Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to the Spirited Actor Podcast with me
Speaker 1: Tracy Moore. I was a casting director for film and
Speaker 1: TV and commercials for over thirty years. I transitioned to
Speaker 1: a celebrity acting coach after I cast a film New
Speaker 1: Jersey Drive with executive producers Spike Lee and director Nick Domez.
Speaker 1: I auditioned every rapper from biggiees Balls to Tupac, and
Speaker 1: I realized that rappers and musical artists they needed help
Speaker 1: transitioning to acting. My clients consist of musical artists from
Speaker 1: Buster Rhymes to Eve, Missy Elliott, Angela Yee from The
Speaker 1: Breakfast Club, and Vanessa Simmons to name a few. I
Speaker 1: also coach sports stars and host as well. I feel
Speaker 1: I have the best of both worlds. As a casting director,
Speaker 1: I know exactly what they're looking for, and as an
Speaker 1: acting coach, I can coach you to be remembered in
Speaker 1: that room. Now I know, I know actors want to
Speaker 1: get the job. I get that, but being remembered by
Speaker 1: casting director that is powerful. And now it's time for
Speaker 1: meditation of the day. Failure is lack of preparation, anonymous actors.
Speaker 1: If you are not studying, if you are not training.
Speaker 1: If you simply think that all you need to do
Speaker 1: is memorize lines and make a couple of facial reactions
Speaker 1: here and there, you are not taking this business seriously.
Speaker 1: And yes, it is a business. It's called show business,
Speaker 1: not show art, not show craft. It is called show business,
Speaker 1: and you must respect the business. The number one part
Speaker 1: of your business is training. What job do you do?
Speaker 1: And you have no preparation or knowledge of anything but
Speaker 1: just showing up and memorizing lines. That is not what
Speaker 1: an actor is. An actor has to do research. An
Speaker 1: actor needs to do their due diligence on characters because
Speaker 1: there are experiences that you don't have that your character does.
Speaker 1: And training is going to teach you how to apply that,
Speaker 1: how to look for things that If you don't smoke cigarettes,
Speaker 1: I'm not asking you to go out and buy a
Speaker 1: pack of new Ports. I'm saying you need to know
Speaker 1: the experience of smoking. You need to look authentic if
Speaker 1: you have to do a puff on screen. It's not easy,
Speaker 1: it is not simple. It's very complicated. Sometimes you're an
Speaker 1: emotional rollercoaster. But if you are approaching this business as
Speaker 1: a true actor, then do the work. There are no
Speaker 1: shortcuts you will be shortchanged today. I will apply myself
Speaker 1: and do the work of an actor. Before we get started,
Speaker 1: I like to remind everyone to go to Crackle Network
Speaker 1: to view seasons one and two of my show Inside
Speaker 1: the Black Box that I co host with the great
Speaker 1: Emmy Award winning Joe Morton. Look out for news on
Speaker 1: season three soon. Welcome to the Spirited at your podcast
Speaker 1: with me Tracy Moore, and you are blessed to have
Speaker 1: Part two.
Speaker 2: We promised you Part two with Rayon Lewis Lawrence.
Speaker 1: I apologize Rayon Lawrence is here and I am beyond
Speaker 1: thrilled you guys. I can't wait for this conversation. I've
Speaker 1: been geared up. I was stretched this board at Rayon.
Speaker 3: Just so you know, both of us both what.
Speaker 1: Please put your hands together and stand up for Rayon
Speaker 1: Laura Part two. Brother, Thank you so much for coming back.
Speaker 3: Oh thank you for having me back. I really really
Speaker 3: excited to be back. And you know, share this knowledge well.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you the last knowledge in Part two
Speaker 1: was very very well received and everyone we.
Speaker 2: Had some really beautiful numbers which was.
Speaker 1: Really great and shares, so thank you, so I know
Speaker 1: this is gonna be even more increased.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna just.
Speaker 1: Jump in it. I'm gonna jump in it. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: jump because I want all of your knowledge. I want
Speaker 1: you to talk your aspiring actors. Yes, people that think
Speaker 1: they want to be actors and working actors.
Speaker 3: There you go. I love it, I love Okay.
Speaker 2: So this is my scenario.
Speaker 1: So I was really blessed to go to Atlanta last
Speaker 1: Wednesday to work on a lifetime movie with one of
Speaker 1: my clients. Right, And I love actors. You know that,
Speaker 1: the audience knows that. However, you must with a capital
Speaker 1: M twenty four point bold train if you are not training,
Speaker 1: you play games, rayon.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna give you this situation, and you could just go.
Speaker 1: One particular day, we were on the set shooting a scene.
Speaker 2: It was my client with another.
Speaker 1: Actor okay, and the actor was I would say, a
Speaker 1: working actor but not yet known, right. So the first
Speaker 1: take was awful. I'm being one hundred percent honest with you.
Speaker 4: It was awful.
Speaker 1: However, I just felt like something was going on with
Speaker 1: this actor, right. So I went up to the actor
Speaker 1: and I was like, how you doing right, how's everything
Speaker 1: going on? And they were like, oh, you know, I'm
Speaker 1: on the set with your client, and they were a
Speaker 1: fan at that moment like, oh my god, I can't
Speaker 1: believe I'm working with them, Oh my god. And I
Speaker 1: let her speak and then I stopped and I said,
Speaker 1: snap out of it, seriously, snap out of it. You're
Speaker 1: on the set with my client too. It's only two
Speaker 1: people in the scene. You And then don't you want
Speaker 1: your performance to be of par don't you want somebody
Speaker 1: like myself, a castie director, to see this and say, well.
Speaker 3: Who is this right?
Speaker 1: Because right now I don't even see you. I see her,
Speaker 1: and that's not good. And my job is not only
Speaker 1: to see my client, but to see whatever is around
Speaker 1: them as well, to enhance whatever and blessed. In most cases,
Speaker 1: directors are receptive of me. But sometimes directors get a
Speaker 1: little interesting because I'm not there to direct my clients.
Speaker 2: I'm there to interpret.
Speaker 1: I have relationships with my clients buster being twenty eight
Speaker 1: years that I can give something him right away after
Speaker 1: the director makes the adjustment, and he'll make that adjustment.
Speaker 1: Most of the time my clients meet the director if
Speaker 1: they have rehearsal or on the set, you know, working
Speaker 1: with them that day.
Speaker 2: So I've.
Speaker 1: I just made some adjustments to this actor, and every
Speaker 1: time there was a cut, I would go to my
Speaker 1: client first and then on my way over to Video Village,
Speaker 1: I would take that actor, tug their coattail and say actively,
Speaker 1: actively listen. You can't listen for your queue line. You
Speaker 1: got to listen to the whole conversation prior to that
Speaker 1: and engage. Right. I have to say at the last take,
Speaker 1: everybody in Video Village clamped.
Speaker 2: They turned that performance around. I also noticed.
