Actor Growth

Recently there was an audition posting for a short film and initially it sounded like it was a very action oriented piece. Afterwards, they decided to change it to something more suspenseful and the character in the film would have to pretend to smoke a pipe. The thing is, smoking and cigarettes is one of those things in film that I will not do and I had to unfortunately tell them that I didn’t feel I was right for the role and wouldn’t be auditioning for it.

I guess a big reason is that I don’t smoke personally and actually dislike it very much. Some people say it is just acting, but my other thought is that I feel I would kind of be promoting the idea that smoking is good if people saw me do it on screen and I wouldn’t want that to happen.

I know a lot of actors have their thing in terms of what they wouldn’t do as well. Thinking about the long term too, I wouldn’t ever want to do a role where the person is like a chimney and so this will help to remain consistent in terms of the type of work I do and what I want to portray when it comes to professional film work.