Pretend Actors & Real Actors
We have been working with actors for many years. Together we’ve help make feature films and short films, TV series and adverts, corporate role plays and voiceovers.
We’ve also cast films, directed films, and been involved in virtually all aspects of film making.
And the more we work and the more castings & auditions we see, the more we realise that actors can be divided into two simple groups:
- Pretend actors
- Real actors
Quite simply, the pretend actors don’t work – or if they do it’s because they’ve been very lucky. Pretend actors don’t take the job seriously. They talk about being an actor and they go to the parties and they bitch about casting directors and they name drop famous people (and often bitch about them too).
But at the end of the day they are pretend actors. They don’t have to learn lines because they don’t get jobs. And because they don’t work, they spend their time complaining about the industry and telling anyone who will listen how it is all fixed and how it’s impossible to break into acting without sleeping with the right person or being related to someone on the inside and so on.
But as we always say, these people aren’t proper actors and most of them disappear into “normal” jobs sooner or later quite simply because there are real actors out there who get all the work.
While the pretend actors are waiting by the telephone for the call from Michael Bay which will never come, the real actors are online searching out casting notices, or they are talking to other actors and sharing ideas, or they are making films!
The pretend actors wait for work to come their way. The real actors go out and find work.
But the major thing to remember here is that the difference between these two types of actors is not massive at all and has nothing to do with skill or talent or looks.
Simply put, the difference between pretend actors and real actors is one of attitude and effort.
The pretend actor wants the glory without the work and so they will never get either. The real actor knows that there is a lot of effort to put in before the performance and they are happy to make that effort.
So, what you need to do here and now (and I mean right here and right now) is learn how to become a real actor and do your job professionally and properly – and that’s what enCAST is all about!