Speaker 1: That they sat on their trailer state set steps when
Speaker 1: we came in. Our call times were usually it was
Speaker 1: night hues painful, I know, you know, three pm, three am,
Speaker 1: four pm, four am. We got home at We got
Speaker 1: home at four am, slept for an hour, went to
Speaker 1: straight to the airport.
Speaker 4: Home yesterday.
Speaker 2: So sitting on your trailer, going over.
Speaker 1: Your lives, going literally going over your lines, almost as
Speaker 1: if there's the first time you've seen them.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, And.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you at the end, which is the full
Speaker 1: circle that I thought was beautiful at the end, But
Speaker 1: I what if I wasn't there?
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 1: So can you.
Speaker 2: Talk to these actors?
Speaker 1: First of all, I in my experience, everybody and their
Speaker 1: mother wants to be an actor.
Speaker 5: Yes.
Speaker 1: However, those who choose it choose the training because I
Speaker 1: don't know what kind of job you're going to go to.
Speaker 1: It know nothing, and they be like, okay, I'm ready
Speaker 1: to work.
Speaker 3: What exactly?
Speaker 2: Please help me?
Speaker 1: Rayon?
Speaker 4: Please?
Speaker 2: I almost started drinking in Atlanta.
Speaker 3: Listen, I got. I got the perfect examples of you
Speaker 3: know why coaching is so important. I can even even
Speaker 3: I could even take back to the time that I
Speaker 3: didn't do coaching for one specific role and where I
Speaker 3: was like, why not I do coaching? You know what
Speaker 3: I mean? Because sometimes you like, I don't want to
Speaker 3: spend this money. I think I can get away with it,
Speaker 3: and it's like, bro, you know what I mean? All right?
Speaker 3: So I did this project was FBI booked, FBI booked FBI.
Speaker 3: So everybody knows, I guess on a local hire, right,
Speaker 3: So your local higher.
Speaker 1: Well, let's slow down because you know, you know, maybe not,
Speaker 1: so can you give it.
Speaker 3: Let's spend definitely, So if you're a local high let's
Speaker 3: all right. So for example, I live in LA right now.
Speaker 3: So if they want to hire me in New York
Speaker 3: and I want to sign on as a local hire,
Speaker 3: meaning they're not going to put me up, no hotel,
Speaker 3: no transportation. It's like, hey, this means you're saying that
Speaker 3: you live here in New York. I can get away
Speaker 3: with it. It should be simple anyway. So what happened
Speaker 3: was the time that they needed me in New York,
Speaker 3: they was pushing the dates back. All right, let me
Speaker 3: come to New York. Listen, Tracy. They called me the
Speaker 3: next day, Hey, you shoot the next one. I had
Speaker 3: the book. I had the book, a flight, flight was delayed,
Speaker 3: and mind you, the script changed about four times. So
Speaker 3: I got to New York. I went home, took a shower.
Speaker 3: I was like, let me get an hour hour sleep.
Speaker 3: So I'm studying on a plane going to New York
Speaker 3: to to start shooting. Lines keep changing. I get home,
Speaker 3: I take the shower, take an hour, and I wake up.
Speaker 3: I get on set. Lines changing again. Yeah, Like now
Speaker 3: I'm halusa. I'm like, yo, hom i'ma gonna really, like,
Speaker 3: you know, you know, really perform this if they keep
Speaker 3: changing it. And I had to think about it. It's
Speaker 3: my fault. I should have been there that week of right,
Speaker 3: I should have got trained right for seek And I said, she,
Speaker 3: I can't believe this. I'm nervous. I'm like, I'm working
Speaker 3: with the stars, you know, and the lines keep changing,
Speaker 3: but they hire us. We need to be prepared. I
Speaker 3: should have had the training. I should have been in
Speaker 3: New York prepare because when you're mentally focused, when you
Speaker 3: are able to get that eight to twelve, I like
Speaker 3: to sleep for twelve hours. You we mentally focused. And
Speaker 3: I was so mad at myself that I wasn't there before.
Speaker 3: I didn't get the training or the role. Even though
Speaker 3: the roll was a one day guest start, I still
Speaker 3: should have did the coaching. You know what happening now.
Speaker 3: I was like, I will never make the mistake again.
Speaker 3: Now we go to where where we're talking about, uh BMF.
Speaker 3: When I just did BMF and I started to work
Speaker 3: with Chic and what we started working on where he questions.
Speaker 3: He would ask me, well, why would a black man
Speaker 3: get direct connects with the Columbians And we start I
Speaker 3: have to really break it down looking at stuff from
Speaker 3: YouTube documentaries and stuff like that, and that really elevated
Speaker 3: my performance. And like you're saying, you're gonna be working
Speaker 3: with these people, everybody's gonna be seeing you. You don't
Speaker 3: want to be coming on there and not you know,
Speaker 3: not giving a Stellia the performance and we knew everybody's
Speaker 3: gonna see BMF. I knew this role to breakthrough role,
Speaker 3: and she helped me with that, you know. So those
Speaker 3: are the two differences where it comes where I'm like,
Speaker 3: I could I think I could get away with it.
Speaker 3: It came up. It came up. Mind, I think about
Speaker 3: on FB I came up. But I was like, no,
Speaker 3: I should have been more prepared for you know, because
Speaker 3: you know, editing helped. I think editor will help me.
Speaker 2: In this case too. It's gonna help.
Speaker 1: But I also want to say, Rayon that you know
Speaker 1: the other thing that I said to this actor who
Speaker 1: was working with my client, you're here too.
Speaker 2: What is the thing about you?
Speaker 5: You?
Speaker 1: Ray On, You're on that set too, So what does
Speaker 1: that say about you? Because when we get to that point,
Speaker 1: I don't care about the experience, and I know that
Speaker 1: the relative my client's resume outshines her resume and just
Speaker 1: in terms of work, and it doesn't matter because she's
Speaker 1: on that journey too. And then one day she's going
Speaker 1: to be on the set in somebody and say, oh
Speaker 1: my god, I'm here with blah blah blah, you know.
Speaker 1: And there's another thing that I wanted to comment that
Speaker 1: you said.
Speaker 2: In terms of the script changing. Yes, okay, in my opinion.
Speaker 1: And I wasn't all over Manhattan, but in this community
Speaker 1: that I was in, the actors were not not all,
Speaker 1: but they weren't prepared for the script chain.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I always say, I think of basketball, how you pivot
Speaker 1: on the court.
Speaker 2: You got to pivot with these scripts because what soap.
Speaker 1: Opera you come in after lunch is a whole new
Speaker 1: scene rewritten.
Speaker 3: Oh now what now?
Speaker 5: What? So?
Speaker 6: But the flip side of it is that if you
Speaker 6: don't prepare, you are creating anxiety, stress and mental health is.
Speaker 1: Going to come into play.
Speaker 2: And my question to you, and you may I.
Speaker 1: Mean, because in my opinion, you prepare, you do the work.
