Due to the internet, showbiz has changed radically in the few years. Self-submissions? Paper headshots and résumés? Making rounds? That’s over. Change is good but requires a different approach. You need to revise your marketing perspective. It’s a new world.
Here’s a quick review. In the 1960s through the 90ss, actors could study theater, come to New York, audition, and get cast in a Broadway or an Off-Broadway show, and “bounce up” into films heading for “the Coast,” aka Hollywood. Great examples include Paul Newman, Marlon Brando, Robert Redford, Meryl Streep, and Al Pacino.
There were clearly defined boundaries back then between being a theater actor (high status), a film actor (glamorous but not necessarily considered talented), and the TV actor (the lowest status; considered a “pretty face”). With few exceptions, most of the TV at that time wasn’t perceived as particularly very good. If you look at some of the old series today, they seem pretty lightweight.
Then, due to economics (i.e. the cost of producing Broadway shows), it became absolutely necessary to hire “stars” and known actors to make the shows successful with a hefty advance sale
Due to the internet, showbiz has changed radically in the few years. Self-submissions? Paper headshots and résumés? Making rounds? That’s over. Change is good but requires a different approach. You need to revise your marketing perspective. It’s a new world.
Here’s a quick review. In the 1960s through the 90ss, actors could study theater, come to New York, audition, and get cast in a Broadway or an Off-Broadway show, and “bounce up” into films heading for “the Coast,” aka Hollywood. Great examples include Paul Newman, Marlon Brando, Robert Redford, Meryl Streep, and Al Pacino.
There were clearly defined boundaries back then between being a theater actor (high status), a film actor (glamorous but not necessarily considered talented), and the TV actor (the lowest status; considered a “pretty face”). With few exceptions, most of the TV at that time wasn’t perceived as particularly very good. If you look at some of the old series today, they seem pretty lightweight.
Then, due to economics (i.e. the cost of producing Broadway shows), it became absolutely necessary to hire “stars” and known actors to make the shows successful with a hefty advance sale
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