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“Determination, if you think about it, is invincible” Ryan holiday Thank you for all last week’s replies. I was grateful and incredibly touched by all your messages. This week We’re asking you a question. I want to make sure this letter helps you with what you need. Today in the letter: ⁉️ ✅ Another big win for actors 🍕 A reader vs. a selftape vs. a pdf 🪨 Terrible violence So here it is… What’s the hardest part of being an actor for you right now? Just hit reply and let me know. You’re…

“Pay attention to who you are around when you feel your best. Be with them more often.” Kevin Kelly Everything in our industry is weighted towards making you feel like you have to deal with this shit on your own. But you don’t. You really don’t. Coming up in the letter: 🦞 Paul smashed it. 🏃♂️ Free Franco Manca. 👌 The best cinema in the world But first let’s talk about my friends: Alone My friends became my competition at the beginning of 3rd year. “Oh man, that’s amazeballs, brilliant…well…

“I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man’s. I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.” William Blake You can’t make a living as an actor. You’re working nights in a job you hate while waiting for a break that might never come. You’ve been doing this for years now, and you’re starting to wonder if it ever will. But little did you know you’ve been set up to lose. Welcome to 6 figure actor. A weekly email for actors who are bored of the crap conditions the…

“I sometimes look at a cow and think, that’s the most beautiful thing ever.” Orlando bloom Actors are great. But it’s a hard fucking job. And as we all know, the job is not the job. The not job is the job. The not job is the time that I am not employed as an actor. It’s where nearly all of the hard work resides. It’s in the not job that our self confidence falls away and we feel like crap. It’s in the not job we convince ourselves that we don’t belong. It’s in the not job that we begin to…

“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” Harold Thurman Despite last week’s spirited claims, Selftape Pizza will in fact resume in the New Year. There is a time and a place for getting better at our work, the holiday break is for breaking so will be doing that today instead. If you have written your first screenplay If you have been dropped in the shit at your work, and then exceeded all…

“The good thing about everything being so fucked up is that no matter where you look, there is great work to be done.” OLIVER BURKEMAN **********PSA********** We Interupt the Selftape Pizza Series for An Important Announcement. If you have worked under an Equity Film and TV contract since 2019 it is likely that you are eligible to tell the powerful producers union where they can go shove their Ai. If you’ve been reading this newsletter, you know this moment has been a long time coming. Equity…

Welcome new subscribers! You guys are fucking awesome. And that’s enough of that nonsense. This is 6 figure actor. Let’s begin. A thank you + a vote! Last week I asked you if you had any charities that were important to you and a massive thank you to those who sent in theirs! In case you missed it, I will be stumbling my way through a half marathon this September and raising money for 2 charities -Maytree + Actors’ Benevolent Fund … Along with a 3rd that will be entirely 6FA reader chosen:…

6 figure actor will be running a half-marathon in September – no big deal, don’t worry about it. For three charities: Maytree (supporting those in suicidal crisis) Actors’ Benevolent Fund (actors/stage managers in need due to illness, injury or old age) and a third of your choosing. If you have a charity that you would like to put forward reply to this email with your choice. I’ve been thinking about the casting process and how effective it is for 95% of us I might have this completely wrong…

Over the course of this email I am going to ask you to sign this petition. Don’t feel you have to sign it now. Keep reading and we’ll see how you get on. It’s hard not to be angry. Angry at agents Angry at casting Angry at the industry Angry at politicians Angry at tech bros Angry at the world Angry at yourself It’s hard not to be angry. But we are told time and time again we must. Not be angry. We need to control our anger. We must be reasonable. Calm Polite. Your anger is not acceptable…

You are remarkable. What you are doing is remarkable. People go their whole lives before realising that what youre doing is what they should have been doing all along. You are doing what most humans could not. You are climbing Everest, choosing the hard path in pursuit of something bigger than yourself. Incase you need reminding You are extraordinary. Don’t forget it. A x How did you find this week’s email? LOVED IT 🌋🌋🌋 MEH 😒 This one wasn’t for me ❌