Speaker 1: So I'm not talking to you, but I want you
Speaker 1: to talk to them. But what is what else are
Speaker 1: people doing between the time they signed the contract, the
Speaker 1: agent gets the check and then you get those white
Speaker 1: pages which are the pages for net until we start
Speaker 1: inserting the color spectrum. But what else are they doing?
Speaker 1: Because I wasn refused to see actors sitting on their trailers,
Speaker 1: stay at steps, and I knew they were going off
Speaker 1: the lines because they would say their line, then look
Speaker 1: up and then say the other person lines then going
Speaker 1: and I'm like, but their line wasn't see it in.
Speaker 3: Their memory memory right and and see. And that's that's
Speaker 3: the thing. I think a lot of people when they see,
Speaker 3: you know, as actors on TV, they think it's easy
Speaker 3: and it's and it's really not. You know, like you
Speaker 3: just mentioned anxiety. That's what I had on set, Tracy.
Speaker 3: I wanted to I was telling Cheek, I want to
Speaker 3: quit house because I made this mistake and I'm nervous.
Speaker 3: I'm like, you know, it's a big show. This is
Speaker 3: you know, yes, everybody can see this, and I'm not
Speaker 3: you know, I'm not fully focused. You know, I don't
Speaker 3: have the lack of sleep. I didn't get coaching for
Speaker 3: the anxiety came in. And you know now that I
Speaker 3: can see the difference now as you you you you
Speaker 3: grow in your career. Now for exams. I just played
Speaker 3: this character in the nineteen seventies. As soon as I
Speaker 3: booked it. To the music from from the nineteen seventies, I'm
Speaker 3: in Atlanta and I'm playing the music and my boy said,
Speaker 3: why are you listening to that music. I said, bro,
Speaker 3: my character's in the seventies. He said. He looked at
Speaker 3: me and said, that's what I'm talking about. Because now
Speaker 3: I'm focused, that's what my character he'll be jamming boom,
Speaker 3: this is what I'm listening to. You know, you just
Speaker 3: have to start to feel it, you know, when you know.
Speaker 3: And I always go back to BMF because that's the
Speaker 3: time I did the most training and I was just
Speaker 3: locked in.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: It was just it was a time where I'm two
Speaker 3: three months into the character and I'm in Detroit and
Speaker 3: I'm speaking to one of the guys from BMF and
Speaker 3: he found out the characters playing looked at me. He's like,
Speaker 3: I was scared of that dude. So he tells me
Speaker 3: a story. He was like, it was me. It was
Speaker 3: big meets and you know, the character I played. Tells him,
Speaker 3: if anyone you guys don't said how many brooks you
Speaker 3: got two in birds you got five, any one of
Speaker 3: you guys don't have my money on time, I'm gonna
Speaker 3: kill your see tells him. Right my first day on set,
Speaker 3: Mindy didn't hear the story. My first day on set,
Speaker 3: I walked into the gym and I see these five guys,
Speaker 3: I don't know them from the nail on the wall.
Speaker 3: I walk up, I said, anyone, y'all hit this last shot.
Speaker 3: Anyone he have five dudes, hit this last shot. I'm
Speaker 3: killing all five. And I walk away to get to
Speaker 3: get miked. I'm telling you, I was locked in. When
Speaker 3: he tells me the story that he said the exact
Speaker 3: same thing these five dudes, I said, I was locked
Speaker 3: in already and that was the preparation of me and
Speaker 3: she put in. You know, I was like, man, this
Speaker 3: is this is what happens when you when you train
Speaker 3: and you locked in. It's anothering stopping you from.
Speaker 2: The comfort that you have, right like the comfort. So
Speaker 2: when they come in and.
Speaker 1: Bring lines that are changed, there's no anxiety because it's like,
Speaker 1: I already know this.
Speaker 2: I know how to make the adjustments to.
Speaker 3: And you can add you even improfit ad lines to
Speaker 3: a scene like it was one of the scenes I'm
Speaker 3: doing with me. Meach had training too, so me and me,
Speaker 3: you know, had our training going on. He had his
Speaker 3: coach and I had cheek obviously, so the lines, you know,
Speaker 3: I'm sending lines that on the paper, and then at
Speaker 3: the end of the line, I'm just so locked in.
Speaker 3: I said, now go ahead and finish your meal, and
Speaker 3: I finished the scene till next time. I didn't do it.
Speaker 3: I said, let me just go what was on script?
Speaker 3: I said, no, no, keep that line as you said before.
Speaker 3: So already locked into this character. You're't able to add
Speaker 3: lines to it. You can't. You probably can't do it
Speaker 3: on obviously CVS, but on a or streaming service you yeah,
Speaker 3: up to it. Yeah, that's what you locked in.
Speaker 1: And you guys, it's so much about comfort because when
Speaker 1: you don't know how the director directs, you don't know
Speaker 1: how your co stars and other people that you're engaging
Speaker 1: in how they You just want to make sure that
Speaker 1: you are that you are good and be able to
Speaker 1: pivot whatever is necessary. Right, Okay, so I have to
Speaker 1: tap on money, and then I have another So money
Speaker 1: you said about you know, spending. I will admit that
Speaker 1: my services, especially when I am on a set full time,
Speaker 1: they have to buy me out. You know, I created
Speaker 1: I don't know what other acting coaches do. I know
Speaker 1: that I've created a job for myself where I take
Speaker 1: care of my clients. And by that I mean when
Speaker 1: we get to set, I grab your sides. I highlight
Speaker 1: your sides. The first of all, you know, I have
Speaker 1: enough pockets to carry your stuff on set, to carry
Speaker 1: my stuff on set, making sure that there's your refrigerator
Speaker 1: is full, your wardrobe is in your trailer. I go
Speaker 1: to hair and make up with you, run lines, make
Speaker 1: sure you're comfortable, and then once you're set, we run
Speaker 1: lines again. And then when I'm on the set, I
Speaker 1: live in video village. But every time the director calls cut,
Speaker 1: I follow the director, but I stay far enough to hear,
Speaker 1: but give him or her that director's space that I respect.
Speaker 1: And then I either interpret or I give notes. And
Speaker 1: a couple of times I gave some notes that would
Speaker 1: help the scene. But it is an investment. But I
Speaker 1: will say this. One of my clients, we did one
Speaker 1: film and it was like part one in part two, right,
Speaker 1: or a sequel. So the first film we did, they
Speaker 1: got like, let's say, eighty five thousand. We went went
Speaker 1: back for the sequel, they got one point five billion.
Speaker 1: My salary didn't change. But right there you can see
Speaker 1: what value I bought to the table, because obviously they
Speaker 1: kept preat.
Speaker 2: So for me, yes, it's I go.
Speaker 1: And you know, I would say because I've been with
Speaker 1: Buster and Need for so long. They have had the
Speaker 1: law Is experience with me. However, I feel like a caretaker.
