Kurt Sutter (TV Showrunner) Reads Aloud :: How Networks Work
Kurt Sutter Tells It Like It Is. Everything. Including Why Creativity Doesn’t Pass Into TV Programming.
Sutter Created Sons Of Anarchy...My favorite show of this past Fall.
This interview was on KCRW, our local Santa Monica College station.
The specific show is The Business, and it is about the entertainment industry.
How’s this apply to Actors? What’s so great?
Lots.
I can’t stress enough, about how you really need to know about how the business works…Actors…before you jump in.
Do you want to know about the business, really? Why television, especially, is so difficult? Sutter is absolutely succinct about how it works.
He happens to be a writer, and a funny one, too. At the same time that he’s the most accurate, and most blatant.
He’s also married to Katey Sagal, and you gotta love him for that. He’s got a blog called SutterInk. Even though he tells-it-like-it-is, in the business that demands everyone to tell-it-like-it-isn’t…Sutter has survived, and thrived, and reads some juicy selections aloud, on this radio show I embedded here.
If you are an actor, and you have this idea that what TV executives are looking for is talent, is creativity…You should listen to this.
Illusions don’t produce prosperity, at all.
Knowing the facts, and the “lay of the land”, gives you the information you need, to be able to succeed. You can’t surmount hurdles that you don’t know exist.
(I know that is one of my big ‘themes’, but I can’t stress it enough…Especially, since I have been talking to actors on Twitter, and during my weekly, Sunday Brunch With Dana! Surprising amount of misconception going on…)
Enough with the heaviness, and lessons..Listen, and I hope you enjoy. I sure did.
Kurt Sutter is @sutterink on Twitter.
I am @__dana__ on Twitter.
Those are both links.
Here is a link to Kurt Sutter’s blog.
Here is a link to my other blog, called Hollywood Oscar Prep, or simply OSCARPREP.COM.
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Dana
