RANDOM BLURB in Book Eleven: Whatever Will Be Will Be 2024
- Sept. 30, 2024, 9:25 p.m.
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Full entry upcoming, as ever, but… theater… acting… is such a weird experience.
People with Julliard Backgrounds struggling to be more than just “Dude in Commercial”.
Actors like D.B. Woodside with full on MFA degrees from prestigious schools barely able to break out of “recurring character in a sitcom” status.
But then you have things like David Boreanaz. Graduated from Ithaca college… struggled for 5 years to get any solid work. Then, walking his dog one day, a casting director’s friend saw him and called to get him cast as Angel.
Or Scott Wolf, best known for Party of Five, who went to the PO5 audition with a friend who was auditioning and decided he would, too.
Hell, Mark Hamill is absolutely beloved King of the Nerds but… have you seen his Actor Advertisement before Star Wars defined him? And even then… his career in the 1980s? Even into some of the 1990s?
This is a crazy and difficult industry. Very little logic. Desperate need for thick skin. Absolutely necessary to have luck on your side. I love the little acting I’m able to do when I can. I do think if the brain I have now could be in the young man I was 20 years ago… I probably would have given the Acting as Career a lot more effort. I know Hermia persistently says that I could easily do professional voice acting- I just need to get the right recording set up and give it a shot. Meanwhile, or for now, I’m just… hoping I can pull off Ensemble for Beauty and the Beast.
Amaryllis ⋅ September 30, 2024
I could see you as a voice actor. When I was younger I used to think, 'people need to be practical. People need a plan.' It was my mom's critical, judgmental, harsh voice coming from my own head. If I could do it again, I'd say the 20's are for dreaming and I should have gone for all of my wildest dreams :)
Rhapsody in Purple ⋅ October 06, 2024
I saw Jennifer Hale at a con who was talking about getting into voice acting. I believe she had a school for it of I remember correctly. It sounds like an interesting area. I could see you doing it. Could be worth exploring.