What’s the hardest part of being an actor for you right now?
Just hit reply and let me know.
You’re f^78d9fsng doing it.
Around 5,000 actors answered the Equity ballot last month and an astounding 99.6% of them said they would take industrial action (aka strike) if the producers refused to grant humane protections on Ai.
That is how important this is.
The union is also fighting for you to get:
- Better pay rates
- Better royalties
- Better H/MU provisions for all ethnicities
- Better conditions for choreographers/movement directors
- Better rules for selftapes and casting
As a direct result of your votes, the producers have had to come back to the negotiation table and have entered into further negotiations with Equity leadership, now with the knowledge that if they do not grant us the protections we are demanding, they will face a potential strike.
We are deciding how Ai should be used in our industry.
Well done everyone who voted.
Be part of the fight here or just follow here.
Reader Win
If you missed it, the Brando is a method to selftape without learning your lines. It allows you to fight back against the absurd number of lines to learn and the shitty selftape deadlines. You can download the guide here The Brando.pdf
Last week long time reader of the letter, Kaffe, reported back that after using the Brando
“my agent just said that she loved the scenes – it was really natural so it clearly made a difference and the big thing was that it wasn’t really super fucking stressful – as it often is. I had less than an hour to get it done…did 2 takes the second one was better and that was it.”
Punching the needless stress that gets in the way of the work right in it’s kidneys. Well done mate.
SISUPHYS
- I love this video. It reminds me of my ability to persist. To not give up. To think – okay, well that didn’t work what do i try now.
- I watched this video once and it hasn’t left:
It’s worth noting that we do not see how his pursuit affected his family, his friends, his social life, or whether or not he is happy.
What I watched in the cinema last week
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (dir. Nia DaCosta)
I left thinking about how lucky i am not to be a resident of the 28 world.
One or two moments of the worst violence i’ve ever seen on screen followed by one or two moments of the best cinema i’ve seen in years, followed, suprisingly, by the deepest night sleep i’ve had in weeks.
Curiously life affirming if you can stomach the horror of it all.
Watch in the cinema.
What you are doing is incredible.
I know it doesnt feel that way sometimes. You go from feeling on top of the world one hour, to feeling like you are a complete beginner another. Despite having been a pro for years.
But you did something most people could not:
You chose to pursue what you loved doing, to make it into your career.
If you are anything like me you were warned it would be tricky.
If you are anything like me you thought you knew what that meant.
And if you are anything like me you are served up some new form of tricky every day.
And yet. Somehow you still persist.
You feel like giving up sometimes. Of course you do, everybody does. And yet you continue.
I hope you understand on a deep level how special that is. That what you are doing, and what you have done is something incredible.
Keep going.
See you next week,
A x
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