September 1, 2024 • 17 mins
Welcome to "Making It Happen: A Career in the Performing Arts," where host Leesa Csolak, CEO and founder of Makin' It Happen, delves into strategies for breaking into the performing arts industry. This episode features a conversation with Anthony Meindl, renowned acting coach and founder of Anthony Meindl's Actor Workshop.
Anthony shares his insights on the importance of passion, perseverance, and the evolving nature of acting. He emphasizes the need for continuous learning and adapting, whether you are a young performer or an adult entering the industry. Leesa and Anthony discuss the significance of letting children lead their journey in the arts and how parental support should foster rather than pressure.
Discover how Anthony’s global schools operate and the core philosophy that guides his teaching. This episode is packed with valuable advice for parents, young actors, and adults looking to thrive in the performing arts. Tune in to learn how to navigate the challenges of this dynamic field and find joy in the process.
For more resources, visit lbctalent.com and connect with Anthony at anthonymeindle.com.
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(00:00):
I mean, I always feel like networking is a word that we don't really understand.
I mean, it's fine. Go out and go to a party or go to a mixer somewhere, you know, go to a club.
She just had videos of her choreography with her friends, like these content.
Do you know what I mean? These concept, excuse me, concept videos that she put up.
I think if young people have access to getting brand deals, you utilize that to have money.
(00:27):
Music.
Welcome to Making It Happen, a career in the performing arts where we discuss
how to break into the performing arts industry for yourself or your child, teen, or young adult.
Guests include professionals who are passionate and share my vision of helping
talented individuals land professional representation and have successful careers in the arts.
(00:52):
My name is Lisa Solek and I am the CEO and founder of Making It Happen,
a career in the performing arts, having helped hundreds of clients,
break into the performing arts business on stage, in films, television,
commercial work, and more.
This podcast is supplemental to my groundbreaking online courses.
For more information, check out all the ways you can benefit from my courses,
(01:13):
my how-to videos, live webinars, in-person seminars, and free guides. Go to lbctalent.com.
My guest today is Anthony Meindel.
A lot of the Broadway people, when they're young,
when they're in high school, junior high they're they're dreaming
of the the dream role and to be quite honest my
students that i worked with because i had this the performing arts
(01:33):
school with the acting singing dancing we did all of it acting for film and
tv we did all that and the focus was never there you know and you if you asked
any of my kids any of my clients once they've worked with me for a time period
you know what's your dream role they don't know they're just they're they're
doing the work because they love the work.
It wasn't about like, you know, kind of putting this, this goal of the,
(01:56):
you know, the golden hat castle on the hill of Broadway and being able to play the said role.
You know, I agree totally with what you're saying. So you have these schools
all over the world. I was so impressed.
So impressed. That is amazing. And congratulations on finding your niche and
being able to be doing what you love to do.
(02:17):
But let's, because I don't want to not get to this, can you talk about your
school, what the philosophy is there,
your teachers, if you have other teachers, just give us a whole kind of rundown
about how and what it is that you're doing so people can kind of reach out if
they have that kind of interest and they're in need.
(02:38):
Cool. I mean, I'll just start off with, we have, you know, some of the best
teachers I think in the world, all of our schools, a lot of the world. So I feel very blessed.
You know, a lot of times like I'm going to our New York school this week and
I just pop in and I do an intensive, but you know, the, the teachers there are
working with the students week in and week out.
And so all the schools all over the world work that way. So there may be a school near you.
(02:59):
So if any of your listeners are, you know, I don't have a school in like Des Moines, Iowa.
So sorry. Sometimes I get a dm like hey do you have a school and
blah blah blah i'm like sorry no i don't but yeah so and
i think it just came out of my philosophy of trying to
help actors again understand that it
doesn't have to be so heady it isn't so thought out in terms of of a controlling
(03:24):
kind of playing your idea of something because life i just i believe that acting
is a subset that lives within life And so the same rules that apply in life apply in our acting.
It's fiction because we know we're acting, but it's still taking place in the
moment to moment this of an experience with another human being,
which happens to be you, like this podcast is an example, happens to be me.
(03:48):
I may be playing the character of Bill, but it's still me.
And you and I are then engaged in the circumstances written by a writer.
And our job is to do that without judging or filtering or editing.
