Tag Archive: working actor

Dana Is Doing One-On-One Coaching, And Rare ProActor Workshop

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Most actors spend most of their career, on the wrong path, that will never lead them into The Industry. Won’t help them get toward an acting career, even though they think it will.
I am talking about actors who get good training somewhere, maybe even college or grad school, or may even have a good coach!
Still they don’t have a clue about what it specifically takes, to become a professional actor.
And there is no other teacher or website that can teach all this, specifically this. Nope.
And I don’t know if I will want to do this again…

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Actor Garret Dillahunt Describes Acting In Horror Films!

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Los Angeles actor, Garret Dillahunt, plays quite an evil guy in 'The Last House On The Left'.  In this interview, he makes a great point about "acting craft".   The interviewer asks him if he changes, as a person (inside) when he plays such a character; one who rapes, and easily carries out some very awful ...

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Director Darren Aronofsky Of The Wrestler :: Film-Set Rules, & Actors’ Vulnerability

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“Sets are very, very high-powered places where things go awry all the time and emotions are high. People are out there working really hard and exposing themselves, especially actors, and they need to be protected,” Aronofsky explained.

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Director Darren Aronofsky Of The Wrestler :: Film-Set Rules, & Actors' Vulnerability

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“Sets are very, very high-powered places where things go awry all the time and emotions are high. People are out there working really hard and exposing themselves, especially actors, and they need to be protected,” Aronofsky explained.

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Actor Kevin Spacey, On Determination

Eventually, Kevin Spacey did get the role in the play. How?

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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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Actor Union Negotiator Not Ousted Yesterday!

It’s a hell-of-a-lot more dramatic to report all this drama, I guess…then the truth of how difficult it is to survive as an actor. What the life really is.

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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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Today SAG Will Announce Results of New Board Elections

The Screen Actors Guild announces its new Elected Board Members. The ones who win will reflect which side, of the two warring sides of the professional actors, will be running SAG. This is a very important side. In this post, I talk about what is at the heart of this actor war, and what are some possible consequences.

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Welcome to the Hollywood Actor Prep Blog!

I write from Hollywood, California. To where ever you are.  To let you know that there is a whole bunch of stuff that you need to know BEFORE you come out here to be an actor. Before you get started.  To be an actor that WORKS.  There's ...

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"So many great painters, great musicians, great geniuses ended with nothing. With broken hearts in rooms ... I want to see artists sitting at the table that decide the outcome of their lives." --Bono
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