WEBVTT - The Spirited Actor - Doing The Work 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:03.280 Hello, and welcome to the Spirited Actor Podcast with me 0:00:03.520 --> 0:00:06.440 Tracy Moore. I was a casting director for film and 0:00:06.480 --> 0:00:10.600 TV and commercials for over thirty years. I transitioned to 0:00:10.640 --> 0:00:14.200 a celebrity acting coach after I cast a film New 0:00:14.280 --> 0:00:19.400 Jersey Drive with executive producers Spike Lee and director Nick Domez. 0:00:20.040 --> 0:00:24.439 I auditioned every rapper from biggiees Balls to Tupac, and 0:00:24.560 --> 0:00:28.200 I realized that rappers and musical artists they needed help 0:00:28.280 --> 0:00:32.600 transitioning to acting. My clients consist of musical artists from 0:00:32.760 --> 0:00:37.400 Buster Rhymes to Eve, Missy Elliott, Angela Yee from The 0:00:37.440 --> 0:00:41.120 Breakfast Club, and Vanessa Simmons to name a few. I 0:00:41.240 --> 0:00:45.080 also coach sports stars and host as well. I feel 0:00:45.280 --> 0:00:48.720 I have the best of both worlds. As a casting director, 0:00:48.760 --> 0:00:51.320 I know exactly what they're looking for, and as an 0:00:51.360 --> 0:00:53.800 acting coach, I can coach you to be remembered in 0:00:53.880 --> 0:00:54.440 that room. 0:00:54.720 --> 0:00:55.200 Now I know. 0:00:55.520 --> 0:00:58.640 I know actors want to get the job. I get that, 0:00:59.120 --> 0:01:03.280 But being remembered by a casting director that is powerful. 0:01:03.960 --> 0:01:07.040 And now it's time for meditation of the day. Ask 0:01:07.520 --> 0:01:10.800 and it shall be received. Ask and it shall be 0:01:10.840 --> 0:01:18.800 received by God. There's a promise whatever religious belief that 0:01:18.880 --> 0:01:26.520 you have. There's a promise in Christianity Baptist that says 0:01:26.800 --> 0:01:31.040 ask and you shall receive. It doesn't say ask, negotiate, 0:01:31.160 --> 0:01:34.759 ass compromises, says ask, which is your part? 0:01:35.160 --> 0:01:35.360 Right? 0:01:35.840 --> 0:01:41.040 You ask, I want to travel the world and you 0:01:41.120 --> 0:01:46.640 receive it. In that time space of you asking and 0:01:46.760 --> 0:01:49.240 the receiving, that's when you. 0:01:49.320 --> 0:01:52.080 Got to be patient. You got to take a breath, 0:01:52.520 --> 0:01:56.320 You got to distract yourself, distract yourself by seeing what 0:01:56.440 --> 0:02:00.360 it is that you ask for in present day. Right. 0:02:00.760 --> 0:02:02.680 So I'm going to tell you guys this because I 0:02:02.720 --> 0:02:06.520 believe in my heart this is happening. But for Christmas 0:02:06.560 --> 0:02:09.440 this year, I want to be in San Francisco. I 0:02:09.480 --> 0:02:13.000 feel like I want to be home for Christmas right now, 0:02:13.240 --> 0:02:16.120 cold weather, maybe just the fog, Me and the fog 0:02:16.160 --> 0:02:22.880 and the family. Right December, I'm going to be in 0:02:22.960 --> 0:02:24.760 San Francisco for Christmas. 0:02:24.919 --> 0:02:25.680 I just asked. 0:02:26.080 --> 0:02:29.160 Now I'm going to be patient with the process that's 0:02:29.160 --> 0:02:33.520 going to lead me to receiving, which is being in 0:02:33.560 --> 0:02:35.800 San Francisco for Christmas. 0:02:36.320 --> 0:02:36.840 Today. 0:02:37.320 --> 0:02:40.800 I will ask, I will be patient, I will see 0:02:40.840 --> 0:02:44.360 the signs, I will breathe and trust. 0:02:44.360 --> 0:02:48.720 That I will receive Before we get started. 