You may have invested a lot of energy, time, and money in your acting career. And yet, you might not be booking. The frustration and pain can be so overwhelming that you might consider quitting.
You have probably tried numerous acting classes, casting director workshops, coaches, and acting books, etc., and still, the results remain unchanged.
However, this is actually great news because it provides feedback. It's showing you what's inside of you: you want to act, you're doing everything you’re supposed to, and yet you're still not booking. Therefore, you need to reconsider the way you are presenting yourself in your career. If you continue doing the same things, you will stay comfortable, but it won't lead you to where you want to go. You’re stuck in a loop, trying harder and harder without making any progress.
Also, your job description involves bringing a character to life. For that, you need to be completely alive and free. Thus, you must take care of your aliveness and freedom. Once you can show up fully present, alive, open, and truthful, people can connect with you because you can feel yourself.
When you watch my training below you will discover that for this connection, you don’t need to learn any new acting methods or techniques. All you need is to be unleashed. However, you've been conditioned not to be so. As a child, you were told to shut up, be quiet, sit down, and stop crying. In other words, you were taught how to do things “right” and look “good” for external validation. Otherwise, you risked being blamed or punished.
As an adult actor, you carry that conditioning with you. So, when you have an audition, you try to perform the scene “right” and look “confident” to please the casting director or director. But the moment you do this, you stop being free, open, unique, and present. You appear blocked, tense, resistant, etc.
All you need to do is work through all the blocks, tension, anxiety, and self-doubt that cause your instrument to shrink when you audition, tape, or act on set so you can return to the free and full version of yourself.
Watch my training below to hear all my thoughts on this topic.
After you watch the training, I'd love for you to join in the conversation happening in our private Facebook Group THE INSTINCTIVE ACTORS' SOCIETY. You can get answers for your specific situation directly from me and connect with THOUSANDS of like-minded actors across the globe, so we can move things forward faster together.
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See you there!
Jo Kelly
Creator, The Reset Journey From Resistance to Freedom
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