In and so yeah that already is radically
different and i think very freeing to
understand like whoa it's it's about me i
(04:11):
have something to contribute and i
think you know lisa when i started i felt like i was
such an outlier and i started with like six students nobody was talking really
about acting this way that i knew of especially in hollywood i think in europe
probably but And now I'm finding that more and more actors and even old school
teachers talk about acting more and more this way.
(04:34):
And I just think, I think like all things, our understanding of things must evolve.
We have to keep, we're not driving horse and buggies anymore.
You know what I mean? Or we're hopefully all driving electric vehicles.
Things have to, you have to adapt and evolve. and our thinking around constructs
need to ascend, I think. And so I've always been...
(04:58):
I'm more interested in the human potential aspect of teaching because I think
the big misnomer is a parent is going to help their teen or child actor get
a job and then they're going to get a little bit older and then maybe acting
won't have the same joy it had for them.
Or I'm working with a young adult and they book a job
and then the show is over and then they don't have
(05:20):
self-worth and self-love because all
their meaning was tied up to being on on
a hit show and now they haven't worked for four years yeah and i
think these are the real real yes challenges
we should be talking about in class rather than just becoming famous so that's
what i've been passionate about like i want people to do well and i've had so
(05:41):
many famous clients so it's not but i think we can't be taught that our happiness
is in something else it's in us it's in
the expression of being who we are. Absolutely. Absolutely.
Yeah. And I find too, when I'm working with, with the clients that many times they need the teacher,
(06:04):
the, the mentor to give them the confidence that that is true because they have
this misconception that they have to attain said goals to be worthwhile, which can be sad.
So we, you know what I mean? like I like to live in that space of giving them
the confidence to say, I am good enough and I can, I can go in whatever direction
(06:31):
I need to go in and make this work for me.
And I'm going to be happy because that's the end game really to be happy with what you're doing.
That's right. It's crazy. It's crazy. So with the school.
Do you offer virtual classes or is it only, like, where are you?
And I also would love to know, sorry, two-part question.
(06:52):
I also would love to know what age groups you offer as well and how people can,
I'm going to make it a three-part.
Okay. How people can get in touch. Fine, yeah, okay.
So we do have, I think, a couple courses still online.
And I think all that's on the website. I don't teach it online. and
you know obviously during covid we were all online
(07:14):
but yeah you know everything is but i think because
of our internationalness sometimes and and
people wanting to study this from all over the world we do have like let's
say our cape town teacher might be teaching a class that because she's based
in cape town online works for most people in other regions all around the world
so we do offer yeah it's kind of cool so like somebody in japan could be taking
(07:37):
the class because it works at the right time in her time zone.
So that's the first thing. The second thing is, you know, well, we work with all levels.
We're restructuring right now our kids program.
Which I'm really excited about because one of our kids teachers,
who's a big casting director, she, post-COVID, has moved out of California and
(07:59):
works remotely somewhere else,
which is great for her, but she was instrumental and part of the program.
So we're redeveloping it and I'm excited. Hopefully we're going to be launching it again soon.
But you know i work we work with all levels and
you can find me anywhere like you know
you can go to our website anthonymeindle.com i'm on
instagram you know so yeah i think youtube but yeah i want to ask you two more
(08:24):
questions okay you're developing your youth program yes and so if you If you
had advice for a parent with a child,
a teen that's singing all over the house, pretending that they're a character from a movie.
I mean, you know, my oldest son would jump out of the bathroom in his underwear
(08:47):
and start to be like the mask, you know what I mean? Right, right,
right. From the old movie.
You know, and he knew all the lines.
You know, like what's your perception of what they should be thinking? Like when is it right?
Or maybe what are your thoughts about determining readiness in a child or teen?
Do you have any thoughts there? That's great. Yeah, I do.
(09:08):
I mean, listen, I'm known for having taught so many young performers who have
now become quite famous adults, right? And yeah.
And I worked with them in their teenage years.
And I think the two things that pop out is I think it's just really important
that the youthful person, the young adult, the kid really wants to do it,
(09:33):
that there's no parental pressure.
I know it's hard. Parents just breathe. You can't live your dreams through the child.
And I'm not a parent. So I'm not judging because I know being a parent is so hard.
And it's thank God we have parents because we're all here because of parents.
So it's a beautiful, beautiful thing.
But I think there's sometimes parents who really push their children into something
(09:59):
that maybe they just love to do it on the weekends, but don't really want to
do it based on the metrics that a parent wants them to do it.
