Hi guys, Today I'm gonna talk about a Netflix event I went to it was incredible, they gave
us a wealth of information, in little gems and I'm gonna share some of those key points
with you.
If you're an actor and you'd like one day to work on a huge Netflix productions,
then this is definitely for you okay, so nowadays there's this concept or there's this title
called 'Netflix Fame', now what people think is that these people that, these actors
they see performing on these big shows on Netflix Have just come out of nowhere and
then boom, but the reality is that most of these actors have been working actors for
a number if years, they've been in a lot of small roles, you know, doing a range of
different things you just haven't seen them yet.
So They get this opportunity they book the job and then boom they're career takes off
and they get flung into the limelight but I do need to be clear this is not something
that happens overnight, this is years and years and years of preparation of training
and of focus.
For you to have a chance of even be you know competing in this arena you need to make sure
you have your Mindset correct, you need to make sure you have your Training and that
you are prepared, you need to have an extremely professional team around you, who are all
working with you to get you to that place where you are good enough to compete with
the other actors that will be going for this role.
So in your team you need an incredible, a coach, a personal trainer, a nutritionist,
a photographer, an incredible agent, an incredible manager, you need these as a base line as
a minimum, like these are the people who are going to help form you into the product that
you need to be, erm, you know, to be able to be within a chance, to be within the running,
do you know what I mean.
As an actor you need to see yourself as a business, your body is your temple, and your
body is basically what you are selling, you know, are the instrument you need to be eating
right you need to be working out, you need to be doing all of your vocal exercises Every
single day, you need to be cold reading every single day, you need to be acting with others,
you need to be playing, you need to be observing people in the community going to different
places, watching human behaviours, It helps if your somebody's who is naturally inquisitive
and you naturally like to hear different peoples stories regardless of race of class and that
your naturally inquisitive then that will definitely help because You need to be able
to, be able to step into someone else's shoes, and that Is no easy thing if Your own
perspective, you need to be able to see things from a range of different perspectives.So
let me just throw out some facts out there, just to make, just to make you aware, so you
know if your planning on coming out to LA and you wanna work in the film industry you
need to know realistically what your looking at and who your competing with.
So right now today there are 175 thousand SAG actors only 5% of those make $5,000 a
year, I said a year, 5% of those, so that's not even looking at the people who are SAG-eligible
or non-Sag, were just looking at the SAG actors.
So how are you going to be somebody within that 5% out of 175,000 people And you don't
want to be in the 5% that is only managing to make the 5,000 a year because that means
you still need a range of different side hustles and different jobs to be able to survive out
here.
It's a very expensive place to live, you need to be somebody that is trained, somebody
who has that team of people around you that I just referred to, just earlier just now,
Somebody that is mentally prepared Your mindset has got to be in the right place, you can
not get distracted by anything, you need to know what your goals is you need to have a
very clear vision and you need to know Small steps to take to get there, you need to be
always running towards that goal every single day, you need to be tenacious and focused.
Okay, So if we look at the acting community here in LA, there are basically three tires
of actors, the first tier, like, The biggest group of actors in LA is called the 'Crowd'
so that consists of people who call themselves actors, they may not have had training, they
may not have been in any productions, whether that be erm indie films, Short films, commercials,
Promo, erm It largely consists of a group of people who are dreamers, they hope a lot,
they have a lot of nice ideas for themselves, they hope to be Lucky they use terms like
that.
It is very unrealistic that your gonna land in LA and be luckily enough to book A series
regular or a co-star on a TV show just out of luck, that is like, it does happen, but
that's like 1 in a million seriously, so you need to look at working your way out that
first tier to the second tier.
Now the second tier is the 'Crowd' in the second tier you have actors who do have
training and who do know where they want to go.
You have people who now who have started to book roles, you know, they they they know
who they are, they know what roles they can play.
