Getting Started
Cory Mbatha
28 Jun 2026
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I saved for two years to do this and now I am here and the days are just... empty. I submit on Actors Access in the morning, I go to my shift, I come home. Nobody is waiting for me to do anything.
Is this the part everybody means when they say the first year is hard, or am I doing it wrong?
Paul Etherington
29 Jun 2026
This is the part. It is not a sign you are failing, it is genuinely what it looks like from the inside.
Terrance Whitlow
19 Jul 2026
Put structure on it or the emptiness will eat you. A class two nights a week, a workout, one thing on the calendar that is not submitting. The submitting is the smallest part of the job.
Marguerite Sowande
21 Jul 2026
Six weeks is nothing. I remember thinking the same at six weeks and by month eight I had a class full of people I still work with. Give it time to accumulate.
Curtis Mbadiwe
23 Jul 2026
One practical thing: go be in the room with other actors even when there is no audition. Class, a workshop, a reading, anything. The isolation is the actual danger, not the lack of auditions.
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