Sometimes it feels like you’re a thousand miles from the industry, like no one knows you and no one cares. No agent is calling, no casting director is noticing, no one is inviting you to work.
You’re doing everything you can to make it happen. You’re hustling, training, submitting. But you’re rewarded with silence. So your head starts to spin. It starts simply enough with, “Maybe it’s my headshots” or “Maybe I need to re-edit my reel” or “Maybe I need to do more casting director workshops.”
And then…“Or maybe it’s me. Maybe I’m not talented.”
The sink-hole of doubt deepens, eating an ever-widening swathe of your confidence and joy as you desperately try to think through a problem that can’t be thought through.
No matter where you are in your career, there’s only one way out of this hole, one door that leads to an actor feeling whole and finding success. That answer? The Work.
The craft of acting is what ignited your passion in the first place. The work propelled you across the country or the world to give your life to acting and make it your career. The work is what gets you booked. It is your product. It’s what
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