So that would be my first thing. and the second thing is
is if they do do it and they show an affinity toward it let
them show you what it wants to be and here's
my two philosophies about it i think acting for
(10:20):
kids first of all the training needs to be just supporting
them being who they are because all kids are ever going to do while their kids
is play themselves they're not going to be playing the 80 year old version of
themselves acting training for youth needs to be look your teenage your 15 year
old girl is going going to play the 15 or 14 or 16 year old girl as the daughter in the movie.
(10:40):
So she's playing the permutation of herself.
So she doesn't need to learn how to act koala.
She just needs to learn how to be less reserved about parts of herself or himself, right?
So that's the first thing. Also, I think.
The shelf life for actors, even though it's a young medium, I want us to remember
(11:04):
for parents, I think they have stars in their eyes because of freaking Disney and a Disney show.
But the odds of somebody being on a Mickey Mouse show, like Zendaya, good for her.
And she's parlayed into something really incredible. But you don't just want
(11:25):
your child to end up on a kid's program that they then outgrow and never work again.
You have to think the long game.
And so there have been so many troubled kid actors because they were on a show
that then defined them as kids and they weren't able to move beyond that.
(11:46):
So it's okay for young performers to be on kid shows. There's nothing wrong
with it. It's great. It can pay for their college education.
It's a beautiful thing. I just don't want all of the parental eggs to go in
that basket that that then means they're going to be the next Academy Award
winner or have a huge HBO show.
Right. I think, again, you have to let...
(12:07):
The child's own curiosity lead yeah
yeah it's so important as you know because you're an amazing parent lisa like
kevin was figuring himself out and he has figured out his own journey and has
been very successful and i'm sure inside you're like oh no don't go in the business
but then you were like supporting him in him figuring it out that's why he's
(12:28):
a well-adjusted successful but
also just great kid. He's a good guy. He was a great kid.
So that's important. Yes. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. Well, that's another, Oh my gosh. We could.
Oh, please. Yeah. Well just, yeah. Right.
Yeah. I just think parents get a little too thing to like what you were saying
(12:52):
about just being a good human being.
And when, once you get on a project, I had thought about asking you this,
but you know, you're kind of brought it up here.
Once you get on a project or even when you're in the audition space and you're
going through the process of all of the, you know, the audition,
the callback, the chemistry, you have to be a good person.
You have to be someone that they want to work with.
(13:14):
There's that human piece of it that and so many beginner actors,
singer dancers have a hard time with that. They get so overwhelmed.
And I'm so glad that you said that. It is you're hiring the personality.
Out like a person you're going to be spending 12 hours on set every day
maybe for three months or whatever you want to hire somebody who's fun
easy to work with no egos also that speaks
(13:36):
to because we're talking about parents if they are minors or
they're not emancipated or a legal 18 yet
yeah the parents i have a lot of stories with casting with producers directors
they sometimes will not hire the young performer if they get a whiff that the
parent is a lot to deal with yes and i've seen And you understand that parents
(13:58):
are protective as you should be.
And, and, and, but, but, but you just, you've just got to like, let, let the child lead.
Yeah, exactly. Let the, that is the best advice.
Let the child lead, let the child do their thing because they're the one who has to do the work.
They're the one who has to be, you know, passionate enough about it to,
(14:18):
to be on set for those kind of hours and do that type of thing. Okay. That was amazing.
I agree with everything you said, everything you said. All right.
Young adult coming out of college.
Advice? I think you have to keep studying and training because chances are you're
going to have to retrain everything.
I hate to say it, but it's true because it's a very academic setting generally.
And I think getting out in the real world is just a different animal and kind
(14:43):
of working a different aspect of yourself.
Also, I think what's important about training, whether you're on set or you're
doing your own stuff or you're doing a play or you're in a different program,
who you are at 18 is not who you're going to be at 24 and certainly not at 34.
For. So you have to keep working.
Your whole gestalt is changing. So you cannot expect to be the same actor you were when you were 18.
(15:06):
Really good. That's why people's careers don't continue. I'm convinced of it
because they're not willing.
I get it. It's scary, but you've got to explore. I'm a new person.
I've got to figure myself out. Yeah. Well, your type changes.
Yeah, that's right. Your type changes. And you, and you have,
and I think like what I do with in my courses is I teach parents and adults
and the adult, cause I have two courses, one for parents, one for adults.
(15:29):
And I teach how this industry works from the inside out so that once they understand
that, then they're going to make better decisions and they're going to understand.