0:02:48.960 --> 0:02:52.080 I like to remind everyone to go to Krackical Network 0:02:52.120 --> 0:02:56.120 to view seasons one and two of my show Inside 0:02:56.160 --> 0:02:59.079 the black Box that I co host with the great 0:02:59.520 --> 0:03:04.960 Emmio Award winning Joe Morton. Look out for news on 0:03:05.200 --> 0:03:10.600 season three soon. Welcome to the Spirited Actor Podcast with 0:03:10.680 --> 0:03:18.160 me Tracy Moore, and today I am your guest. I 0:03:18.240 --> 0:03:19.560 want to have. 0:03:20.440 --> 0:03:24.560 A conversation with actors today. I want to. 0:03:24.480 --> 0:03:30.560 Have like a real one on one, honest, brutally honest 0:03:30.600 --> 0:03:40.000 in some cases, conversation with you today. Now, I'm going 0:03:40.080 --> 0:03:42.680 to give some of you who don't know my background, 0:03:43.160 --> 0:03:45.040 the edited version. 0:03:44.920 --> 0:03:48.800 Of my background. But the edited version of my background. 0:03:48.920 --> 0:03:51.720 I started in casting. 0:03:53.000 --> 0:03:57.600 I started out in the mid to late eighties and 0:03:58.960 --> 0:04:03.560 during that time there weren't a lot of African American 0:04:03.640 --> 0:04:08.920 casting directors in New York and Spike Lee definitely had 0:04:08.920 --> 0:04:16.919 the lockdown on my favorite casting directors and friends, Tracy Runsi, 0:04:18.839 --> 0:04:26.840 Tracy Villar, and Wins Sinclay. Now, I just want to 0:04:27.120 --> 0:04:29.520 give you a little bit of my background for those 0:04:29.560 --> 0:04:30.599 of you who don't know. 0:04:30.600 --> 0:04:37.159 I started in his industry as a casting director, and I. 0:04:39.480 --> 0:04:43.520 Didn't know in nineteen eighty six eighty seven what a 0:04:43.560 --> 0:04:52.440 casting director was. There were no books on casting directors, schools, nothing, 0:04:53.760 --> 0:04:57.000 And I used to go to the Drama Bookshop back 0:04:57.040 --> 0:05:00.880 then when it was on Seventh Ave knew between I 0:05:00.880 --> 0:05:02.760 think it was forty eighth and forty nine Street, but 0:05:02.800 --> 0:05:05.719 I used to live there, Oh my god, my favorite place. 0:05:06.520 --> 0:05:08.440 And there were no books there. 0:05:08.560 --> 0:05:10.840 And no one had any information on how to become 0:05:10.880 --> 0:05:16.000 a casting director. So I met these casting directors in 0:05:16.080 --> 0:05:21.120 Brooklyn that were working with Spike Lee. Robbie Reid was 0:05:21.480 --> 0:05:28.520 the casting director at that time and she had working 0:05:29.240 --> 0:05:35.320 with her Tracy Vallar, Tracy Rumsey, and Winsimson Player. 0:05:37.080 --> 0:05:41.640 And I remember one of the things that I learned 0:05:41.760 --> 0:05:42.640 very early. 0:05:42.360 --> 0:05:45.320 In my casting career that no one taught me was 0:05:45.600 --> 0:05:48.320 you know, never like go in somebody else's lane. If 0:05:48.320 --> 0:05:51.960 there's a casting director that works with the specific director, 0:05:52.480 --> 0:05:55.200 you don't want to send your resume, you know, to 0:05:55.240 --> 0:05:58.000 the production manager or the director or the producer, because 0:05:58.040 --> 0:06:02.240 someone's there and you expect them, right. So I was 0:06:02.360 --> 0:06:05.360 very young in my career, but Robbie Reid was at 0:06:05.560 --> 0:06:08.680 forty eight years and a mule with Spike Lee. But 0:06:08.800 --> 0:06:15.760 I would call to ask about like I started out 0:06:15.920 --> 0:06:20.159 as most casting directors as an extras casting director, which 0:06:20.240 --> 0:06:24.040 means that you'd cast all the background in the scenes 0:06:24.200 --> 0:06:25.520 in TV and film. 0:06:26.760 --> 0:06:29.480 Commercials as well. And so. 0:06:32.320 --> 0:06:37.559 Spike had a lot of extras, and specifically in Jungle Fever, 0:06:38.160 --> 0:06:41.440 he had a lot, a lot of extras in this 0:06:41.560 --> 0:06:43.760 one big I think it was. 0:06:43.680 --> 0:06:44.880 A crack house scene. 