One of my biggest pet peeves as an agent was how clueless many actors were about auditions. Or specifically, that they had no idea about the kinds of roles they should or shouldn’t be auditioning for. Actors would come in with a copy of the breakdown for a big studio film shooting in the area and point out a role they thought they were “perfect” for. Then would come fifty questions wondering if we had submitted them for the job, how could they get the casting director to meet with them (because of course if the casting director saw them in person they would KNOW that they were right for the role), and what sort of money they would get from the gig. They had actually mentally cast themselves as a Hollywood star–but some of these actors hadn’t even booked a paid acting gig before! I mean, it’s great to have big dreams and aspirations, but you need to have a realistic plan for getting there. Would you try out to be an NFL quarterback if you were a scrawny kid that had never even played football? Of course not! But for some reason, actors do this sort of thing all the time. Of course, the vast majority of these actors end up very disappointed when they don’t get the role, or even an audition. Then they get frustrated about the constant rejection, and many end up leaving the business altogether. What these actors don’t realize is that they have really done this to themselves. It’s not necessarily that they didn’t have the talent to take on these roles, but they were auditioning for the wrong role at the wrong stage of their career. Want to know one of the biggest “secrets” of acting that most people get wrong? *Read the rest of this article at Gorilla Film School <http://gorillafilmschool.com/why-you-bombed-that-audition-before-it-began/>*