They have a very good understanding of their branding, they Very good understanding of
the industry they're on their game, Now if you can get into that second tier where
your competing, you know where your you know, where your in the 'crowd' section then
that Is Fantastic because the amount of people in the crowd section is a lot less to the
amount of people who are in the 'clutter' section, Which is the majority of people in
LA you know, There is a reason why people say that a lot of the actors in LA are very
flaky, and that's because a lot of them are in love with the idea of being an actor
and all of the perks of that, but they are quite unaware of the realities and they may
not be willing to put in the hard work, dedication and years of sacrifice that it takes to make
it.
So once you get into the third tier, which is the 'competition', then that's when
its on, the people in the competition are the People who are known not just by people
on their social media followings or on there you know, not just popular in their social
circle but people who are known by the people who have power in the industry, you know,
main casting houses, the main producers, People where you know, you can say your name anywhere
in the world and they will know who you are because you've had roles and you've been
working and you've shown that you are a talented actor who can do a you know a plethora
of things and you know, Once you're in that category then you're in the right track,
because people who get booked on Netflix series for example have to be able to work on a Two
to one ratio shooting when on set What I mean by that is, they will film a scene twice and
then that's it done, your on to the next scene, they will film it twice as a maximum
so That means you have to be point because you have to have the lines, the character
down, the blocking down, Everything has to be on point within those first two shoots
of what your doing then its on to the next.
So, for example I know somebody who was fortunate to get, to get that far in the process, they
had been through several auditions, you know, it had not been easy it had been very tough,
Set tapes they'd done all of that stuff, they'd met, they'd met the producers,
they'd sold themselves, They had shown that as far as auditioning was concerned they had
it a hundred percent nailed in the bag because Auditioning is a separate skill within itself,
and I do recommend that that you take auditioning classes, as well as the on camera technique
classes and as well as the scene study.
Right, so, erm, to go back to my story, the person I'm talking about, they they they
booked a job on a Neflix series they were very excited, they were supposed to be there
for the whole week, on that day they were abit you know It's It's it's a lot of
pressure especially if it's your first time, to be you know under the spotlight, you've
got the whole cast and crew, you've got, you're Working alongside actors that you
know that you've seen in other productions, so it's a lot of pressure For you to bring
it.
So once or twice they might have stumbled on the lines, they might have had to refilm
there parts more than the two times the director would have wanted, What happened was half
way through the day, my friend got approached by the director who said "hey you've been
great today, we actually have everything that we need from you today You can leave early",
my friend was like "oh okay well I've been booked right until the end of this day,
you know, I don't mind hanging around", they were like, "No no no, you're done
for today, we've got what we need from you, were gonna start to shoot other scenes now
with other actors, so you know Thank you very much for your work, I'll see you tomorrow,
goodbye".
My friend had just been fired, and was not even aware of it at that point, the penny
had not dropped because it was done in such a polite professional way, but what had happened
is they had thought this actor is this actor needs too much work, This actor is slowing
down the whole rest of the production, there is too much money resting on this, time is
money, we don't have time to keep reshooting, to keep asking you for adjustments to keep
explaining to you what we want for this character.
If you're not coming prepared, very easily replaced like I say there's another there's
another 174, 75,00 people you know who can replace you so, You do need to be on point,
erm another thing you will need is your momentum, so do come with game plan, do come with a
career plan, do know exactly what you want, you know, Exactly what you're working towards
Short term and long term and do stick with that and if you've got somebody or a team
or people that are making you Accountable then that might be very helpful for you because
another that happens is that People arrive in LA and they hit the ground running, they're
passionate, they're determined they're hard working they're going for it, they're
going to all of the networking events, they're going to classes, they're meeting with different
people And then after six months, things start slowing down things start slowing down, they
start realising hey you know, kinda gotta work a little bit more than I expected or
I might wanna do things socially, they start losing track and For you to be successful
here especially if you a want to work in a in a Netflix production or if you wanna work
On TV In the US, then you have to be, like, you have to be like, you've got to get into
this pool with all of the fish and you've gotta stay in the tank, you cant be somebody
who is dipping your toe in the water and dipping out, you cant be doing it sometimes ,You can't
be half arsed, your just not gonna get anywhere, The competition is too strong and there are
too many other people that are busting their ass day in, day out, okay.
I hope that it's been helpful for you, if it has been helpful do comment in the box
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