#working actress

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Sandra Oh To Star in Stage 6 Films’ Supernatural Horror Pic ‘Umma’ With Sam Raimi Producing

EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures’ Stage 6 Films has acquired worldwide rights to Raimi Productions and Starlight Media’s supernatural horror film Umma, starring Golden Globe winner Sandra Oh, who also serv…

With Killing Eve season 4 still stuck in limbo, Sandra Oh is moving on to a new film project.   Keep working, working actress!

[theabsintheraven]

Getting headshots done. I look cute as fuck. Deal with it.

[g33ktress]

When your reader is unfamiliar with your camera and has been recording the whole time…

[saidydoll]

Riding The Emotional Actor Rollercoaster

Yo! Did you miss me? I told you I was going to make blogging about acting part of my everyday jam. Why? Because how else can you focus on something that is so abstract. You can go to classes, you can get your headshots, and all those other tangible things. But about "you?" Your essence.

Being an actor means being open to the world. All the yay, and all the sad, bummer moments. The finding yourself in the middle of this ride. The funniest thing in the "real" world, people try to cheer you up when you're bummed. "Don't be. Distract yourself. Numb yourself to the feelings."

I say hell to the no. People think they're doing you a favor by cheering you up. I've spent a lifetime hearing, "forget about it." Followed by some light hearted conversation. Meaning I get one sentence out about how I'm feeling, and getting promptly shut down from expressing my feelings.

Then polite me says, "You're right." Which is only me denying myself what I'm experiencing. Totally denying myself a moment, 'cause heaven forbid anything in life be other than happy. I love these people in my life who tell me not to think about it. They honestly think they're helping you.

Maybe it's a woman thing? We don't want to disappoint, bother people with our problems aka our feelings. I used to pride myself on not showing any weakness. Yes, this is what I used to call emotions other than happy ones. I'm pissed at you. I'm not going to give you the satisfaction of being weak. 

As an actor this gives you jack shit to work with, but I have been called the politest on stage. I really did laugh at myself after that critique. That'll help me on stage. The depth of door stop. I'm so not self hating, but I realize this is a major area of growth for most people. I know it is for me.

When a good friend tried to stop for talking about my current depressed mood. There it came. One line from me. Good friend to the rescue. "Maybe you should read or something." I promptly said, "No, I'm depressed, and I need to feel this."

You know what? Today I feel awesome. Why? Because I dealt with what I was feeling, and able to move on. Because if you emotionally avoid something, you just deny yourself an opportunity to grow. Your shit will always be there. Stopping you from being you.  

[saidydoll]

Motivating Daily On Your Acting Career

So how do you keep focused on being a working actor. Everyday you have to feel like you are working towards your goal. What did you achieve today? What did you do to work towards your acting career. The end result is booking the job, but what's all the hard work beforehand.

Acting Classes

Finding the right acting studio for you is key. I tried various teachers, methods, and techniques.  When it really comes down to you have to find the place that is right for you. The place, home, which helps you reach your authentic self. I found this happy place for myself at Anthony Meindl 

You can have the right look, be striking, look great in pictures. But when you're in that audition room. The magic of you has to come alive. Have I perfected this? Hell to the no, but everyday I try to work on being honest with myself an others...cough cough this blog.

Acting Profiles

Set up your acting profiles, and fill in all those little dots, bubbles, and pictures. You have to put yourself where the action is. How do agents get breakdowns. Online. How do submissions occur? Online. You get the drift here. What sites do you need to be on...

Casting Networks

Actors Access

Casting Frontier

...and now you breathe. Because you're gonna have to get overwhelmed with the thoughts of agents, mangers, headshots, reels, and you know what? You don't have to do everything in one day. Everyday do something to focus on your career. We'll do more tomorrow.

[saidydoll]

Being A Working Actress In Hollywood

Hey, 

How's it going? As you can see, my blog, site has totally changed. And you know what. It's totally fine. Apologies in advance. These blog posts are no longer going to be beautifully labored and grammatically correct. Not out of sheer laziness, more for the "just get it out."

I'm starting to think of my blog as the snapchat of my life vs. a beautiful i.g. post. So yeah, being a working actress in hollywood is hard af. I've always been an entertainer at heart, but you know who stopped me. ME. All those little voices in my head telling me I wasn't tall enough, pretty enough, thin enough, etc...etc.

But here I am, after I said to myself. I have to be honest with what makes me happy. What is my special gift I can share with the world. Myself. Literally, myself. It sounds easy enough, but honestly it is the scariest thing I have ever done, but here I am. The signs of the world tell me to follow my artistic path through acting. I'm answering the call.

So this is my first post. Owning my truth. I'm a working actress in Hollywood. If you want to read those posts about living a healthy life, eating well, by all means check out my archive. But from now on this is going to be more of a personal journal. Taking the blog back to basics. The snapchat of working in hollywood.

How do you pay the bills? Motivate when it seems like you're not getting ahead. Basically, how do you keep faith in your passion, when life gets in the way. So let's go on this adventure. I'm sure this mania is relatable to everyone. As prince said, dearly beloved we're gathered together to get through this thing called life.

You know how you say you're going to do things or if only this happened. Well fuck it. This blog is about keeping me accountable to myself. What did I do today, what am I doing tomorrow. what did I do to keep focused on my goal of being a working actress in hollywood.

I'll tell you what this blog post does. This cute little picture you see of me. I'm sending it out to the world wide web. It sounds lame, but I actually got my first national car commercial from my facebook pictures. No joke. You gotta put yourself out there, and not be afraid to be yourself.

This should be fun. 

[alwaysseeingred]

Red lobster shoot done!

Now to submit for 2 movies, pick out 2 songs (I think I have them), memorize a classic monologue, re-read a scene to get that back in my skull, and try to not have a panic attack. Oh, and finish a Zootopia article.

[therealbhellabell]

Scene Study, character building...