If you have prepared your audition piece in a way that has given you a strong and interesting intent, relationships that have true resonance, choices that are specific and dynamic, and a technique that has rooted these decisions in your body so you can flow through the piece connected to your energy, then it should be easy to let it all go and just be. And yet actors still find this a difficult thing to do.
To be clear, letting go is impossible for the actor who isn’t in total ownership of his or her work and the piece. After all, you can’t let go of what you don’t have. So let’s keep our focus on the actor who has done the work and who has truly embodied the piece.
One of the primary reasons actors find letting go in auditions difficult is that they tend not to be very good at it in real life. Humans, in general, tend to grasp onto the people and things we love and even cling to our negative experiences, going over them again and again in our minds in an effort to make sense of them. So in order to let go in the audition room, you need to have a frame of reference for letting go in your life and body.
Here are two things you can practice letting go of in your life that will help you get those
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