Alex Bhat

“NEVER, NEVER, NEVER GIVE UP” thomas the tank engine Was this forwarded to you? Subscribe Here There is so much shit out there telling you to give up. There are so many people out there who will argue that to follow your passion is to live unrealistically in this world. That you should be smart and earn your way sensibly. To them i say “O captain my captain” To them I say no. This world needs those who believe in art, who believe in artists who believe in it all. Who look at what is beautiful…

“Where your fear is, there is your task.” Carl Jung Was this forwarded to you? Subscribe Here First day on set and i’m sitting in the back of a minivan looking at my hand. “Alex…? you alright mate?” I look up it’s Noah the 3rd AD “It’s just, they need you on set for a camera rehearsal” I look around. Everyone else has left the bus. I stare back at my hand it’s trembling. I’m afraid the director is going to think he’s made a terrible mistake I’m afraid my costars are going to think i’m a…

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” Anaïs Nin Was this forwarded to you? Subscribe Here (This email was originally sent out on Monday – if it ended up in your junk, just drag it over to your main inbox. Alternatively if you no longer find them useful then feel free to unsubscribe at anytime. ) Hello you cheeky monkey As we hit the 62nd edition of the newsletter I thought it might be useful to point you towards a few past editions that could help with any problems you’ve…

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” Anaïs Nin Was this forwarded to you? Subscribe Here Hello you cheeky monkey As we hit the 62nd edition of the newsletter I thought it might be useful to point you towards a few past ones that could help with whatever you’ve got in front of you this week. If you’re dealing with any of the below, I’ve linked to the edition that might help. If you can’t find what you’re looking for, reply to this email and I’ll send you something useful….

“To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s” fyodor Dostoevsky Was this forwarded to you? Subscribe Here (This email was originally sent out on Monday – if it ended up in your junk, just drag it over to your main inbox. Alternatively if you no longer find them useful then feel free to unsubscribe at anytime. ) I made $1250 recording my first audiobook. It took me 18 months of getting everything wrong before I booked that job. So I decided to create the guide I…

“To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s” fyodor Dostoevsky Was this forwarded to you? Subscribe Here Waiting. Waiting. Waiting. I keep having a Groundhog day conversation. When I’m talking to another actor and I tell them my day job is narrating audiobooks from my bedroom they’ll usually say something along the lines of: Ah, I’ve been meaning to get into that but… and then one of the following: i’m not technical I can’t really afford it right now I…

AlmostCertainlyNot. Was this forwarded to you? Subscribe Here If you’re looking at your lack of auditions over the last 2 months with the very real feeling that the industry en masse has finally sussed you out and pigeonholed you for disposal, nearly every actor I’ve spoken to has confirmed the following: it’s a friggin wasteland out there. I’ve had 2 auditions in the last 2 months. This is low. I feel like this absence of auditions comes around this time every year. But that does not make it…

“The Secret: DO GOOD WORK AND SHARE IT WITH PEOPLE” Austin kleon Was this forwarded to you? Subscribe Here (This email was originally sent out on Monday – if it ended up in your junk, just drag it over to your main inbox. Alternatively if you no longer find them useful then feel free to unsubscribe at anytime. ) Dear Alex in the future, In the past you worried that: You will become an actor who never acts You will never have the chance to make your own work As a result you worried that you…

“The Secret: DO GOOD WORK AND SHARE IT WITH PEOPLE” Austin kleon Was this forwarded to you? Subscribe Here Dear future Alex, In the past you’ve worried that: You will become an actor who never acts You will never have the chance to make your own work As a result you worried that you will die feeling unfulfilled. Jaded and bitter with the world. Saying things like “if only I had been given more opportunities…” But You also know that you have a lot to offer. Many many stories to tell. It’s…

“It’s not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles…The credit belongs to the man who is actually inside the arena…who strives valiantly, who errs” Theodore Roosevelt (This email was originally sent out on Monday – if it ended up in your junk, just drag it over to your main inbox. Alternatively if you no longer find them useful then feel free to unsubscribe at anytime) Good afternoon to you, you cheeky monkey, let’s get right into it… Today we’re: 🪰…