The world feels like it’s coming apart. The industry seems uncaring. Your reps (if you have them) are wrapped up in the pilot season/awards/industry swirl and can’t help; hell, they’re not even returning your emails. There’s a knot in your stomach and you feel stuck. As deep-feeling beings, you’re carrying a ton of stress, anxiety, and fear. There doesn’t seem to be a way out. You want to crawl into bed and binge watch…anything.
We get it. It sucks.
First, know that you’re not alone. You and thousands of other people, hundreds of other actors, tons of other industry professionals are feeling it. Television crews are exhausted, counting the days until they get a vacation. More than ever, pilot producers are desperately scrambling to put their show together, praying for divine intervention. Movie people are wondering how to reclaim a business that has become a shadow of its former self and more specifically, how to pay their rent, even after making a celebrated Sundance film.
So, what’s an actor to do?
You cannot shut down. Your job requires you to stay present and vulnerable, to be affected by the people and things around you, no matter how painful. And to be leaders in
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