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When an Actor ‘Tries Too Hard’: The Pros and Cons of Awards Season Self-Promotion
Amid awards season (and arguably before and after), actors promoting their work battle with looking overly eager or trying too hard.
Or let’s even look at it from a less jaded point of view: If you spent months — even years — of your life on a project that you poured your heart and soul into, you would want people to see it. As an actor, you must have the ability to have easy access to your emotions — be ready to do a dramatic crying scene for the fifth time while a giant camera is in your face and a bunch of crew just want to break for lunch. Every day actors have to fight this battle I’ve spoken to many recently – ranging from Oscar nominees to people just starting out – and asked about the contradiction of promoting yourself or a project without being off-putting.
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