning!
What? “Tony, I can’t get a job if I don’t audition!”
Yes, you can. In fact, you book jobs when you take the whole paradigm of what an audition is and turn it on its head.
The term “auditioning” stacks you against yourself, telling you that you have something to prove.
You don’t.
Nothing. Nada. Zilch. Zero. Absolutely nothing to prove.
You are already whole and complete regardless of what anyone thinks of your work.
Emmy winner Bryan Cranston says, “You’re not going [to an audition] to get a job, you’re going there to present what you do. You act. And there it is. You walk away. And there’s power in that!”
So your job is to simply create, the way you want to create.
1. The audition isn’t all about you. I know actors think that the audition all boils down to them…but it doesn’t. The actor is one of several moving parts and what you do—or don’t do—in the audition is really not that big a deal. The casting director is not obsessing over the mistakes you think you made. They have a casting problem and they’re hoping you are the answer. But if you’re not, it’s not personal.
2. There
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