Speaker 1: I never sleep like, uh, this is this time. This
Speaker 1: was my first time back on set and about maybe
Speaker 1: since COVID that's I have not been on set. And
Speaker 1: so you know, I have to reacclimate myself, you know,
Speaker 1: going up and down.
Speaker 2: You know it's all standing and you know moving.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: So I say that.
Speaker 1: When you invest in yourself, that investment pays off.
Speaker 3: Yeah it does.
Speaker 2: Your salaries are not going down. Your salaries are going.
Speaker 3: Up, going off. And just to piggyback on that too,
Speaker 3: is you know, coming in into this business, people have
Speaker 3: to understand that there's this you know, you want to
Speaker 3: invest in the coach and you want to invest in Uh,
Speaker 3: you're going to give ten percent to your agent. If
Speaker 3: you haven't manager, you got to give them ten percent.
Speaker 3: I have an agent, ten percent managed, ten percent, lawyer
Speaker 3: five percent got coaching. So you come and you know,
Speaker 3: uncle Sam, if you know, if you're not, if you
Speaker 3: don't have a company LC, they probably come home with
Speaker 3: like twenty five percent check.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the truth ladies and gentlemen, And that's why like
Speaker 1: I mean, Rayon is at a level where you would
Speaker 1: kind of expect him to have an agent and manager,
Speaker 1: and he threw in something that you guys need to
Speaker 1: listen because I deal with a lot of agents who
Speaker 1: have law degrees.
Speaker 2: So blessed.
Speaker 1: However, if not, there is that five percent for a lawyer, guys,
Speaker 1: that's so worth it, so worth it reading those contracts
Speaker 1: and now with AI and stuff, you got to read
Speaker 1: the smaller, smaller prince.
Speaker 3: So actually one of the things that help, especially with
Speaker 3: the lawyers, is that remember the lawyers could my lawyers
Speaker 3: a less lawyers, so they also would represent one of
Speaker 3: the producers, right, the executive, So you probably know how
Speaker 3: much of a budget this project has, so you really
Speaker 3: know how much you can really ask for. The manager
Speaker 3: manages your career and the agent be the one to
Speaker 3: really submits you, but you also had that manager that
Speaker 3: will submit you. At the same time, they're gonna help
Speaker 3: manage your career and give you the right guidance, you know.
Speaker 3: Like even for example, we can even go to what
Speaker 3: Taraju was saying where when she did Empire, she had
Speaker 3: to fight a whole team. She's like, I just did
Speaker 3: my thing of empire. Y'all got nothing. Y'all got nothing
Speaker 3: from me. Sometimes you got to know when to move
Speaker 3: on past your team as well, because they haven't capitalized
Speaker 3: on what you brought, and you got to know where
Speaker 3: you're at in the business as Well's the same thing.
Speaker 3: I just did a movie out here a couple of
Speaker 3: months ago. I, you know, released my team as well
Speaker 3: because I've had a big Hey, I did my thing
Speaker 3: on BMF and I'm not saying BMF is the biggest
Speaker 3: thing in the world, but from what I did on that,
Speaker 3: we need to be at another level and I don't
Speaker 3: think you guys have done that. So I had to.
Speaker 3: I got a new team now. So sometimes you got
Speaker 3: to know when you have to move on.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 3: Sometimes if you you know, you got to know when
Speaker 3: you're at a certain place in your career where you
Speaker 3: have to make these hard decisions. You know, sometimes you
Speaker 3: want to leave an agency or a manager because we
Speaker 3: can be loyal to a fourth At the same time,
Speaker 3: you got to know where you're at and no one
Speaker 3: is time to probably move on, you know, And that's
Speaker 3: what you did, you know, so I definitely understand our situation,
Speaker 3: you know, when you're talking about.
Speaker 1: That and a manager and well very well explained, thank you.
Speaker 1: A manager also has relationships, and so in those quote
Speaker 1: unquote down times, a manager can introduce you to a
Speaker 1: producer who has an upcoming project, or a casting director
Speaker 1: that you've never known you know that wants to have
Speaker 1: a general and a meeting with you based on your work.
Speaker 1: So the manager is guiding, counseling, managing your career, but
Speaker 1: also looking ahead twelve steps strategy wise, how to get
Speaker 1: you to that level or that next. If you said
Speaker 1: I want to do you know, I want to be
Speaker 1: an action star, your managers on it, looking for actions, directors, producers,
Speaker 1: what projects are out there, and how to merge those
Speaker 1: relationships and meetings and all of that, while your agent
Speaker 1: is still procuring work for you and doing the submissions
Speaker 1: as well. So that's a body, a team that really
Speaker 1: is moving and functioning and deserving of those percentages. Now
Speaker 1: the other, the other thing that I wanted to talk about,
Speaker 1: because you are a professional, you're an expert, help me
Speaker 1: with this rayon. I have never I've been very blessed
Speaker 1: in my early career to be on independent films. However,
Speaker 1: where I am in my life right now, I've been
Speaker 1: on multi, multi multi million dollar productions with my clients.
Speaker 1: What I am not used to and now coming back
Speaker 1: on the set are takes. There were in some cases
Speaker 1: my client got three takes. In some cases my client
Speaker 1: got one take and had to ask for another take
Speaker 1: for security for them. And you know, Atlanta, seriously, I
Speaker 1: loved Atlanta. I fell in love. I fell in love.
Speaker 1: I fell in.
Speaker 2: Love, and I love actors.
Speaker 1: I want to be honest with you, guys, because in
Speaker 1: my opinion, there were certain things that I didn't feel
Speaker 1: people were honest with you, because then you would have
Speaker 1: come more prepared or you would have come right.
Speaker 2: Even extras.
Speaker 1: I had a wonderful conversation on Mother's Day with this
Speaker 1: extra and I said to him, like, I know you
Speaker 1: have no lines and you're an extra, but what's your
Speaker 1: intention standing in front of this barrel of You're homeless,
Speaker 1: You're standing in front of this barrel of fire, you're
Speaker 1: warming and what are you thinking about?
Speaker 2: Who are you? It starts here, don't dismiss that.
Speaker 1: So explain to these actors in their preparation, because again
Speaker 1: anxiety and stress, you get one take, you can no
Speaker 1: longer warm up on set.
Speaker 2: You got to come volcanic.
Speaker 3: Hot exactly exactly.
Speaker 1: I'm just passionate.
Speaker 3: No no, no, you no, no, I love I love
Speaker 3: it because and that and that. And that's the thing
Speaker 3: is these these directors that that also see that you
Speaker 3: come and you're well prepared, and you come in and
Speaker 3: you and you and you knock it out and you
Speaker 3: still feel you know what, I can probably do a
Speaker 3: little bit more. I missed, I missed a beat on
Speaker 3: this part, and they'll see what you did and they'll
Speaker 3: be like, you know what, let's do it again audibly now,
Speaker 3: I think you knocked out, and you really knocked it out,
Speaker 3: because someday they can say this because they want to
Speaker 3: move on, you know. But you know, the more you
Speaker 3: come prepared, the more you you're able to take those
Speaker 3: director adjustments as well too. And sometimes some of us
Speaker 3: actors don't take adjustments well because we're not prepared enough.
