Melissa Roxburgh stands as one of network TV’s latest breakouts as lead character Michaela Stone on NBC’s twisty sci-fi mystery “Manifest.” In the video above, Roxburgh chats with Backstage about her approach to something that actors deal with on a regular basis: getting over rejection. She starts by sharing her perspective on the nature of acting as a business, before revealing her key to dealing with rejection: not taking it personally.
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