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Nadia Halstrom

3 Oct 2025

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Not a rhetorical question. Concretely, on a Monday morning, with no agent and no credits, what is the list of things I should be doing?

4 replies

  1. Terrance Whitlow

    4 Oct 2025

    Class, submissions, and making your own thing. In that order of importance. The third one is the one most people skip and it is the one that generates the other two.

  2. Anneke Vos

    24 Oct 2025

    Get on Actors Access and Backstage. Submit for student films at every film school within reach. Those are the roles nobody is competing for that will still give you footage.

  3. Sandrine Okafor

    15 Nov 2025

    Find the other actors at your level and make things with them. My first six credits all came from people I met in a class in 2016 and half of them are working now.

  4. Miles Petrakis

    16 Nov 2025

    Concretely on a Monday: one hour submitting, one hour on a scene you are working on, and one email to somebody you met once. That is a good Monday.

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