Speaker 3: And that's why it's more than just you knowing the lines.
Speaker 3: You know, like you said, the intent, what happened before.
Speaker 3: I remember when I used to do extra work, a
Speaker 3: lot of a lot of the actual work. And I'm
Speaker 3: being honest, I was only I got high as a
Speaker 3: regular actually, but ended up being a featured extra, you know,
Speaker 3: doing something in the background.
Speaker 1: Yeah, in the background.
Speaker 3: When he's like, oh I like this, I like what
Speaker 3: he's doing, and then you get the camera, you know,
Speaker 3: and and that just goes back to what we were saying,
Speaker 3: is is coaching, man. I think that that is undervalued.
Speaker 3: I think with a lot of a lot of us
Speaker 3: is getting coaching. I think sometimes we think once we
Speaker 3: booked the job, that we whatever we did in your
Speaker 3: audition or we can we can do that on the
Speaker 3: project now, right, you know, whatever I edition, that was cool,
Speaker 3: But now I land the road, we got to bring
Speaker 3: something else, you know what I mean? Because we know
Speaker 3: sometimes we get auditions that's the next day, right, I
Speaker 3: may not know of this world. I may not know
Speaker 3: the nineteen thirties right with twelve twelve to twenty four
Speaker 3: hours that I got to have this on tape. So
Speaker 3: sometimes may have to you may have to use audition
Speaker 3: techniques and to book the job. But then when you
Speaker 3: book a job, you need to really get on that
Speaker 3: pen and paper and get to those documentaries, going on
Speaker 3: YouTube and looking at the nineteen thirties and look at everything,
Speaker 3: how they handshake, how they greet each other, how they
Speaker 3: walk you know, dressed, you know, and it's just so
Speaker 3: much and I love It's just beautiful process.
Speaker 1: I love it too because I know I'm talking to
Speaker 1: an actor.
Speaker 7: I was.
Speaker 1: I was playing with my client on the set. I
Speaker 1: kept calling them Thespians. You are real because you do
Speaker 1: you know, you study, you doesn't work. I think that
Speaker 1: I feel that, you know, Atlanta is such a beautiful mecca.
Speaker 1: Why not be prepared, you know, like you already have
Speaker 1: the studios there, the productions are there. Now, make sure
Speaker 1: all of the actors are trained and going to work.
Speaker 2: You know, and then being cast right.
Speaker 1: The other thing was I feel like for you outside
Speaker 1: of primetime TV, these studios have found out you can
Speaker 1: shoot a film in fifteen to twenty.
Speaker 2: One decades.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: I come from four to six weeks. I come from
Speaker 1: a week of pre production. I mean at least a
Speaker 1: week to a month of predimension on the budget. Pre production,
Speaker 1: especially with Spike Lee. Shout out to Spike Lee for real,
Speaker 1: because Bike would have production meetings and they could be
Speaker 1: four or five hour production meetings and everybody is sitting
Speaker 1: in that conference room and every department head is sitting here,
Speaker 1: and he goes department head by department here by department head,
Speaker 1: anticipating what problems may occur or fires that we can
Speaker 1: put out.
Speaker 2: So very blessed for that.
Speaker 1: But Rayon, I got I invite you on again because
Speaker 1: we only have five minutes this one again, right.
Speaker 2: Well, I need to talk.
Speaker 1: I need you to tell these actors because again stress, anxiety,
Speaker 1: mental illness, how to deal with these fifteen to twenty
Speaker 1: one days. Because all I heard on set and the
Speaker 1: director was great. I give the director their props. Shout
Speaker 1: out to Leslie Green, the casting director.
Speaker 2: But hearing like.
Speaker 1: Moving on, moving on, moving on, moving on.
Speaker 3: Here's another thing. One of the things I was it
Speaker 3: was a project I did. I believe it was last
Speaker 3: year as a movie I did. And we got this
Speaker 3: script on such a short moment. I was, I'm one
Speaker 3: of the leads. And I got with the other three
Speaker 3: leads and I said, we're rehearsing every day. This project
Speaker 3: is for this network. But I wanted to be like
Speaker 3: it was for this network, this is how we're going
Speaker 3: to do it. So we literally rehearsed every day. I
Speaker 3: got in the hotel, the the lobby, and we were
Speaker 3: literally rehearsed every day, even day. As he was filming.
Speaker 3: Let's get to get up a little bit earlier and
Speaker 3: we get to rehearse together. So that's another thing to help.
Speaker 3: So we all got our individual coaches from our coaches,
Speaker 3: but then we'll get together and start, you know, working
Speaker 3: together on really building this project and building that chemistry.
Speaker 3: So that's another thing I believe that can help that
Speaker 3: I don't think a lot of people are doing. I
Speaker 3: remember I was in a relationship at the time and
Speaker 3: my girl mad at me. I'm like, I'm I'm trying
Speaker 3: to make the Yes. We had eighteen days, Yes, eighteen
Speaker 3: eighteen days, eighteen days. I was like trying to the
Speaker 3: best movie ever.
Speaker 1: I mean, I understand what's going on, but it breaks
Speaker 1: my heart. It was it was like I got emotional
Speaker 1: Saturday night, just a moment to myself, like I.
Speaker 2: Missed four to six weeks. I miss those projects.
Speaker 1: I miss having time in the trailer to talk and
Speaker 1: to and then you know, for me, blessed on this.
Speaker 1: Everybody was totally receptive from me, giving things and you know,
Speaker 1: and I just want to say, because you know, again
Speaker 1: I'm passionate.
Speaker 2: To watch. It may have been, it may have started.
Speaker 1: Out one way, but the beauty and the love that
Speaker 1: I have for this actor that turned that performance around
Speaker 1: and made those people clap.
Speaker 2: It was such a teachable moment for them.
Speaker 1: Yes, and they never had that before and so I
Speaker 1: felt like I was placed there for you and now
Speaker 1: you know, it was just cool to be able. And
Speaker 1: they had a big scene yesterday on Sunday. I shot
Speaker 1: on the monitor for them because nobody was there for them.
Speaker 1: I shot on the monitor. That little thing there was
Speaker 1: just so overwhelming. And then I gave them notes prior
Speaker 1: to the scene in my hotel to just be conscious
Speaker 1: of these little things so you could think about it
Speaker 1: before you get to said every take was outstanding.
Speaker 2: They were outstanding.
Speaker 3: That's the meeting that you that you did that form
Speaker 3: because now that shows them, you know what if I
Speaker 3: invest in coach and this will help my performance And.
Speaker 2: That's what they said.
Speaker 1: They said, That's what they said, Soling.
