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Advice From An Acting Coach During Hollywood Contraction: Don’t Fall For Programs Promising “Secrets” On How To Book Roles – Guest Column
Former casting director Sam Stiglitz weighs in on the lack of roles these days and how actors should protect themselves.
Editor’s note: As part of Deadline’s ongoing coverage of the contraction going on in Hollywood, we asked Sam Stiglitz — a former casting director who now coaches by professional referral only — to weigh in on the lack of roles and how actors should protect themselves. For every actor out there, there exists numerous coaches, membership organizations and classes that claim to hold the “secret” and “solution” to breaking into this industry. With up to 7,000 submissions from agents and managers, a casting director could see hundreds of tapes, and then the chosen actor still needs to be approved by the producers, the studio, and the network.
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