0:06:45.760 --> 0:06:52.039 And at that time, I would call and ask to 0:06:52.080 --> 0:06:55.359 see if I could subcontract. And what that means is 0:06:55.360 --> 0:06:57.760 that I would see if, like maybe Robbie would hire 0:06:57.800 --> 0:07:02.440 me to bring in like, let's say, fifty actors out 0:07:02.440 --> 0:07:03.560 of three hundred. 0:07:03.720 --> 0:07:06.000 You know, just to start a relationship. 0:07:06.120 --> 0:07:08.160 And if I had to do it for free, I 0:07:08.200 --> 0:07:11.720 would do it for free, but to start the relationship, right, 0:07:12.840 --> 0:07:16.120 So Robbie ended up calling me and asking me to, 0:07:16.800 --> 0:07:19.680 you know, past some backgrounds and some background actors. 0:07:19.760 --> 0:07:22.360 And I was so excited to do that. 0:07:22.920 --> 0:07:26.680 And that's when I worked with casting director Winsome Sinclair. 0:07:28.000 --> 0:07:29.320 And Winsome was. 0:07:29.320 --> 0:07:35.320 So she, oh my god, like very strong, very confident. 0:07:37.200 --> 0:07:40.440 I felt very comfortable knowing that, you know, she knew 0:07:40.480 --> 0:07:44.400 what she was doing. And I learned a lot from 0:07:44.440 --> 0:07:51.760 Winsome and over the years, I started working with Winsome 0:07:53.080 --> 0:07:58.320 becoming friends. You know, we all do panels and film festivals. 0:08:00.640 --> 0:08:04.040 We actually wrote a book with our dear friend, doctor 0:08:04.560 --> 0:08:08.520 Joyce Berkshire, who's also been on the podcast, and it's 0:08:08.560 --> 0:08:12.200 called Women Behind Mic And whenso wrote a chapter, I 0:08:12.240 --> 0:08:14.960 wrote a chapter, and I recently spoke to her. It 0:08:15.040 --> 0:08:18.320 was like March. It was very cold, I remember that, 0:08:19.520 --> 0:08:22.560 and we weren't There was a big event that they 0:08:22.560 --> 0:08:27.240 were happening for the book at the Apollo Theater and 0:08:27.400 --> 0:08:31.560 Whins wasn't coming, and I wasn't going either. So I 0:08:31.680 --> 0:08:33.600 called her up to just let her know I wasn't 0:08:33.640 --> 0:08:38.240 going either because it was cold. And you know, some 0:08:38.280 --> 0:08:41.200 of you know I had this alleged arthritis and sometimes 0:08:41.240 --> 0:08:43.240 it acts up. In that day it was acting up, 0:08:43.280 --> 0:08:45.160 so I knew I wasn't going to get to Harlem. 0:08:47.679 --> 0:08:52.520 I remember the takeaway like when I hung up, was like, 0:08:53.520 --> 0:08:57.160 I just because she lives in Atlanta, I don't like 0:08:57.240 --> 0:09:00.439 the fact that a lot of my friends can unity 0:09:00.600 --> 0:09:06.800 my sisterhood. We're all moving apart away Twinkies in the Carolines. 0:09:07.679 --> 0:09:12.040 So it's like you just when you get that time 0:09:12.880 --> 0:09:15.880 for real, for real, to tell people that you love them. 0:09:17.360 --> 0:09:21.080 And just let them know that, like it's a charge, 0:09:21.240 --> 0:09:22.520 just a life charge. 0:09:23.360 --> 0:09:27.680 And I felt like Whins knew how. 0:09:27.520 --> 0:09:32.559 I felt about her. And oh my god, the other thing. 0:09:32.679 --> 0:09:35.960 She had these great parties, you guys, great parties at 0:09:35.960 --> 0:09:42.880 her house and queens during the summer. Oh it was 0:09:42.920 --> 0:09:46.960 just so much fun. But I am sharing all these 0:09:47.000 --> 0:09:50.720 memories and moments with you because unfortunately we lost Whins 0:09:50.920 --> 0:09:53.120 Sinclair casting. 0:09:52.760 --> 0:09:59.760 Director, producer extraordinaire, giant Empress this week and a lot 0:09:59.760 --> 0:10:06.160 of the I started reflecting. A lot of us all 0:10:06.200 --> 0:10:10.959 came up together at the same time, and a lot 0:10:11.000 --> 0:10:14.800 of people today are standing on our shoulders. And I 0:10:14.840 --> 0:10:17.559 love the fact that whensome myself, Twinkie. We are all 0:10:17.679 --> 0:10:25.000 giver backers, and that means that if someone was interested 0:10:25.040 --> 0:10:28.800 in learning how to cast, we pass on that information. 