A Little Bit of This… A Little Bit of That…
As we head into the holiday season, here's a gift grab bag covering concerns that Back Stage readers have expressed to me either through letters or in person.
Commercial
- Advice
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How do you handle embarrassing, insulting, or just plain odd direction? Do you do it, however unlikely the commercial will be shot that way? Or do you think, "I'm not playing along with this crap!" and refuse?
- Advice
"The talent's acting job is to convince the clients that they believe in and use the product and just happen to be an actor, rather than an actor playing a role."
- Advice
Just like fashion and car design, commercial styles have changed over the decades. And since 1953, the year of the first Screen Actors Guild commercials contract, actors have been adapting.
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With so many elements of our lives in other people's hands-agents, casting directors, producers, directors-it's easy to feel as if we have little control over our careers. But there is one place we have much more control than we imagine: the audition room.
- Advice
"I can knock 10 years off anyone still playing teens. I used to call myself America's oldest teenager," says actor and standup comic Gina Rodgers.
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Bobcat Goldthwait Just Wants to Direct (Commercials)
Bobcat Goldthwait is probably known as "that Police Academy guy." It's somewhat of a surprise to learn that Goldthwait has also directed the commercials, including the one that announcing Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 Web browser.
