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Agent Representation Mainly For Show

Oct 10th, 2008 by Alan Yu

I was talking to a person recently who mentioned that although he has an agent, she isn’t really doing anything for him as he has been getting auditions on his own. He then made this comment on how the only good thing about having an agent for him is that it makes him sound bigger in terms of being a professional actor when it comes to short film auditions.

That might sound very silly, but in most cases that is true I thought. For example, before when I auditioned for simple independent films, during the camera slate I would always say “Self Represented”. Afterwards, when I decided to get an agent then during the slate I would slate the agency that I was represented by and you can see the heads pop up on how the people casting seemed more impressed.

It’s kind of a goofy way of separating a good actor in a group though I’d say. I guess it’s that whole mentality where if you have an agent then you are a big shot as the assumption is you get too much work/publicity to try and deal it yourself. That is so not true in the overall picture though from what I’ve seen. Is one of those things you have to work in the field to know I suppose.

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