0:10:29.040 --> 0:10:31.920 I was very blessed to train Twinkie. Twinky has gone 0:10:31.960 --> 0:10:38.080 on to work with others Leslie and Green, so we're 0:10:38.120 --> 0:10:41.760 a community, we are a sister and it is just 0:10:41.800 --> 0:10:47.400 such a very sad time. At the same time, I 0:10:47.520 --> 0:10:50.880 just felt like I want to continue to say her name. 0:10:50.920 --> 0:10:54.080 I want to continue to tell stories because that's what 0:10:54.360 --> 0:10:58.240 keeps giants alive and their spirits. 0:10:58.400 --> 0:10:58.959 A lot. 0:11:01.280 --> 0:11:05.920 Just a beautiful human being, beautiful human being with two sons, 0:11:06.240 --> 0:11:13.000 small sons, and I just want to send out love 0:11:13.440 --> 0:11:22.440 and light and angel angel wings to her family and 0:11:22.480 --> 0:11:25.240 her friends who everyone. 0:11:26.000 --> 0:11:28.320 You know, we're all talking to each other and just 0:11:29.000 --> 0:11:33.000 you know, talking about our moments and sharing our moments 0:11:33.559 --> 0:11:37.640 because it makes your heart feel good, you know, just 0:11:38.679 --> 0:11:42.439 it sues the soul for a man. 0:11:44.360 --> 0:11:51.080 So today's show is dedicated to my friend, my sister 0:11:51.559 --> 0:11:59.800 win some sing player, and I also want to share 0:12:00.080 --> 0:12:02.360 a very special show that we're going to be working 0:12:02.400 --> 0:12:04.120 on for Winson. 0:12:06.200 --> 0:12:11.120 So that's where I started casting. 0:12:12.160 --> 0:12:19.240 And in learning a lot of lessons because no one really, 0:12:20.120 --> 0:12:25.000 you know, taught me all the protocol, all the roots. 0:12:25.480 --> 0:12:27.280 You know, some things you do have to learn on 0:12:27.320 --> 0:12:27.760 your own. 0:12:28.640 --> 0:12:31.600 I wouldn't change anything about that experience or that journey 0:12:31.600 --> 0:12:37.840 because I did. A lot was poured into me, and 0:12:37.880 --> 0:12:40.560 I pour a lot into others as well, so it 0:12:40.640 --> 0:12:41.800 becomes a full circle. 0:12:43.679 --> 0:12:46.439 So I take casting very seriously. 0:12:48.160 --> 0:12:52.400 I am so grateful that I have something inside of 0:12:52.440 --> 0:12:55.840 me that is not challenged when. 0:13:00.360 --> 0:13:03.920 I have to. Well, back in the live time, we're 0:13:03.920 --> 0:13:07.719 not live as much, but when I started casting, we 0:13:07.720 --> 0:13:14.200 were one hundred percent live and then being live. You know, 0:13:14.400 --> 0:13:16.760 it's a different energy. You know, it's a lot of 0:13:16.840 --> 0:13:18.440 movement and things like that. 0:13:19.160 --> 0:13:22.880 I missed live because it's also a direct connection with 0:13:23.040 --> 0:13:26.840 the actors as well and a little more personal. 0:13:27.120 --> 0:13:28.960 Right, But we have to get that from Zoom because 0:13:28.960 --> 0:13:35.240 that's where we are today. So today I wanted to 0:13:35.240 --> 0:13:36.320 have a conversation with. 0:13:36.240 --> 0:13:41.520 You guys, because this business changes all the time. But 0:13:41.640 --> 0:13:44.839 there's a change that's happening that I thought was a 0:13:44.920 --> 0:13:48.960 glitch in the system. And then I started getting other 0:13:49.040 --> 0:13:51.800 submissions like this, and I said, whoa, whoa, whoa, whah, whoa. 0:13:51.880 --> 0:13:53.080 I need to speak to you yet. 0:13:53.400 --> 0:14:01.760 Right then I called, I called. 