When you’re an actor starting out, you have no control. All you can do is prepare the best you can for auditions and turn up on time.
This is not a time for silence, nor is it a time for complacency. This is a time to mobilise, to unite and to start learning. Learning about our PRIVILEGE.
The key is to always get into your car this way, it draws attention to your yellow socks and also the immensely cool electric vehicle itself.
It’s okay not to feel okay and let’s be kind to ourselves and each other when the world feels blurry and even when it doesn’t.
Inside, you’ve got the voice, the character, all the context, everything you’ve researched, then you put the costume on, and it seals it all in. Costume is integral, but it clicks into place last.
I’ve heard it said that you stop growing from the age you get famous.
I think visibility is key with these things. My journey has been a long one and has still got a long way to go. I think we are so used to defining ourselves. That’s the way society works within these binaries and it’s taken me a long time to realise that I exist somewhere in between and I’m still not sure where that is yet.
Grab onto things that resonate with you, that you relate to, or that you empathize with.
Every rejection, every phone call from my agent to say, “It didn’t go your way,” I felt the layers of my skin growing. “OK, cool, let’s move on.” You have to get beyond the fear of rejection and plow on because it’s intense.
As an actor, you tend to get excited about scenes that are weighty or meaty because you get to shift gears in a way that’s quite interesting.