VFT friend Brenda Garcia posted Booked an AFI gig! Why do I get booked on stuff where I audition with a Hey, Im not getting paid (or very little) for this so Im going to have fun and just go with it attitude? Hmmmm, lesson to be learned here..... I responded: A Very useful lesson. Not Caring is a powerful state of being for what we do. That doesnt mean we arent invested, simply that weve taken a lot of pressure off ourselves. And there are few things more powerful or empowering than having just booked a job as you meet for another job... In the mid-70s, already pretty well established, I took a meeting with Stanley Sobel, then casting SEARCH FOR TOMORROW on CBS. 7 page scene. On page 3 he stopped me and said Thats all I need. He showed me a legal pad filled with names and said he didnt want to meet with them, that the role was meant for me. I was flattered and told him Id taken this appointment as a courtesy. Id wanted to meet him but knew I would begin rehearsals in two days for a repertory run of Julius Caesar/Coriolanus for Joe Papp at the Public Theater. I couldnt do both. He told me to let him work on it...and he negotiated with Joe Papp to work around the rehearsal schedule. I did both for almost 5 months...adding a weekly class with Stella during my afternoon breaks :) Point is I felt no risk, no stress in meeting with him; I wasnt needy. I already HAD a job. 43 years in this business. Yet two weeks ago I self-sabotaged a meeting for an ABC comedy pilot, series regular. Good fit - prior service, fit, eccentric, a school principal. As I am often wont to do, I over-worked it, over-thought it and was not remotely present in that room. I didnt engage the creators, I barely engaged the reader. Sometimes we are enough...we just need to allow ourselves to be. Once learned, we gotta be able to hold onto that wisdom. Always show up...always be at ease.
Posted on: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 00:17:30 +0000
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