Becoming an actor
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- Michael
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There is a famous answer to that. If you want to act….is it acting you are talking about? Yeah acting?….If you want to act, don’t….If you really, really, really, really, really want to act don’t. If you really, really, really, really, really, really want to act, don’t. If you have to act, do it. There is a big difference.
So don’t do unless you have to, unless it’s in you, because it’s not easy, it’s hard. And in this country every single year from all the acting institutions, Toi Whakaari in Wellington and the Unitech School in Auckland and all the ones all over the country, each year we put approximately 1500 wannabe actors into the system, and I would say at the moment employed in theatre certainly there would be less than 30 actors in the country, or maybe 30.
It’s a small pool, so my advice is, don’t do it unless you absolutely have to. Once you decide you have to, and you are going to do it, get some training or experience, I never went to a drama school but I did an apprenticeship at a theatre, well two theatres really for five years. Get some training, get experience, and then you just have to get out there. There is no other way. Get out there. Get seen. Do auditions. Do anything. That’s all there is to it really. And of course be brilliant.