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🚫 Have you been blacklisted…?

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…

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πŸŒ‹ Today – here’s how actors win online

“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…

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πŸŒ‹ 3 People Nailed Online

“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…

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πŸŒ‹ You have a very big problem

“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: πŸͺ°…

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πŸŒ‹ 16 Dead Flies

“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 Good morning to you, you cheeky monkey, let’s get right into it… Today we’re: πŸͺ° Going on an adventure… 🀼 Which two readers are making something together? πŸ’° He will teach you to be rich. Crashed and I burnt myself out last week. In the lead up to writing the first part of the Actors Who…

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🧠 Actors Who Hate Social Media Playbook Part 1

“We may feel if only I suffer long enough, if only I yearn desperately enough, somehow a miracle will happen, but this is the kind of self-deception one pays for with one’s life” Nathaniel Branden (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) What follows is me trying to make sense of my feelings about social media. It may come across…

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πŸŒ‹ Am I making a terrible mistake?

“We may feel if only I suffer long enough, if only I yearn desperately enough, somehow a miracle will happen, but this is the kind of self-deception one pays for with one’s life” Nathaniel Branden Here’s where I’m at with social media: I fucking hate it. I hate what it does to me. I hate how it makes me feel. I hate how envious it makes me I hate that it brings out the worst in me I hate how insignificant and small it makes me feel I hate that it can see me in my bathroom looking at my…

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πŸŒ‹ Your talent is meaningless

“Tremendous interest in the superficial is very characteristic of cultures in decline.” Martin Amis We find ourselves at the beginning of a revolution. In which an industry is reordering itself. And power is yours for the taking. Coming up in the letter: πŸ’ͺ Your ultimate leverage 🧠 3 x Reader wins πŸŽ₯ favorite film ive seen in 2 years. πŸ‘ A new (yet somehow old) poll! But first lets look at The Stath. moves The average actor in the UK would need to work for 1,000 years to earn what Jason Statham…

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Your Selftapes = Binned πŸ—‘οΈ

“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.” Cormac mccarthy Watching actors fail. Some of the best learning I have ever done has happened watching actors fail. Drama school. Classes. Rehearsal rooms. You watch other actors taking a risk, flpppp, it doesn’t work out. They take a bigger risk, flpppppp, it doesn’t work out. They won’t quit and they take an even bigger risk, flppppppppp, it doesn’t work – but suddenly– …you know what you need to do Their struggle has…

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πŸŒ‹ “That Got You A Series Reg…Really?”

“Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now.” Goethe If I can convince you of one thing this week it is this: that you do not need to be cowed by the unfair deadlines imposed on you you don’t need to feel like crap all the time just because the industry refuses to change you do not need to force yourself into positions that you are not comfortable with, merely to have a small chance of making a living. You do not need to be stepped on. If we treat what we are making in our…

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