Actor Growth

This was a first for me today. I submitted my information to some principal agencies and one in particular responded fairly quickly. The interesting was, they asked me what my age was. This is interesting because usually it doesn’t really matter as it all depends on your “look”.

But when I was thinking about it, this has happened to me once before during an audition and one time while on set I think I discovered why people ask that sometimes. In general I have a pretty young look. One day I was working on set with a person who casted me in one of his films and he made a comment how before he met me he was looking at my resume and thinking “Did this guy read what age the character is?”.

Afterwards though, he looked at my headshot and realized that I was a fit look wise. Turns out, the reason why he thought I was say a very old person initially was because I have a lot of film experience on my resume and hence the assumption is that you are this very old person. Like with this agent, I bet that was the same case where I listed so much stuff that they were confused on what my age was.

That’s something to think about too when it comes to your resume. Many times when you list a lot of stuff people will automatically assume you are an older fellah. So strategically it can be a good idea to only list specific credit if you are young and starting out too as that way you won’t be pre-judged as much and at the same time you can still show that you have experience under your belt. Unless you have established yourself already then the more the merrier I’d say.