Tag Archive: the business

Actors Do Get Fired.

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Imagine Being An Actor, Overcoming All The Professional Actor Hurdles... ...Of breaking into the real acting business, and building an acting career. Making a real good reputation, based on your performances, as a professional actor, within the industry. Regularly guest-starring on a popular show, as a very strong identifiable character on that TV show. Then, booking a pilot ...

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Marlon Brando On Acting, The Public, The Business

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Brando: You can see it on the faces of the air hostesses’ expressions, you can see it when you rent a car, you can see it when you walk into a restaurant. If you’ve made a hit movie, then you get the full thirty-two-teeth display in some places…

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Kurt Sutter (TV Showrunner) Reads Aloud :: How Networks Work

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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. Kurt Sutter, creator of the TV show, Sons Of Anarchy, reads aloud, from his blog called SutterInk.

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Actor Michelle Monaghan On Increasing Women’s Roles, Character Development, and ‘Trucker’ Trailers

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Actor Michelle Monaghan on the role of Diane, in the film ‘Trucker’: “I Wanted This Role So Bad! …I Loved The Story And The Character, And I Trusted The Director.” …How she works, her acting process, what she thinks about the business, and women’s parts in movies.

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Actor Michelle Monaghan On Increasing Women's Roles, Character Development, and 'Trucker' Trailers

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Actor Michelle Monaghan on the role of Diane, in the film ‘Trucker’: “I Wanted This Role So Bad! …I Loved The Story And The Character, And I Trusted The Director.” …How she works, her acting process, what she thinks about the business, and women’s parts in movies.

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I Don’t Wanna Be Like Your Mama, Actors, And Say I Told You So…

But… if you are going around doing measly auditions that aren’t really going to highlight you and that no one is going to come to, or uccch, not even hire you for; or you’re spending all your time doing extra work, or worse: paying dues at the unions and barely making rent and not getting any decent auditions…Don’t. Prioritize, to maximize, the priorities, first. The ones that will amount…

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I Don't Wanna Be Like Your Mama, Actors, And Say I Told You So…

But… if you are going around doing measly auditions that aren’t really going to highlight you and that no one is going to come to, or uccch, not even hire you for; or you’re spending all your time doing extra work, or worse: paying dues at the unions and barely making rent and not getting any decent auditions…Don’t. Prioritize, to maximize, the priorities, first. The ones that will amount…

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SAG Actors Get A New Vote: But About Contract, Instead of Strike?

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Example: For an actor who has never worked, the $28 dollars that the AMPTP is offering for per-show (with no residuals for any re-play)…well, that may seem great to a young actor who has never had a paying job. Or who has spent a year, breaking their back, suffering indignities, and maybe doing “background”/extra work, so as to get their “3 jobs” so they could qualify for eligibility for a SAG card…)

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Mickey Rourke :: On Each Film In His Acting Resume

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Which directors were perfectionists, and why Mickey Rourke liked that; which directors were unlikable, and what it was that made them that way…And which ones had unusual ways of motivating the actors…
All of the actors, the directors, that you hear about in this interview clip… are probably familiar names to you.

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Animation Video About Residuals + SAG Strike

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Current Residual Situation, AMPTP's Offer Explained Found this animation movie, about residuals, on YouTube. Cute...Short... Simple....Clear?   Does Acting Have Value? What it basically comes down to is this:  The conglomerate corporations think that "talent" shouldn't be paid everytime that they provide the audience with entertainment.  With talent.  With their visibility. Every time their likeness and abilities, and ...

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Explaining The Actors Strike, Simply

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The SAG Strike–Most people don’t even know what is being negotiated…Actors don’t know…nor do the journalists covering it…It’s quite understandable… I made it really simple here…

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Re: Responses to “Talent Agencies” Post

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For decades, I’ve been accruing and keeping this information (of which I will put all of it on this blog and on the Hollywood Actor Prep Website), and it’s all inside my brain, but I am used to it, and don’t realize how much there really is… that is, until… each and every time I set out to write a post…
I suddenly am aware that there is a whole lot of ground to cover.

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Re: Responses to "Talent Agencies" Post

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For decades, I’ve been accruing and keeping this information (of which I will put all of it on this blog and on the Hollywood Actor Prep Website), and it’s all inside my brain, but I am used to it, and don’t realize how much there really is… that is, until… each and every time I set out to write a post…
I suddenly am aware that there is a whole lot of ground to cover.

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Professional Actor MythBust #1 :: AGENTS ::

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Okay, here’s my post on talent agents, and it’s for those actors who haven’t yet tried to get one. (If you have, you can read along, and weep with recognition…) .One of the worst of acting-career-wall-slams has to do with the subject of agents–WHY? Easy. One simple word…

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Screen Actor Guild’s Web Address

The website for SAG is www.sag.org. You may want to check it out, if you've never been; you may want to bookmark it, and go back to it from time to time. Whether or not you have joined, as yet.  There is a wealth of information ...

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