Least favorite aspects - Actor Video Transcripts
Video 1 Transcript
My least favorite parts of being an actor is the audition. Oh man, I can't even tell you how many hundreds of auditions I have done in my lifetime, probably in the thousands at this point. I've been acting since I was five and I've done more auditions than I can even count. I am tired of auditioning. Don't get me wrong, I love acting, I love telling stories, but I've moved into a point in my career now where I am also the storyteller. So I'm now writing, I'm producing, I'm creating my own stories so that I don't always have to be auditioning and waiting to be chosen for the rest of my life. I want to choose myself and I want to tell the stories I want to tell. So that is probably my least favorite thing about acting is that you have to keep auditioning and you have to keep waiting to be chosen. But in my opinion, the way around that is to tell your story and to choose yourself and create what you want to see in the world.
Video 2 Transcript
My least favorite aspect is I have to do a lot of auditions in order to get a part. I wish that weren't true, but it is. You have to do a lot of auditions to get a part and sometimes you won't get it and they will never let you know if you didn't get the part. You just have to wait and wonder.
Video 3 Transcript
My least favorite thing about it is the amount of rejection you have to get used to. And I've reframed that a lot. You have to have a good attitude about what it takes to go through an audition and not get cast. But when you give it your all, no matter what, you're going to enjoy the performance even if you don't get cast.
Video 4 Transcript
You can't really complain with this job. It's great and you should just be grateful. But of course there are things that you're not going to prefer. I think the in-between jobs part is everyone's least favorite aspect. The necessity of constantly auditioning, uh, least favorite. Personally, uh, I don't know if this is everyone's experience, but I, I almost never see that there's an available audition until after it's due. Like they give you such tiny short windows so often. So I mean, if you're making movies out there, please give your actors more time to look, you know, you've been doing pre-production for how long and you only give like, Oh, this is due by 9am tomorrow. And like, I guess check your email. That's what I'm saying more often than me.
Video 5 Transcript
One of my least favorite aspects, I guess, is having to wait. Being so excited about a project that you worked on, it came to life. You met amazing people, actors, actresses, hairstylists, makeup artists, directors, other actors, and then you have to wait. Obviously, you have to wait for the editing, but sometimes the editing can take so long. A year, two years, some projects take three, four years to finally finish the editing. And there's a lot of things that go into it, but that's one of my least favorite things is waiting to see it all come together in the finished product, you know, on screen. But yeah, I mean, it's part of it, though. You got to get it finished and all put together and polished up, and then you can finally see it shine.
Video 6 Transcript
Hands down my least favorite aspect of the job is auditioning. Auditioning, it's how you get the jobs, but it's also no fun. It's scary. You feel very judged. You don't ever get to give like your best performance because you're usually given the sides and you have a day at most to to memorize, to prepare, and to give them something. So a lot of it is so superficial. They're just looking at like, okay, what does this actor sound like? What do they look like? Maybe we'll give them a director, a tip, some direction to see, can they receive direction? You don't get that chance to really build a character fully and then show what you can do. And so some people love auditioning and are natural auditioners. I am horrible at auditioning.
