This business is full of tricksters trying to take advantage of actors. But knowledge is power, and actors are a talented and smart group.
As industry professionals spanning various areas of the business, our Backstage Experts have seen some slimy acting scams, so we knew they’d be the perfect bunch to ask the following question:
What are some clear signs of an acting scam?
Here are answers from seven industry professionals!
(And if you missed the last installment of this column (and didn’t get what you wanted for the holidays), check out “14 Epic Actor Fails” and see how to get your acting questions answered at the bottom of this article!)
Paul Barry, L.A.-based acting teacher and founder of Acting 4 Camera If you’ve never been scammed before, don’t worry about it. If you’ve been scammed once or twice in your life, you probably got unlucky. Move on. If you find yourself being scammed on a regular basis, then the question for you is not how to spot a scammer, but why do you repeat the same mistake time and time again?
Naiveté is a wonderful quality in an actor, but a lousy one in a business owner. You are a business owner, and your cash flow dictates
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