Speaker 3: What people are. What people call me the seam stealer
Speaker 3: because I've come in I'm bringing my ache.
Speaker 1: Well that's good they know that because that means that
Speaker 1: they need to up the ante, you know what I
Speaker 1: mean it. And I just want to say thank you
Speaker 1: so much for the rehearsal.
Speaker 2: Because you initiated that.
Speaker 1: I feel like, had you not maybe not, But it's
Speaker 1: veterans like you and my client that are so well
Speaker 1: seasoned that you know rhythm, you know so well the
Speaker 1: movement of the set that you know to be able
Speaker 1: to let me just run these lines. Let me just
Speaker 1: give you something and teachable moments. That's all I can say,
Speaker 1: So bravo for you. Just know, don't don't let me
Speaker 1: call you on your household and have a conversation with you.
Speaker 3: Stop. I don't even know you already know the line
Speaker 3: is open.
Speaker 1: All I was thinking it was I can't wait to
Speaker 1: ray Tuesday. I was making notes on the set before
Speaker 1: I'm asking about pray.
Speaker 2: But I'm glad, thank you. I'm just patient. I'm very passionate,
Speaker 2: and I love it. I do.
Speaker 1: I love actors then, and it wasn't about money. It
Speaker 1: was about I want you to look good. I want
Speaker 1: you to have your moments so that a casting director
Speaker 1: can see the versatility from this scene to this scene
Speaker 1: to this scene. I'm dealing with it, actor, right, man,
Speaker 1: I gotta talk to you all day and I did
Speaker 1: talk to she so show I'm gonna.
Speaker 2: Bring his acting coach on you, guys, and then you
Speaker 2: see cheek.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, he's going in.
Speaker 2: That's why I do. I'm gonna bring Elsa Lathan on.
Speaker 1: Elson's gonna h Elsa, our co executive producer is going
Speaker 1: to come on and bring on the actors that can
Speaker 1: asking you questions.
Speaker 5: Yes, ooh, I'm all seeing Steeler so many great lessons today.
Speaker 5: But we have some features seeing Steelers on with us today.
Speaker 5: I can come on camera. We have Isaac. Welcome Isaac
Speaker 5: and Havena welcome. Nifa.
Speaker 8: How are you guys? Thank you for having me Anifa?
Speaker 5: You can ask you a question.
Speaker 8: First name is how you doing, Tracy? My name is
Speaker 8: I mean, I'm from Brooklyn, New York. My question is
Speaker 8: Brooklyn House. Yes, yeah, My question was he spoke about
Speaker 8: coaching and I wanted to know what what does it
Speaker 8: look like for you in your method of giving life
Speaker 8: to the character before before getting on like preparing yourself
Speaker 8: before getting on on set?
Speaker 3: What you know what like what would I do preparing?
Speaker 8: How do you? Yeah, what are you preparing to get
Speaker 8: your to get lives to the character you can to.
Speaker 3: Train so like for example, you know, I'm actually I
Speaker 3: just finished up one show and I'm doing another show
Speaker 3: right now. Both the characters from the nineteen seventy So
Speaker 3: that instance, nineteen seventy music boom, That's what came to
Speaker 3: my mind. Right, that's where you can start to you know,
Speaker 3: because if it was different Swade with period pieces, you know,
Speaker 3: just the seventies different, you know, you dressing elegances a
Speaker 3: different field. So I started with the started with the music.
Speaker 3: Now you start going on the doctor, you know, going
Speaker 3: on documentaries and watching how they dress. You know, like
Speaker 3: I mentioned how you would give a handshake, so now
Speaker 3: I'm doing or another act that was like this is
Speaker 3: when a handshakes I saw that they were doing in
Speaker 3: the nineteen seventies. It's not the right a little, you
Speaker 3: know what I mean, It's a difference sell handshake is
Speaker 3: on and oh you know so those are the different
Speaker 3: kind of things I would I would do. So it
Speaker 3: just depends on the role. For For BMF, I started
Speaker 3: listening to DMX everything that my character was was living.
Speaker 3: DMX was rapping about this, so I already knew what
Speaker 3: music to go to. Ash was. I booked the role,
Speaker 3: you see what I'm saying, and also making sure that
Speaker 3: you have some type of uh uh similarities with the character, right,
Speaker 3: the character from being meth. He was a big basketball
Speaker 3: star in his neighborhood. I was really good at basketball
Speaker 3: in my time, you know, so I bought that similarity
Speaker 3: of my love for basketball to this car. I love dressing,
Speaker 3: I love accessorizing. He accessorized, So I'm always wearing jewelry
Speaker 3: all over that character. So that was a similarity I had,
Speaker 3: you know, so once you find a similarities, you can
Speaker 3: also use that towards the character.
Speaker 2: Thank you for that question, because that was one of.
Speaker 1: The questions that I wanted to ask him that I
Speaker 1: didn't get to.
Speaker 2: So thank you.
Speaker 1: We were able to get to that great question.
Speaker 5: Awesome, awesome, Come on, Isaac, what's your question?
Speaker 4: He was going on. My name is Isaaca Dolan.
Speaker 3: I'm from mom Vernon, Vernon, Vernon. That then I'll tell okay, okay,
Speaker 3: high Yeah.
Speaker 4: So my question is what are some of some of
Speaker 4: the things that you do to prepare for a scene,
Speaker 4: especially if you haven't rehearsed with your scene partner or
Speaker 4: partners to make it authentic.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, so what would I do right before a
Speaker 3: scene or rehearse So one of the things listen, one
Speaker 3: of the things I do if I can't get well.
Speaker 3: I tell you one of the key things that I
Speaker 3: do right, so not necessarily when it comes to the character,
Speaker 3: but per se, if I want to be able to
Speaker 3: rehearse the lines I have nobody rehearsal with. One of
Speaker 3: the things that I do is I would go on
Speaker 3: to voice notes right and I would say the other
Speaker 3: person nine. I would give it two beats and then
Speaker 3: I would say, and now, nobody, which will be my
Speaker 3: line that I was supposed to say, And then I'll
Speaker 3: say the other line. So that's one of the things
Speaker 3: I can do to help me rehearse the lines by
Speaker 3: my self if I have nobody rehearse it with. Now,
Speaker 3: if I need, you know, a physical person, you call
Speaker 3: somebody you know, somebody, family member, friend, your coach to
Speaker 3: run those lines. If you don't have that other person
Speaker 3: you can rehearse with, because sometimes you might I might
Speaker 3: be working with desup that might not take the time
Speaker 3: to rehearse with me. So if you have somebody else
Speaker 3: that you could call or rehearse with right before you
Speaker 3: start filming, then you can do that as well. That's
Speaker 3: one of the things I do.
Speaker 2: I just thank you Elsa so much.
Speaker 1: The questions were on the point, and they definitely were
Speaker 1: questions that I wanted to incorporate, and I'm so glad
Speaker 1: that you guys asked them.