0:14:02.800 --> 0:14:11.600 Twinkie Bird, and I said, twinky Bird, I'm helping out 0:14:11.600 --> 0:14:16.520 a friend of mine, excuse me, actually a friend of ours, 0:14:16.559 --> 0:14:20.200 and I have some spirited actors that are auditioning and submitting, 0:14:20.480 --> 0:14:22.560 and have you come across this issue? 0:14:22.760 --> 0:14:23.520 Right? 0:14:23.600 --> 0:14:25.480 And the issue that I was speaking to her about 0:14:26.040 --> 0:14:30.960 was the fact that actors. Someone has said something has 0:14:31.000 --> 0:14:32.680 happened on TikTok online. 0:14:32.800 --> 0:14:36.680 Ig. I don't know what has happened, but something is 0:14:36.760 --> 0:14:43.400 happening where actors are submitting without a reader. I want 0:14:43.440 --> 0:14:46.120 to say that again, because I want to be very clear. 0:14:47.200 --> 0:14:53.840 Actors are submitting auditions without a reader. 0:14:54.200 --> 0:14:57.000 So what does that look like for a casting director? 0:14:57.520 --> 0:15:02.280 Okay, it looks like you are looking into the camera 0:15:02.840 --> 0:15:06.880 reacting from Oh, this is what I was going to 0:15:06.960 --> 0:15:09.000 tell you. I apologize. I want to come back to this. 0:15:09.160 --> 0:15:11.240 I was going to say, I'm very grateful. 0:15:12.280 --> 0:15:15.400 For the fact that something is instilled in me where 0:15:15.440 --> 0:15:20.600 I can watch auditions the same lines over and over 0:15:20.640 --> 0:15:22.640 and over and over again. I don't get bored, I 0:15:22.680 --> 0:15:25.280 don't get frustrated or challenge. 0:15:25.680 --> 0:15:28.680 I just remember from day one of casting that I 0:15:28.720 --> 0:15:31.440 said to myself, the next one, the next one. 0:15:31.520 --> 0:15:34.200 So I'm always looking for the next one to come 0:15:34.240 --> 0:15:37.560 into that room and live and blow me away. And 0:15:37.640 --> 0:15:39.240 now on zoom blow me away. 0:15:39.600 --> 0:15:41.400 Okay, So I just wanted to say that, all right, 0:15:41.440 --> 0:15:44.960 So I'm going back to the zoom. So what we 0:15:45.040 --> 0:15:48.880 see as a casting directors, we see you reacting and 0:15:48.960 --> 0:15:53.520 even though I know the lines, I'm still expecting to 0:15:53.600 --> 0:15:56.520 hear them so that I can see your reaction. Because 0:15:56.560 --> 0:16:00.760 your reaction is so on it's not authentic to me 0:16:01.120 --> 0:16:05.360 because no one's talking. Like absolutely, I saw seven tapes 0:16:05.680 --> 0:16:06.360 nobody was. 0:16:06.360 --> 0:16:09.440 Talking the actors were sitting in a chair and just 0:16:09.520 --> 0:16:10.800 reacting and listening. 0:16:12.000 --> 0:16:14.600 I don't even know how to describe to you, guys 0:16:14.640 --> 0:16:20.480 what that looked like, but it was absolutely positively no, No, 0:16:20.920 --> 0:16:22.120 don't ever do that. 0:16:22.280 --> 0:16:26.240 Don't ever not not have a reader. It makes no sense. 0:16:27.120 --> 0:16:32.440 And you are actually not giving me anything of what 0:16:32.520 --> 0:16:35.960 I need, right, So as a casting director, I need 0:16:36.000 --> 0:16:39.760 to see some sort of and it's zoom. We have 0:16:40.000 --> 0:16:43.040 verbal right, because it's not like we do a wide 0:16:43.040 --> 0:16:45.360 shot and catch the two of you in the scene. 0:16:45.880 --> 0:16:52.680 It's just you isolate. Right. So I'm listening to the lines. 