So if you are, like you're saying, if you're this, you know,
amazingly fit, you know, young adult male, and then as you get a little bit
older, your type is going to change in various ways.
Same thing for women, obviously you have to embrace that because who is hiring
(15:53):
you? It's their project.
It's who they need in that moment to make that project successful.
And you can't live in that other space. So both really great points that you
made, you know, about that.
Interesting. I love it. Keep training, keep training, keep learning, keep being curious.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I love it. Thank you. This has been so much for having me. Oh, please.
(16:15):
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Music.
I mean, I always feel like networking is a word that we don't really understand.
I mean, it's fine. Go out and go to a party or go to a mixer somewhere, you know, go to a club.
She just had videos of her choreography with her friends, like these content.
Do you know what I mean? These concept, excuse me, concept videos that she put up.
I think if young people have access to getting brand deals, you utilize that to have money.
(00:27):
Music.
Welcome to Making It Happen, a career in the performing arts where we discuss
how to break into the performing arts industry for yourself or your child, teen, or young adult.
Guests include professionals who are passionate and share my vision of helping
talented individuals land professional representation and have successful careers in the arts.
(00:52):
My name is Lisa Solek and I am the CEO and founder of Making It Happen,
a career in the performing arts, having helped hundreds of clients,
break into the performing arts business on stage, in films, television,
commercial work, and more.
This podcast is supplemental to my groundbreaking online courses.
For more information, check out all the ways you can benefit from my courses,
(01:13):
my how-to videos, live webinars, in-person seminars, and free guides. Go to lbctalent.com.
My guest today is Anthony Meindel.
A lot of the Broadway people, when they're young,
when they're in high school, junior high they're they're dreaming
of the the dream role and to be quite honest my
students that i worked with because i had this the performing arts
(01:33):
school with the acting singing dancing we did all of it acting for film and
tv we did all that and the focus was never there you know and you if you asked
any of my kids any of my clients once they've worked with me for a time period
you know what's your dream role they don't know they're just they're they're
doing the work because they love the work.
It wasn't about like, you know, kind of putting this, this goal of the,
(01:56):
you know, the golden hat castle on the hill of Broadway and being able to play the said role.
You know, I agree totally with what you're saying. So you have these schools
all over the world. I was so impressed.
So impressed. That is amazing. And congratulations on finding your niche and
being able to be doing what you love to do.
(02:17):
But let's, because I don't want to not get to this, can you talk about your
school, what the philosophy is there,
your teachers, if you have other teachers, just give us a whole kind of rundown
about how and what it is that you're doing so people can kind of reach out if
they have that kind of interest and they're in need.
(02:38):
Cool. I mean, I'll just start off with, we have, you know, some of the best
teachers I think in the world, all of our schools, a lot of the world. So I feel very blessed.
You know, a lot of times like I'm going to our New York school this week and
I just pop in and I do an intensive, but you know, the, the teachers there are
working with the students week in and week out.
And so all the schools all over the world work that way. So there may be a school near you.
(02:59):
So if any of your listeners are, you know, I don't have a school in like Des Moines, Iowa.
So sorry. Sometimes I get a dm like hey do you have a school and
blah blah blah i'm like sorry no i don't but yeah so and
i think it just came out of my philosophy of trying to
help actors again understand that it
doesn't have to be so heady it isn't so thought out in terms of of a controlling
(03:24):
kind of playing your idea of something because life i just i believe that acting
is a subset that lives within life And so the same rules that apply in life apply in our acting.
It's fiction because we know we're acting, but it's still taking place in the
moment to moment this of an experience with another human being,
which happens to be you, like this podcast is an example, happens to be me.
(03:48):
I may be playing the character of Bill, but it's still me.
And you and I are then engaged in the circumstances written by a writer.
And our job is to do that without judging or filtering or editing.
In and so yeah that already is radically
different and i think very freeing to
understand like whoa it's it's about me i
(04:11):
have something to contribute and i
think you know lisa when i started i felt like i was
such an outlier and i started with like six students nobody was talking really
about acting this way that i knew of especially in hollywood i think in europe
probably but And now I'm finding that more and more actors and even old school
teachers talk about acting more and more this way.
(04:34):
And I just think, I think like all things, our understanding of things must evolve.
We have to keep, we're not driving horse and buggies anymore.
You know what I mean? Or we're hopefully all driving electric vehicles.
