Have you been there? You walk into the audition wait room and there before you is a sea of other actors, not one of them has the same look as you.
“Maybe I’m in the wrong room,” you think. “She doesn’t look like my type. Am I early? Did I miss it?”
Nope. You’re in the right place, you just happen to be the only waiting to audition who isn’t sporting the same look as everyone else. Awkward.
But it doesn’t have to be. Take a breath. You are supposed to be there.
Keep in mind that the commercial industry is rooted in fear. They have no idea if the spot is going to work until it runs, so sometimes they shotgun their choices.
You can hear the screams from the production offices and casting director, “BRING IN WOMEN!? BRING IN MEN?! BRING IN EVERYONE!?”
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Maybe the fact that everyone else in the waiting room looks alike (except for you) is a coincidence or maybe it’s purposeful. Either way, it doesn’t matter because you are supposed to be there. You got the call. They know what you look like and what your skills are—they would not have brought you in if
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