0:16:52.720 --> 0:16:57.200 I'm seeing you react authentically to what is being said 0:16:57.240 --> 0:17:02.320 to you. I'm seeing versatility. This is what I want 0:17:02.360 --> 0:17:06.600 to see. But this is what i'm seeing, right, I'm 0:17:06.600 --> 0:17:08.720 not seeing that when you don't have a reader. I'm 0:17:08.760 --> 0:17:12.520 seeing you in your head thinking about the lines, when 0:17:12.600 --> 0:17:18.320 to react. It's a lot, it's too much. It's very distracting. Please, actors, do. 0:17:18.359 --> 0:17:21.439 Me a favor. There may be some short cuts. 0:17:21.760 --> 0:17:30.960 There may be, but I'm really imploring you to not 0:17:31.119 --> 0:17:36.040 take them. It's not helping your auditions. And I'm going 0:17:36.119 --> 0:17:36.680 to be so. 0:17:36.720 --> 0:17:40.119 Honest with you guys, because this just happened this week 0:17:43.640 --> 0:17:48.720 when actors. When I got the clue that actors were 0:17:48.760 --> 0:17:54.120 doing their auditions without a reader, I probably gave them 0:17:54.240 --> 0:18:00.679 fifteen to twenty seconds right when all they did not 0:18:00.800 --> 0:18:06.280 have a reader. My attention was so distracted. It was 0:18:06.600 --> 0:18:09.400 I am in your head, I hear your thoughts, I 0:18:09.480 --> 0:18:14.400 see your actions, and you are not giving me the character. 0:18:15.280 --> 0:18:18.520 And you're also giving me characters. 0:18:17.920 --> 0:18:20.879 Because now you're now you have to know or at 0:18:20.960 --> 0:18:25.120 least kind of know the reader's lines so that. 0:18:25.160 --> 0:18:28.560 You can react from it. It's so annoying. This has 0:18:28.600 --> 0:18:30.040 got to stop. This has got to. 0:18:30.040 --> 0:18:33.760 Stop you guys, this is this is not good. You 0:18:33.880 --> 0:18:40.480 must you must have a reader when you audition unless 0:18:42.320 --> 0:18:45.639 and I've never seen this, but unless a casting director 0:18:45.680 --> 0:18:47.159 puts in breakdown. 0:18:46.760 --> 0:18:50.119 Do not have a reader. You have to have a reader. 0:18:52.720 --> 0:19:01.639 I cannot emphasize this enough. You. Your audition is about you. 0:19:03.200 --> 0:19:06.240 It's about you. As a casting. 0:19:05.840 --> 0:19:11.520 Director, I am being paid a salary to at first, 0:19:11.680 --> 0:19:15.280 in the beginning, do a pre screening of the talent 0:19:16.000 --> 0:19:20.200 that I would recommend to the director and the producers 0:19:20.880 --> 0:19:26.000 I think are the top choices in what the director 0:19:26.400 --> 0:19:27.000 is looking for. 0:19:28.440 --> 0:19:35.080 Right in zoom we go through a lot of tape. 0:19:35.119 --> 0:19:38.359 You guys a lot, a lot, a lot of teams. 0:19:42.080 --> 0:19:45.160 I just have to call out so many things because 0:19:45.600 --> 0:19:51.280 it wasn't like this audition was in the breakdown service 0:19:52.000 --> 0:19:57.760 like we ELSA and I know enough actors that you know. Literally, 0:19:57.880 --> 0:20:00.399 I have a rolodex in my fourth rent of my 0:20:00.440 --> 0:20:05.840 brain of actors and pictures and resumes are constantly flowing 0:20:05.880 --> 0:20:11.680 through them, so we know actors. That's not the issue. 0:20:13.359 --> 0:20:17.120 My challenge in the last couple of days and looking 0:20:17.160 --> 0:20:23.000 at tapes has been one when you say you're an actor, 0:20:23.119 --> 0:20:25.280 you want to be an actor, you're training to be 0:20:25.359 --> 0:20:30.560 an actor. My expectations are that you are also inclusive 0:20:30.600 --> 0:20:34.840 of what means to be a trained, working actor. You're 0:20:34.880 --> 0:20:39.880 also handling your business. I saw a tape today. I'm 0:20:39.880 --> 0:20:43.280 gonna be honest. I'm to be honest because I'm telling 0:20:43.320 --> 0:20:46.439 you all the truth. I saw a tape this morning. 0:20:48.040 --> 0:20:52.919 This actor was sitting in it looked. 0:20:52.680 --> 0:21:00.439 Like an antique chair, like a mahogany chair. Pulled the 0:21:00.520 --> 0:21:00.959 chair up. 0:21:01.000 --> 0:21:04.120 He was in front of the dresser that had a mirror, 0:21:04.680 --> 0:21:06.639 and then in the back it looked like it was 0:21:06.680 --> 0:21:13.159 like a blue couch situation and blankets and pillows, and 0:21:13.200 --> 0:21:14.760 then there was an end table. 