Acting Auditions
Be afraid. Be very,
very afraid. Or should you be? Many people go completely to pieces
when they arrive at an acting audition, as if the entire rest of
their career rests upon getting this one part, or they are convinced
before even going inside that the people are going to hate them and
they don't even know why they came. As other people are acting out
monologues to themselves waiting for their turn, they are outside
chain-smoking cigarettes, drinking coffee and chattering nervously
on their cell-phone to their girlfriend about the eminent demise
of their acting career directly after this audition.
You've seen her, maybe him, and perhaps felt badly for them, perhaps
been annoyed by them, but what is behind this phenomenon? One would
think that if a person has decided to pursue a career in acting,
auditions would just be part of the territory and they would have
learned to breeze through them long ago. Well, being nervous about
acting in an audition is quite natural, we just have to learn how
to control it, and focus that energy on giving the best performance
we can.
Acting and auditions are like butter and toast, you can't really
separate the two. If you get nervous about acting or before auditions,
take steps to eliminate the problem. Some people get a rush from
stressing out, but it doesn't necessarily produce the best results
during the actual audition. Remember the breathing and visualization
exercises your acting teacher taught you. Relax, and visualize yourself
blowing them away and getting the part.
