How do you stand out?
This is the biggest thing in auditioning as far as I’m concerned. It’s sometimes hard to fathom just how many people the casting folk have to see on a daily basis. The same is true for the university admissions folk as well. There are literally hundreds of thousands of people that want to be actors and as a general rule, they’re going to be attracted to the same opportunities to act as you are.
So, the things I’ve noticed that just seem to kill off enthusiasm and worse yet, the ENJOYMENT of acting are:
1- Seeing that kind of blank, empty look on the casting peoples faces at the end of your audition.
2- Hearing a plain old “thank you” at the end of your audition.
3- Not KNOWING and second guessing what the casting people may have wanted or not at the end of your audition.
Taken singularly, these things aren’t so bad. But, pile them up day after day after day and they become very burdensome. I think people that don’t act have a hard time understanding how tough it can be emotionally. My ex-wife’s brother in law was a fairly prominent actor in his youth and he once told me something that always stuck with me. He said “when people go on job interviews, they may go to two or three, sometimes even four or five, but they KNOW that sooner or later they’re going to get a job, It’s just a matter of time.”
But, then he said “but, imagine if after the 5th interview you didn’t get the job. And then the next and the next and a year later it’s been 200 interviews and you still haven’t gotten a job. How would you feel?”
And I said something like, “probably pretty low”
To which he replies, “that’s NORMAL for acting work.”
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