Things have to, you have to adapt and evolve. and our thinking around constructs
need to ascend, I think. And so I've always been...
(04:58):
I'm more interested in the human potential aspect of teaching because I think
the big misnomer is a parent is going to help their teen or child actor get
a job and then they're going to get a little bit older and then maybe acting
won't have the same joy it had for them.
Or I'm working with a young adult and they book a job
and then the show is over and then they don't have
(05:20):
self-worth and self-love because all
their meaning was tied up to being on on
a hit show and now they haven't worked for four years yeah and i
think these are the real real yes challenges
we should be talking about in class rather than just becoming famous so that's
what i've been passionate about like i want people to do well and i've had so
(05:41):
many famous clients so it's not but i think we can't be taught that our happiness
is in something else it's in us it's in
the expression of being who we are. Absolutely. Absolutely.
Yeah. And I find too, when I'm working with, with the clients that many times they need the teacher,
(06:04):
the, the mentor to give them the confidence that that is true because they have
this misconception that they have to attain said goals to be worthwhile, which can be sad.
So we, you know what I mean? like I like to live in that space of giving them
the confidence to say, I am good enough and I can, I can go in whatever direction
(06:31):
I need to go in and make this work for me.
And I'm going to be happy because that's the end game really to be happy with what you're doing.
That's right. It's crazy. It's crazy. So with the school.
Do you offer virtual classes or is it only, like, where are you?
And I also would love to know, sorry, two-part question.
(06:52):
I also would love to know what age groups you offer as well and how people can,
I'm going to make it a three-part.
Okay. How people can get in touch. Fine, yeah, okay.
So we do have, I think, a couple courses still online.
And I think all that's on the website. I don't teach it online. and
you know obviously during covid we were all online
(07:14):
but yeah you know everything is but i think because
of our internationalness sometimes and and
people wanting to study this from all over the world we do have like let's
say our cape town teacher might be teaching a class that because she's based
in cape town online works for most people in other regions all around the world
so we do offer yeah it's kind of cool so like somebody in japan could be taking
(07:37):
the class because it works at the right time in her time zone.
So that's the first thing. The second thing is, you know, well, we work with all levels.
We're restructuring right now our kids program.
Which I'm really excited about because one of our kids teachers,
who's a big casting director, she, post-COVID, has moved out of California and
(07:59):
works remotely somewhere else,
which is great for her, but she was instrumental and part of the program.
So we're redeveloping it and I'm excited. Hopefully we're going to be launching it again soon.
But you know i work we work with all levels and
you can find me anywhere like you know
you can go to our website anthonymeindle.com i'm on
instagram you know so yeah i think youtube but yeah i want to ask you two more
(08:24):
questions okay you're developing your youth program yes and so if you If you
had advice for a parent with a child,
a teen that's singing all over the house, pretending that they're a character from a movie.
I mean, you know, my oldest son would jump out of the bathroom in his underwear
(08:47):
and start to be like the mask, you know what I mean? Right, right,
right. From the old movie.
You know, and he knew all the lines.
You know, like what's your perception of what they should be thinking? Like when is it right?
Or maybe what are your thoughts about determining readiness in a child or teen?
Do you have any thoughts there? That's great. Yeah, I do.
(09:08):
I mean, listen, I'm known for having taught so many young performers who have
now become quite famous adults, right? And yeah.
And I worked with them in their teenage years.
And I think the two things that pop out is I think it's just really important
that the youthful person, the young adult, the kid really wants to do it,
(09:33):
that there's no parental pressure.
I know it's hard. Parents just breathe. You can't live your dreams through the child.
And I'm not a parent. So I'm not judging because I know being a parent is so hard.
And it's thank God we have parents because we're all here because of parents.
So it's a beautiful, beautiful thing.
But I think there's sometimes parents who really push their children into something
(09:59):
that maybe they just love to do it on the weekends, but don't really want to
do it based on the metrics that a parent wants them to do it.
So that would be my first thing. and the second thing is
is if they do do it and they show an affinity toward it let
them show you what it wants to be and here's
my two philosophies about it i think acting for
(10:20):
kids first of all the training needs to be just supporting
them being who they are because all kids are ever going to do while their kids
is play themselves they're not going to be playing the 80 year old version of
themselves acting training for youth needs to be look your teenage your 15 year
old girl is going going to play the 15 or 14 or 16 year old girl as the daughter in the movie.
(10:40):
So she's playing the permutation of herself.
