Little Actor Things

A blog founded by an actor, for actors. Posts regard both film/television acting and theatre acting and will be tagged individually as such. Original posts tagged #littleactorthings. Feel free to drop me a suggestion, submission or whatever else you'd like anytime!

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I was working on this TV show last week and it was about a 14/15-hour shoot day... worked again on the show today and wrapped after just 10 hours. I seriously wouldn’t have minded it being a 16-18 hour day - but I’d assume that’s the general attitude when you’re wholeheartedly in love with what you do. 😉

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Isn’t this, like, illegal or something?

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When you have this idea for a short film and you can't wait to start writing it out, but you honestly can't stand the idea of anyone other than you playing the lead role. And that's okay, because it's pretty likely that it'll be a low-budget indie and casting yourself as the lead while having also written it, produced it and directed it saves money anyway, right? 😉

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"Can I just win an Oscar now? Please?"

me, at least once a week

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Best & Worst Auditions

I don’t really share much of how auditions go. But the truth is that as an actor, auditions suck. Audition. It’s a terrible word that strikes anxiety and fear into the hearts of every actor. It’s got the word AUDIT in there. Like your going to act for the IRS. It’s terrifying. We should remove the word from our vocabulary. Anyway, here’s a couple of audition stories from my journey. Enjoy!

My worst audition was for “Silicon Valley”. I was in for a guest star role as “Tech Guy”. The sides involved me using the audition camera as a security camera for some physical comedy. I go in the room, I do my first take. Goes well enough. I get direction to go bigger. As I went bigger I get close to the camera and knock it over. I catch it mere inches away from the casting associates face. She says, “It’s ok.” I go to leave and thank her and stick out my hand for a hand shake. Casting doesn’t like to shake hands due to germs and not wanting to get sick. I remember this just as she is sticking her hand out to shake mine. I turn my hand into a fist bump to try to help the situation and her hand runs directly into my fist. I left. Needless to say I didn’t book it and haven’t been called back.

Best audition was for a small part in “Hail, Caesar!” by the Coen Bros. I went to the callback and there they were. I was nervous of course. I’ve loved their work for as long as I can remember. Ethan shakes my hand, which I was of course hesitant about due to my last story. I do the scene and they laugh. Belly laughs. I left the room walking on clouds. I said for the first time TRULY MEANING IT that it didn’t matter if I booked the part or not. Making them laugh was enough. I didn’t book the part. But it was a great accomplishment making the Coens laugh…at their own script.

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Having a shortlist of dramatic monologues you'd love to memorize for an audition, but being unable to pick just one because you love them all. <<<

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You know you’re an actor when your iPod is filled with film score music and you play certain songs and pretend you’re in a scene in a movie or TV show with that song playing. I seriously do this all the time in my bathroom. 😂

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You know you're a theatre person if...

You’ve had nightmares about: -dropping lights -forgetting all your lines -being late to the show that you’re stage managing and running -having actors not show up and having to do their part for them -you lose your voice and have to find out how to project when you can’t talk -having the sound system stop working and having no sound effects at all -all of the costumes break while they’re onstage and then the lamps burn out and then the set falls apart and you’re left crying and watching it all untangle while the audience boos and laughs at everyone

Happy opening night!!

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DON'T SCARE ME LIKE THIS!

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walking backstage

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AKA the reason I developed an addiction to dried mango slices after a film shoot a couple years ago. 😄😂

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Theatre Kid Problems

-Actor: “have you even looked at the script?” Other Actor: “I’ll look at it later” Actor:“were four weeks into rehearsal”

-Whoever measures for costumes need to learn how to Do their JOB

-costumes never fit

-fat kids Dont Get Costumes

-“make sure to dress up on opening night!”

-learn your l i n e s

-“we’re missing seven people” “Theres nine people in the cast”

-“hey does the spotlight work yet?” “It hasnt worked for three years”

-Learn your goddamn lines

-“WHAT HAPPENED TO THE WALLS???” “He painted over them. He didnt like them” “THE SHOWS IN FIVE DAYS, WE DONT HAVE TIME TO CARE ABOUT WHAT HE LIKES AND DOESNT LIKE”

-Wheres the set? N o i d e a

-“just pull from the budget”

-hahahahhahahahahah

-what budget?

-hell week earns its name

-h e ll

-“hey learn act two lines by next week” “Um, i don’t even have scene one lines learnt”

-“im going to cancel the fucking show”

-“WHERES THE ENERGY”

-“okay, no, go back and do it again, theres no way you could’ve recovered from that”

-LeArN yOuR fUcKiNg LiNeS

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Oh, the life of a small town actor...