How I got my job - Actor Video Transcripts
Video 1 Transcript
I got my job by starting in elementary school school plays and then auditioning for some community theater productions and then junior high theater productions and then we decided we wanted to try film and when I say we I mean like me and my family. We got signed with a Utah film agent, got some auditions here and there. We did private acting lessons for years with a private coach and then I majored in musical theater at Weber State University and my family started a YouTube channel so now I do not only local Utah film projects but also the projects with my family and then various theater things. So the answer is there are tons of factors that happened to bring me to what my job is today.
Video 2 Transcript
How I got the job? I never showed any interest in acting until later in life. It was college, my third university actually, and my sister just randomly recommended me to a director and that director asked me to come do a play and I just thought, why not? Something new, something different, it's a challenge, let's go do it. And I remember that first connection. I remember coming out onto that stage with a live audience and that connection with the live audience, that energy, that shared experience changed me, altered me, awakened something inside of me and I was like, I got to go down this rabbit hole. So I stayed with stage for about five years and then I was told that I was built for film, which is a nice way of saying you suck on stage. So I went to film and have just absolutely been blessed with amazing experiences.
Video 3 Transcript
The way I got my job is I got on Facebook and started looking up actors in Utah. As soon as I see something, my wife said, hey, check it out, email them. So I emailed them and hey, they wanted a Santa Claus. So I got, that's how I got my first acting gig. And, you know, and plus, you know, you got to audition for some. And some you can just look out like I did and send them an email and hey, yeah, we want you. So yeah, there's different ways to do it.
Video 4 Transcript
How I got my job as an actor. I never wanted to do anything else. I tried to play sports. I was just an average athlete, which is fine. Still active in sports, but yeah, I'm not good enough to get paid for it. And, but I found I had a real talent for it, a gift for it. So yeah, I pursued it my whole life. And how I got this job, I just kept after it. I just kept pushing, I kept auditioning. I kept trying new things, doing commercials, doing voiceover work, recording novels, and of course being in films and television shows. And on and on and on, you just keep doing it. Never had any other job. Don't want any other job. And I've just been very, very persistent. That's why I've had the success I've had. And I'm not saying I'm this big success guy. I've done a lot of movies. Yeah, but so what? Anyway, that's how I do it.
Video 5 Transcript
I'm Sunshine again. How I got into this industry was, um, I actually, this was actually my first, um, love as a, as a small child. I was in dance and, uh, theater in, uh, middle school and high school and then dance in elementary and loved it. I, it was like, I was just in my world, you know, um, just creating, imagining, dreaming big and doing it and just life happened. Dang, just life happened and, um, finally got back into it in 2019 and submitted to this online thing that just said, are you creative? And I said, yes, I answered this questionnaire and, um, and my headshot and, you know, my photo and stuff. And they asked me in.
Video 6 Transcript
So I started acting because I auditioned for an improv troupe at Brigham Young University called the Guerin's Comedy Troupe, and I loved it so much. I got in, I loved it, I loved it, I loved it, and I wanted to become a better actor while doing improv, so I started studying how to be an actor, and then I started auditioning for student films, and one of my first films that I was in was with Aaron Eckhart, who you can look him up on IMDb, super mega famous actor, and that was my first experience. But really, as actors, we get jobs by auditioning for every single role. When you become mega, mega, mega famous, you don't have to audition very much, but really, I have to audition for pretty much almost every part that I get.
Video 7 Transcript
I started as a college actor mostly. I knew I wanted to be an actor when I was three years old and so I always hoped that I would have those opportunities. But I did plays in school throughout elementary and high school, nothing in junior high really. And then just from there started to get to know people and work in small little independent films and get an agent, kind of a lower tier agent that was able to get me some auditions. And little by little and piece by piece, step by step, I just started getting more and more work. And you go through phases where at a certain age you get a lot of work and then you don't and then you do again. And some of it's national and big time and other times, more often than not, it's just small local things, commercials and regional things. But I just kind of hopped from job to job and it's worked out.
Video 8 Transcript
Now, some people in the cast that I'm in on Studio C, they've wanted to be actors since they were literally three years old. I was not that person. I didn't act in high school. I did goofy videos with my friends, but never took it as a serious possibility of a profession. But I got into sketch comedy at BYU as kind of a way to escape my studies and stuff, and I just fell in love with it. I fell in love with performing live comedy in front of audiences, especially family-friendly comedy just became something I became very passionate about. And fortunately, the stars kind of aligned where we were able to take our sketch comedy group in college and parlay it into a full-time gig at BYU television. They were looking for family-friendly comedic content, and we were all about to graduate, so it just kind of came together, and I feel very, very fortunate.
Video 9 Transcript
I got on Studio C by being recommended by a friend who had seen me do stand-up one time, but the showrunner that was casting season 10, I had done background on a Disney show he had showrun for years ago and I got picked up from being background to having a name part and he remembered me from that. So just a funny chain of events and I feel really lucky that I ended up on the show.
Video 10 Transcript
You know, most times I feel like it's just dumb luck or knowing the right person at the right time on how I get a lot of my jobs, but every now and then, you know, you go into a cold audition, you read, and they bring you back for callbacks, and you go through it several times. And this one time I was auditioning for a main character in a horror film, and I got pretty far into the audition process before I got word that the production was going to film in a different state, and so they were no longer considering me for the role. So I reached out, I hunted down the director, I think on Facebook, and I messaged him, and I was like, hey man, I will drive to that state for this role and sleep in my car. And I got the job because of that tenacity, and I did So, you know, sometimes it's luck, sometimes it's just stalking people. I don't know.
Video 11 Transcript
I got my job and the job of being an actor much later in life. I got it in 2007 after a lifetime of always wanting to be an actor and dreaming about it as a kid but never had the courage to do it. But I was doing a story, I'm a writer as well, I was doing a story on the new artistic director at Trinity Repertory Company in Providence and I attended a bunch of plays which I had not done a lot in my life and I was just overwhelmed by the electric energy, the power, the immediacy of theatrical acting. So I went back home to a small community theater where my girlfriend lives, where I live, and got the lead in a play called Later Life. How fitting is that? And it was amazing. I got out on stage and I saw the audience and the butterflies went away so that I should have been doing this my whole life. So that's how I got my job. It just came to it late in the game but better late than never. Never give up, never lose sight of the dream.