0:21:14.480 --> 0:21:18.560 That had some stuff on it in paper. You guys, seriously, 0:21:20.080 --> 0:21:22.160 do not waste casting director's time. 0:21:24.080 --> 0:21:27.520 What job have you ever in your life applied for 0:21:27.840 --> 0:21:30.879 that you did not have the information about the corporation? 0:21:31.320 --> 0:21:35.119 You didn't have information about the job titled. 0:21:34.560 --> 0:21:40.440 The role, the protocol you went to school for it. 0:21:40.440 --> 0:21:43.679 It's something about acting that people just like, I just know, 0:21:47.440 --> 0:21:48.639 I don't need to take the glass. 0:21:48.680 --> 0:21:50.960 I don't need to know the protocol. I don't need 0:21:51.040 --> 0:21:51.400 to know. 0:21:53.000 --> 0:21:56.560 Tools, things that I need to bring along to the party. 0:21:56.760 --> 0:22:04.479 Nothing acting, I just know. Well, you do any need 0:22:04.560 --> 0:22:07.880 to trip, any need to know? You need to invest 0:22:08.000 --> 0:22:14.000 in a blue gray green screen so that I don't 0:22:14.040 --> 0:22:18.760 see everything in your back ring. You need to make 0:22:18.800 --> 0:22:24.199 sure your sound. The worst thing is the sound. You 0:22:24.240 --> 0:22:29.600 need to make sure your sound is gray. And most auditions, 0:22:29.600 --> 0:22:33.159 I would say ninety nine percent of auditions you're standing. 0:22:33.720 --> 0:22:40.680 You're standing, So unless it's specifically. 0:22:40.680 --> 0:22:47.160 Asked for, you are standing, and you don't You don't 0:22:47.200 --> 0:22:49.600 need a table in front of you or a desk. 0:22:49.440 --> 0:22:55.639 Or anything like that. Okay, these are all in the 0:22:55.720 --> 0:22:58.080 last couple of days. These are videos that I have 0:22:58.200 --> 0:23:07.240 seen from actors, and my expectation is so hot because 0:23:07.280 --> 0:23:13.840 I do teach and I train, and this is the 0:23:13.920 --> 0:23:16.320 other thing to you guys, you have to work on this. 0:23:16.400 --> 0:23:20.040 I can't tell you. I can't stress it enough. You 0:23:20.160 --> 0:23:22.000 have to work on your comprehension. 0:23:22.359 --> 0:23:26.119 You have to work on the ability to read sides 0:23:27.240 --> 0:23:30.440 pages of a script, sides, not slides. 0:23:31.760 --> 0:23:38.880 As an actress told me yesterday, read the sides. Okay. 0:23:40.640 --> 0:23:42.960 After you read the sides, you have to be able 0:23:43.000 --> 0:23:46.760 to comprehend, to understand what you read, so you could 0:23:46.800 --> 0:23:50.399 have a conversation with yourself or someone else to just 0:23:50.920 --> 0:23:56.720 get all this stuff out right. You're purging, right, You're like, oh, okay, 0:23:56.760 --> 0:24:00.720 So I see she's not happy in her man marriage, 0:24:00.840 --> 0:24:03.639 and she's frustrated because she thinks her husband's having an affair. 0:24:03.920 --> 0:24:06.479 But he's not having an affair because in the scene 0:24:06.560 --> 0:24:10.840 here before my scene that was sharpeyed out, I looked 0:24:10.960 --> 0:24:14.399 under the sharpie and read everything and saw he was 0:24:14.440 --> 0:24:16.480 talking to his friends saying, she's. 0:24:16.280 --> 0:24:18.120 Accused of me of having an affair, and I'm not 0:24:18.320 --> 0:24:19.160 having an affair. 0:24:21.240 --> 0:24:28.280 So you start talking stuff through reading everything inclusive of 0:24:28.320 --> 0:24:31.760 the action. This is another thing too, someone's out here saying. 0:24:31.520 --> 0:24:35.320 Don't read the action, just read the dialogue. That's wrong, 0:24:35.680 --> 0:24:36.720 that's absolutely wrong. 