Speaker 2: Thank you guys, so.
Speaker 1: So much question. Yes, thank you, Elsa. So you guys
Speaker 1: sit back, don't get nervous. We still got ready On
Speaker 1: Lawrence with us. We're gonna come into class and sessions
Speaker 1: with these spirited actors, these gentlemen that I'm excited to see.
Speaker 3: You look confident.
Speaker 2: Right, all right, audience holds on.
Speaker 1: When we come back to the Spirited Active Podcast with
Speaker 1: me Tracy Moore, we are going to have Blast Insesson.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Spirited Actor Podcast with the Tracy
Speaker 1: Moore and you guys are blast because Rayon Lawrence is
Speaker 1: still with us, and Elsa lady is going to come
Speaker 1: on and introduce her spirited actors who are going to
Speaker 1: do a scene.
Speaker 5: Yes, hey Elsa, Hello, Hello, Hey.
Speaker 9: Rayon.
Speaker 3: Bet Hey. Also, what's up?
Speaker 5: Hey hey, So today we have two of our spirited
Speaker 5: actors who uh since they've been on, so we welcome
Speaker 5: y'all back. We have mister Isaac Adope, Welcome back, Isaac.
Speaker 2: Hey Isaac.
Speaker 5: And we have mister Nipa Jabbah.
Speaker 8: Yes, yes, thank you for having me.
Speaker 5: Hey are you chasing?
Speaker 2: So good to see you.
Speaker 5: But today's scene is Differences, written by Lee and Hansbury
Speaker 5: legally known as lea Amato Exterior City National Bank Parking Lot.
Speaker 5: Tony and Terrence step out of the bank and quickly
Speaker 5: pull out the certificate of deposit and receipt issued to
Speaker 5: them both. They read it, and they're both visibly affected
Speaker 5: with gratitude, even though.
Speaker 4: Their mom is still taking care of us.
Speaker 8: Yep, she really did. I'm not supposed to ask you,
Speaker 8: but it doesn't matter, but a mom need you.
Speaker 5: Tony looks down at the check and back at him.
Speaker 5: He hesitates and knows why.
Speaker 8: Comem boy, you could tell me ther Mom doesn't matter.
Speaker 8: Mom worked it out for both of us. I'm just curious.
Speaker 8: Fifty nice?
Speaker 4: What about you?
Speaker 8: Thirty thousand?
Speaker 5: Now it's awkward after a moment, trying to come up
Speaker 5: with something to say.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, I guess for the different I don't think
Speaker 4: it was personal, you know Mom?
Speaker 8: Bro?
Speaker 3: She you know?
Speaker 8: Are you kidding me right now?
Speaker 1: Bro?
Speaker 8: It's cool. I'm just happy Mom hooked it up. Besides,
Speaker 8: those situations are different. I'll get it.
Speaker 4: What's that supposed to me?
Speaker 8: I'm just saying I'm ten ten steps ahead. I know Mom,
Speaker 8: she was looking out for you, to look up for
Speaker 8: you too. So what are you saying, really, Team, I'm
Speaker 8: not about to do it with you right now, Broll.
Speaker 4: I feel like you're trying to a sinuate something.
Speaker 8: You all know. Mom pitied you. I mean she wasn't
Speaker 8: she know she wouldn't let go until she knew that
Speaker 8: you would be all right.
Speaker 7: But but but I got you. She knows that pity
Speaker 7: like on some tope of charity. My relationship with Mom
Speaker 7: was different. Oh yeah, householdie.
Speaker 4: We were just close and I respected her.
Speaker 8: Now you're insinuating that I didn't.
Speaker 4: I'm just saying it was different.
Speaker 8: It ain't gotta explain, man, I know how it is.
Speaker 8: Just make sure you're wives. But my mom gave me
Speaker 8: no one else I had got it like that to
Speaker 8: be taken care of me. Once all that is.
Speaker 5: Gone to his car, Tony looks down at his check,
Speaker 5: thinks about what he said, and follows his brothers.
Speaker 2: See, okay, all.
Speaker 1: Right, guys, I'm gonna throw it to you.
Speaker 2: Rayon.
Speaker 3: Yes, Bettuh, great, great job, guys, Isaac. I liked how
Speaker 3: you know you looked in this guy, you know, you know,
Speaker 3: honoring your your mother, uh while you got this check.
Speaker 3: I love that because you always want to you know,
Speaker 3: And I always like to talk to the technicality whenever
Speaker 3: we're doing stuff like this, right and we're doing this
Speaker 3: on zoom. You know, you're painting to the audience what
Speaker 3: you're doing. You know, you're not just saying the words,
Speaker 3: but painting the audience what you're doing. I like how
Speaker 3: you guys both interacted for say a name, Yeah, great
Speaker 3: job as well. I would I would say just the
Speaker 3: technicality I was, are you sitting down?
Speaker 8: Yeah I am.
Speaker 3: I would stand up, okay, stand up scene, stand up,
Speaker 3: stand up in the scene. That's just a technicality of it.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 3: So when I say we do these things, you gotta
Speaker 3: remember everybody's everybody's listening, everybody's watching, right also producers, I produced.
Speaker 3: I could see this, captain. But you know what, I
Speaker 3: just saw these guys acting. I can literally want to
Speaker 3: cast you on something if I'm seeing everything that you're
Speaker 3: doing here almost correctly in a sense. Like I said,
Speaker 3: the audition was great. I just like to talk about
Speaker 3: the technicality of things too, because that's very important. That's
Speaker 3: what I was saying. In this scene. Make sure make
Speaker 3: sure to stand up your stand up and you get
Speaker 3: the energy from it. Right, I'm gonna take one who
Speaker 3: says it as we're doing this. So one of the
Speaker 3: things that stood up for me with being Meth and
Speaker 3: Stars is at the table read, I was the only
Speaker 3: person that stood up energy all my scenes up up
Speaker 3: and I'm bringing the energy to which it comes back,
Speaker 3: and Stars was like, yo, I can tell from the
Speaker 3: table read this guy's gonna kill this role. You know
Speaker 3: what I mean. So that's why I just said, Ay,
Speaker 3: it's the stand up scene. Stand up in the scene.
Speaker 3: Or if you was leaning on the car, that's fine,
Speaker 3: you know, but I think we would probably you both
Speaker 3: standing together. But great job. Both of you guys are like,
Speaker 3: how to rock with your show?
Speaker 1: Wow, that was great feedback you guys, And I want
Speaker 1: to say that's what we always say as casting directors, Rayon,
Speaker 1: we always ask you guys to stand in your scenes.
Speaker 2: That's where the energy is.
Speaker 1: I just wanted to give one note to Nifa when
Speaker 1: you came back with you know, you got thirty five,
Speaker 1: he got fifty. Your mom thought like, you know, maybe
Speaker 1: he needed more. That's a dig. That's a passive aggressive.
