What Character And Profession People See You As
Nov 11th, 2009 by Alan Yu
Happy Remembrance Day everyone. Over the past few days I was thinking how one thing that I need to do is to re-evaluate people’s first impression of me for casting purposes. Essentially, as an actor you are heavily pre-judged by what your headshot looks like as well as your appearance when you walk into the audition room.
I have heard that what some actors do is go up to complete strangers and simply ask them questions such as what kind of profession they are in. For example, some people might label one guy as a lawyer because of the suit they are wearing and another person might be stereotyped as a basketball player because they are so tall.
This is kind of hard to do with your friends and family since they know you quite well and therefore will already have a reservation about what to label you as considering they know your personality. I was thinking, maybe a funny way to do this is to go to like a speed dating event which would get rid of the awkwardness of just asking a complete stranger off the street.
