I thought that I would be able to blog throughout the LAFF, I do apologize.
…Just isn’t time.
I have quite a few informative posts, nearly ready to pub online; so next week should be a good time to look at Hollywood Actor Prep often. That’s a heads up.
For actors, the problems remain the same. I don’t forget this; as I watch more movies that I ever realized are made, each year. As I attend party after party, even with VIP access, or press advantages.
The different professional levels of actors create lives that are so extremely different: in earnings, in lifestyle, in objective regard from the world.
The three or four different categories of professional acting are so radically different; the general life experiences of them are planets apart.
Example:
I saw ‘Public Enemies’ last night and went to the after-party. I was downstairs, and I was upstairs. The downstairs area was enormous, and packed. The upstairs had a VIP
section, and a red rope that separated it from the Very-VIP section. I some spent time in all of them. [I can write about the party later.]
As I was about to leave, at the end of the evening…I saw a young guy, downstairs, who I met outside the actors panel last Sunday. I’ve met quite a few people, and he’s one I happen to bump into a bit more, here at the LA Film Fest.
Obviously, he had somehow wrangled his way into the party at the end. The security must’ve slackened a bit, because it was extremely tight on party-entry, and throughout.
This guy is handsome; a bit of a tinge of his own funky style. He seems bright. He’s been doggedly attending all the high level stuff, as far as intelligent offerings of the film fest.
He was resourceful enough to somehow get into the party. He and Johnny Depp, if placed side-by-side, would look like friends. Related, maybe.
More related, or connected, than anyone that I saw surrounding Johnny Depp upstairs. All the agents, and studio people, PR…
[Listen, I'm late, and I've got to get to a discussion group at the LAFF Lounge.]
Point is, real actors are a rare breed. And the contribution that actors make, and have always made, to our culture, and to every culture, every damn society…is just vital.
The art of acting, is immeasurable in terms of any value basis that we have.
And to those of us who are lucky enough to be actors; we experience an evolution of our own art form, inside ourselves that is so damn beautiful… That I do feel sorry that others don’t know that beauty inside, if they aren’t born to do it.
[I'm sure I'll edit this later. I am so pressed for time.]
To Johnny, your artistry and it’s ever-evolving, makes us all proud of the fact that we are artists. And it raises the bar. Often.
It keeps the art an art, in a business that would take it either way, and would easily distort or bastardize it. (And sometimes does. It can’t touch yours though.)
And to the other guy, in the specialness all your own, you probably will not read this, as I haven’t mentioned this blog. You don’t know this either: I am committed to making a diff in your life. And other actors like you.
Entry into the acting business remains too difficult; impossible actually, for the majority of beautifully talented people, passionate about their art form– of acting.
The professional actor, of low or middle range, thriving with talent, skill, and ability; has a tough time surviving in livlihood. Their families too.
I’ve said this before and I repeat again: Acting is a beautiful thing. An actor is a virtuous profession. It’s a valuable profession.
My mission is to make things better for actors, somehow, someway. We’ve got to get our society to jibe the respect for the profession. To support the profession, with respect, at all levels.
And we really need to create a way, for all the talent that can’t, to easily get in.
Best,
:~Dana
Please pass this respect around…