0:24:36.920 --> 0:24:41.479 That's wrong because action can give you insight into how 0:24:41.920 --> 0:24:44.920 to deliver a line, because they may say the reaction 0:24:46.400 --> 0:24:48.240 she fell to the foe and sobbed. 0:24:48.520 --> 0:24:51.040 Okay, well you have to say that line in a 0:24:51.040 --> 0:24:53.959 way that she's going to fall to the floor and sob. 0:24:54.240 --> 0:24:59.640 But you have to read the action. There are no 0:24:59.720 --> 0:25:06.200 short cuts. You will be shortchanged. Do the work. What 0:25:06.480 --> 0:25:08.760 job do you go to? And you know nothing? 0:25:08.840 --> 0:25:10.720 But you cool? You cool. 0:25:13.440 --> 0:25:19.080 You will always have a level of nervousness. Always that 0:25:19.200 --> 0:25:23.560 you want to be able to control the nervousness. 0:25:23.960 --> 0:25:27.199 Talk to the nervousness, Tell the nervousness. 0:25:26.640 --> 0:25:32.560 To chill for a second. Come along, nervousness. It's always 0:25:32.640 --> 0:25:36.480 going to be there. But when you are secure in 0:25:36.840 --> 0:25:43.520 what you know, don't matter. When you know that you 0:25:43.560 --> 0:25:45.320 know that, you know that, you know that, you know 0:25:45.520 --> 0:25:53.560 you know, there's a there's a confidence, there's a swag 0:25:53.640 --> 0:25:54.399 that goes with that. 0:25:56.640 --> 0:25:59.840 Know what you know. Train you're not able to train. 0:26:00.320 --> 0:26:01.960 Get a book. Read a book. 0:26:03.560 --> 0:26:06.719 That's a part of the comprehension too. Get books on acting. 0:26:06.840 --> 0:26:10.280 Read and then comprehend. Talk to yourself, Talk to you 0:26:10.359 --> 0:26:13.160 fellow Thespians, about this great book I read about acting. 0:26:13.240 --> 0:26:15.840 It talked about this and this and substitution and all 0:26:15.880 --> 0:26:16.640 of these things. 0:26:16.920 --> 0:26:17.440 One of them. 0:26:17.480 --> 0:26:20.600 You can read my book Spirited Actor Principles for a 0:26:20.640 --> 0:26:21.680 Successful Audition. 0:26:22.560 --> 0:26:23.840 By treating more. 0:26:23.680 --> 0:26:30.760 On Amazon and authorss dot com, you can do something, 0:26:31.520 --> 0:26:40.200 and especially in twenty twenty four online TikTok YouTube. 0:26:40.840 --> 0:26:46.840 Do your due diligence on who you're training with. You 0:26:47.000 --> 0:26:47.399 have to. 0:26:49.880 --> 0:26:54.040 You want to work with someone who is current, who 0:26:54.080 --> 0:26:57.760 is relevant, who knows all the changes and the movement 0:26:57.880 --> 0:26:59.880 in this industry. 0:27:00.080 --> 0:27:03.840 You know there are a lot of people at different. 0:27:05.240 --> 0:27:10.680 Schools that have not worked in years and their teaching 0:27:10.800 --> 0:27:13.439 and it's great as long as you stay current and 0:27:13.480 --> 0:27:17.760 relevant to We're not doing live auditions anymore now we 0:27:17.920 --> 0:27:19.080 transition to zoom. 0:27:20.000 --> 0:27:23.639 All of those things. Do your due diligence. 0:27:23.240 --> 0:27:26.040 On the people that you work with, because this is 0:27:26.080 --> 0:27:29.080 the other thing too. When I started The Spirited Actor, 0:27:29.800 --> 0:27:34.080 and I didn't have a title for my company, my classes, 0:27:34.119 --> 0:27:38.560 and I was just trying to figure out something that 0:27:38.640 --> 0:27:44.760 felt warm and because cozy and fuzzy and also made 0:27:44.800 --> 0:27:48.320 you feel good about yourself, yourself, like you, not the 0:27:48.440 --> 0:27:52.320 character you right, And what the spirited actor represented to 0:27:52.400 --> 0:27:57.679 me was so many things. The patient actor, the challenge actor, 0:27:57.720 --> 0:28:03.640