Let go of the expectations of others... especially at the dinner table.
Nov 18, 2019
I get it, it sucks. When your acting career has no momentum, and everyone else in your family has an MBA, 2.5 kids, a picket fence, and a house.
While that may be what some call the American dream, the dream for an actor looks very, very different.
We love the highs, not so much the lows… We love something new every day, we love change, we love reading new stories and being a part of them.
But when we get to Thanksgiving dinner and our mom asks us why we’re still taking acting classes or when we’re going to get a real job… we’ve got to have something to combat it with.
One idea is to talk about the most recent thing that you’ve done in your career. Maybe it’s an amazing scene that you worked on in class, maybe it’s filming a scene for your new demo reel, maybe it’s going to a casting director workshop and building a relationship with them…
Ultimately, we don’t owe anyone...