So she doesn't need to learn how to act koala.
She just needs to learn how to be less reserved about parts of herself or himself, right?
So that's the first thing. Also, I think.
The shelf life for actors, even though it's a young medium, I want us to remember
(11:04):
for parents, I think they have stars in their eyes because of freaking Disney and a Disney show.
But the odds of somebody being on a Mickey Mouse show, like Zendaya, good for her.
And she's parlayed into something really incredible. But you don't just want
(11:25):
your child to end up on a kid's program that they then outgrow and never work again.
You have to think the long game.
And so there have been so many troubled kid actors because they were on a show
that then defined them as kids and they weren't able to move beyond that.
(11:46):
So it's okay for young performers to be on kid shows. There's nothing wrong
with it. It's great. It can pay for their college education.
It's a beautiful thing. I just don't want all of the parental eggs to go in
that basket that that then means they're going to be the next Academy Award
winner or have a huge HBO show.
Right. I think, again, you have to let...
(12:07):
The child's own curiosity lead yeah
yeah it's so important as you know because you're an amazing parent lisa like
kevin was figuring himself out and he has figured out his own journey and has
been very successful and i'm sure inside you're like oh no don't go in the business
but then you were like supporting him in him figuring it out that's why he's
(12:28):
a well-adjusted successful but
also just great kid. He's a good guy. He was a great kid.
So that's important. Yes. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. Well, that's another, Oh my gosh. We could.
Oh, please. Yeah. Well just, yeah. Right.
Yeah. I just think parents get a little too thing to like what you were saying
(12:52):
about just being a good human being.
And when, once you get on a project, I had thought about asking you this,
but you know, you're kind of brought it up here.
Once you get on a project or even when you're in the audition space and you're
going through the process of all of the, you know, the audition,
the callback, the chemistry, you have to be a good person.
You have to be someone that they want to work with.
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There's that human piece of it that and so many beginner actors,
singer dancers have a hard time with that. They get so overwhelmed.
And I'm so glad that you said that. It is you're hiring the personality.
Out like a person you're going to be spending 12 hours on set every day
maybe for three months or whatever you want to hire somebody who's fun
easy to work with no egos also that speaks
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to because we're talking about parents if they are minors or
they're not emancipated or a legal 18 yet
yeah the parents i have a lot of stories with casting with producers directors
they sometimes will not hire the young performer if they get a whiff that the
parent is a lot to deal with yes and i've seen And you understand that parents
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are protective as you should be.
And, and, and, but, but, but you just, you've just got to like, let, let the child lead.
Yeah, exactly. Let the, that is the best advice.
Let the child lead, let the child do their thing because they're the one who has to do the work.
They're the one who has to be, you know, passionate enough about it to,
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to be on set for those kind of hours and do that type of thing. Okay. That was amazing.
I agree with everything you said, everything you said. All right.
Young adult coming out of college.
Advice? I think you have to keep studying and training because chances are you're
going to have to retrain everything.
I hate to say it, but it's true because it's a very academic setting generally.
And I think getting out in the real world is just a different animal and kind
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of working a different aspect of yourself.
Also, I think what's important about training, whether you're on set or you're
doing your own stuff or you're doing a play or you're in a different program,
who you are at 18 is not who you're going to be at 24 and certainly not at 34.
For. So you have to keep working.
Your whole gestalt is changing. So you cannot expect to be the same actor you were when you were 18.
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Really good. That's why people's careers don't continue. I'm convinced of it
because they're not willing.
I get it. It's scary, but you've got to explore. I'm a new person.
I've got to figure myself out. Yeah. Well, your type changes.
Yeah, that's right. Your type changes. And you, and you have,
and I think like what I do with in my courses is I teach parents and adults
and the adult, cause I have two courses, one for parents, one for adults.
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And I teach how this industry works from the inside out so that once they understand
that, then they're going to make better decisions and they're going to understand.
So if you are, like you're saying, if you're this, you know,
amazingly fit, you know, young adult male, and then as you get a little bit
older, your type is going to change in various ways.
Same thing for women, obviously you have to embrace that because who is hiring
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you? It's their project.
It's who they need in that moment to make that project successful.
And you can't live in that other space. So both really great points that you
made, you know, about that.
Interesting. I love it. Keep training, keep training, keep learning, keep being curious.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I love it. Thank you. This has been so much for having me. Oh, please.
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So that was really fun. We can do a part two anytime you want.
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