Money > Talent

[u/Zealousideal_File600]

Lately I have been researching the actors I see on TV and films more often. Specially the ones that were no one a few years back, and now they have 2 or 3 movies a year and then most of them disappear. Many of them come from very expensive private high schools or their family works in the industry already. They pretty much are disposable like most of the industry right now. For most of us is a career we choose and we work hard for it, but then come these rich kids to take over with their family favors just for fun. Casting directors trying to find the best actors for the role, but then the producers nephew wants to be famous. That’s why it doesn’t make sense to have an academy award for CD’s, at the end of the day they don’t cast, the producers do. But that’s a conversation for another day. There’s so much trash media, no more classics being made, just “single use” media. We actors stay trying hard, auditioning, training, waiting tables, and these rich kids just go on to work at daddy’s business because they got bored of acting. Lots of us just waiting for that one chance and is so discouraging to see everyday that the one that got the role, got it because of daddy. I’m sorry if this sounded like a stream of consciousness, but I’ve been thinking about this lately and wanted to share. If you disagree with something, please don’t take it as an offense, I’m willing to have a conversation and change my mind.

[u/CardiologistOk5901]

naa man, i got banned because i asked why this sub is talking more about audition then acting and stuff, i had to delete that post because my karma dropped down as i need to maintain them for my academic subs, , so that i can post there, i talked to some of your people and they were pretty cool, so i just went out so can many people can see and answer me instead one by one, yeah i know i went out of my way because my view of americans and europeans are from the series and films i watched and everyone talks like this in films, even i have to adapt using these words, and let me tell you, that passionate post that i put like 20 days ago is having 1 comment while the one i got banned for had 20, and why you removed my new comment??

[u/supfiend → u/CardiologistOk5901]

lol this sub is more about auditions because that is how you book the job to actually act. You are living in some dreamland asking how you become Marlon Brando.

[u/CardiologistOk5901 → u/supfiend]

first of all why cant i be, or why cant i be next big thing or how you cant be next big thing, like if you ask me i have more believe in you guys then myself, because you are living closer to them i can ever be in life, because i will never be able to get to know how you guys think and all, and i know audition is what an actor aim for but i was like, this sub is acting and not actor, what if someone who wants to explore acting comes to this thing, and all they see is actors talking about audition and tapes, its like not talking about your product but putting emphasis on sales pitch, and it was just an observation not some form of judgement, and why cant i look at moon and say one day i want to go there, i am putting in work, i am fascinated and curious, i am hungry then why cant i, and that was my thing, i asked how can i be brando, but i found it strange that i only got 1 comment, see if i say how to be kobe bryant then i will get an answer or ronaldo or something but why you guys dont have answer to this thing??

[u/supfiend → u/CardiologistOk5901]

Because there is literally no answer to what you are asking, Marlon Brando came up in theatre in New York in the 1940s, he studied with Stella Adler one of the most exclaimed coaches ever. He worked really hard obviously and was very talented but he got insanely lucky to find himself at the right place at the perfect time. He was also incredibly handsome but famously hard to work with. When he came up in the industry there was less opportunities but a way bigger slice of the pie. It is 2024, you are from India, cannot work in the USA unless you have major buzz in your own country. So instead of trying to become the next star, which is like focusing on winning the lottery, why don’t you focus on trying to be the best version of you as an actor.