Speaker 1: In my opinion, that's a dig. So you're I felt hurt,
Speaker 1: even through your laughter, I felt hurt, like, oh, she
Speaker 1: gave him fifty and I got thirty. That's got to
Speaker 1: be a little dig, just in human nature.
Speaker 10: You know, he got a little more regardless, he needed it,
Speaker 10: he had to be He's got a little more, and
Speaker 10: you're just going to as a human being, you're going
Speaker 10: to accept that as I'm not good or even if
Speaker 10: it's just a moment a flash.
Speaker 1: So it just felt like, you know, somewhere in there
Speaker 1: that was a dig. But I too, I thought that
Speaker 1: you guys did a great job in handling it.
Speaker 3: Excellent.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much. This is the part where I
Speaker 2: have to let you go.
Speaker 1: I'm so sad, but this is not being This is
Speaker 1: truly the beginning.
Speaker 3: Man, dot dot dot dot.
Speaker 1: Yes, just a wealth of wealth of information. And it's
Speaker 1: all about how you deliver things. And that was important,
Speaker 1: you know, being on the set, how you say things,
Speaker 1: because you know, I watched somebody, I just watched somebody
Speaker 1: get a little personal with a feedback and simply.
Speaker 2: By me passing that person and just.
Speaker 1: Just touching their back a little assuring them like don't
Speaker 1: take it personal.
Speaker 2: Let it go. We got another take.
Speaker 1: Put it in that and that that's all I put
Speaker 1: in my hand and they received it.
Speaker 2: So you know, I just thank.
Speaker 1: You for being generous and kind and how you are
Speaker 1: giving this information to these actors and then receiving it.
Speaker 1: Rayon Lawrence, you are invited to this show anytime. Please
Speaker 1: tell us if there's something we need to we know,
Speaker 1: be an effort.
Speaker 2: Is there anything else you want to let us know.
Speaker 3: Or yeah, well you know, just I just finished the project.
Speaker 3: I just I'll let you guys know. I'll put you
Speaker 3: guys on.
Speaker 2: Okay, thank you.
Speaker 3: The project I just finished up is called Fight Night,
Speaker 3: and that's supposed to be, like that's going to be
Speaker 3: a huge project. It's starring Samuel Jackson, Kinmaheart, Taraji Turns,
Speaker 3: Howard don Gio. So it's a big deal. So I'm
Speaker 3: blessed to be able to work on a project with
Speaker 3: with with these stars. And that's what I just finished.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, when it comes out, we might need
Speaker 1: to call right back, you know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, all right.
Speaker 1: And the other thing I want to say is that
Speaker 1: actors read industry.
Speaker 2: Magazines online, go to deadline.
Speaker 1: You need to understand, and you need to understand what
Speaker 1: projects are coming up that your agents can happen to
Speaker 1: right now.
Speaker 2: Did you submit me to Fight Night? Did you submit
Speaker 2: me to.
Speaker 3: You know, like I can add some business? I got
Speaker 3: some real kick, Tracy, go ahead. So just to piggyback
Speaker 3: on that real quick. You know, I got all these stories,
Speaker 3: but so so the the produced executive producer for uh Insecure.
Speaker 3: Who's doing a project? I believe it was on Fuse
Speaker 3: TV And I couldn't get an audition. But what I
Speaker 3: did was I found the sides on Actor's Access Right
Speaker 3: Breakdown Services, got the sides, put it on tape, and
Speaker 3: I submitted to him directly through Facebook. He responds back
Speaker 3: and just says good jobs. I'm like, I E pie
Speaker 3: in Look. The next day, I received a call from
Speaker 3: his cast in rector wanted me to come in an
Speaker 3: audition for the lead. So things like that. You know,
Speaker 3: you could utilize social media and just go outside the box.
Speaker 3: You know you can get these auditions. I can. Even
Speaker 3: with Malcolm d Lee the audition, I was trying to
Speaker 3: get an audition. I went on his comments and I
Speaker 3: was like, welcome, I work with your barbershop three. You
Speaker 3: know I want to audition for your product. Boom. I
Speaker 3: get an audition through my ages the next day. So
Speaker 3: utilize the social media. Yeah, absolutely, all that stuff.
Speaker 2: You got into.
Speaker 1: It's a business. Be in in in, think outside love. Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, ladies and gentlemen, stand up, please put your
Speaker 1: hands together for Rayon Laurn.
Speaker 3: Thank you, thank you, Thank you guys. Great to see you,
Speaker 3: Thank you for having me again. Best of luck, my guys.
Speaker 3: Great job today, excellent.
Speaker 1: We are so blessed on the show. That's why I
Speaker 1: love this show. When we come back on the Spirited
Speaker 1: Actor Podcast with me Tracy Moore, I'm going to give
Speaker 1: you love for today, I'm going to give you some move.
Speaker 2: Welcome to Kudo's Corner.
Speaker 1: Kudos Corner is where we celebrate actors, we support them
Speaker 1: and we give them mad love and a big hug.
Speaker 1: This week's Kudos Corner puts the spotlight on Spirited actor
Speaker 1: Shamika Nelson. Shamika is featured in the award winning docu
Speaker 1: drama Lovely Jackson, which has screened and placed at several
Speaker 1: film festivals, including the can International Pan Africa Newport Beach
Speaker 1: ABFF and the Montreal International Black Film Festival. You can
Speaker 1: also see her on my show Inside the Black Box
Speaker 1: on Crackle TV, as well as in Babby Oopsie as
Speaker 1: well as in Baby Oopsie.
Speaker 2: On Amazon Prime.
Speaker 1: And to be next step for Shamika is a featured
Speaker 1: role working with filmmaker Man Robinson. Kudos to Shamika Nelson
Speaker 1: and now it's time to give love. I was on
Speaker 1: a set recently and as I was walking to my
Speaker 1: client's trailer, I passed an actor who was sitting on
Speaker 1: the steps going over their lines, I mean really going
Speaker 1: over their lines like this was the first time they
Speaker 1: had seen their lines. What screamed out to me at
Speaker 1: that moment was not only did they not know their lines,
Speaker 1: then they must not have done the character work for
Speaker 1: their character. It is important that you know why you
Speaker 1: were doing this, because if you're doing this to, you know,
Speaker 1: be famous and get back at somebody or prove something
Speaker 1: to someone, those are not the right intentions and they're
Speaker 1: not going to sustain you for the longevity.
Speaker 2: Of an actor's career.
Speaker 1: If you're doing it because you want to do great
Speaker 1: work and be seen and eventually build a body of
Speaker 1: work for yourself. In your training, and you're committing every
Speaker 1: day to fifteen minutes or more in an actor's space
Speaker 1: to do the work.
Speaker 2: And if you are not, it's okay.
Speaker 9: Step aside and let the actors that really do want
Speaker 9: to be actors and work as actors come through.
Speaker 1: This is not a game, This is not playing, this
Speaker 1: is not make believe. This is a job.
Speaker 2: Hi.
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