In my last tv/film class, we went down the line for the
answer to the question:
“What are you hoping from today’s performance?”
The answers varied,
“I hope I bring truth to my performance.”
“I hope I remember my lines.”
“I hope I’m convincing.”
So here is one idea on how the brain works. It has a five
sensory active picture, a thought, it tries to convey through
language, either through the body, or verbal language. But what kind
of picture/thought is Hope? Hope is a dream, a desire, an unsolid thing,
liquid. It covers a lot of ground. Hoping is a (we think) positive throwing of the hands up in the air and seeing what happens. But it’s not firm, it has no
backbone, and is 50/50. If you ever
invite someone to your party, and their response is “Oh yeah! I hope to make
it!” give their invite to someone else, you’ll never see them. They don’t have
the SPECIFIC pictures/thoughts of showing up, ringing that doorbell, holding
that bottle of wine they took time to pick out, that door opening, the lighting
up of the face, HEY!, in they go.
It’s not that they don’t like you, in fact the opposite,
they’re trying to convince you they’ll be there, because they do like you, but
they’re not doing the work.
The audition room is no place for hope. The audition room is
a place for work. The audition room is meant for solid thinking. I know who my
character is, I know where I am, I know what I want, I come in service, I am in
the moment in joy. Done. No wishy washy, no secret prayer you’ll get lucky,
failure is a joke to be smirked at. Like the old pirate saying: Abandoned all
hope ye who enter here. That’s your audition room. A place of joy, work and
love. Do we see how all of the earlier answers to the question, what are you hoping
will happen, was actually an unconscious belief that it WONT happen? Look to
your hope. It’s where you need to work more on your script, your character,
your setting, your audition mindset. Give up hope, there’s work to be done.
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