It's Shockingly Easy to Misinterpret Your Agent’s Text

Hi. Hey, listen, as you can see, I'm traveling right now, um, but I want to share with you in this video how it's shockingly easy to misinterpret an agent's text. If you watch this to the end, I've got a great bonus video for you. Are you struggling with imposter syndrome while acting? Here's one powerful solution. Okay, let's get started. Hey, I'm Aaron Marcus, and welcome to the Acting and Modeling Quick Tips channel and the Actor Career Center. Look, text messages can be phenomenal. They also— you got, you got to be really careful with text messages, especially from agents. Now look, just so you understand, I'm not trying to generalize here because every agent works differently, but Agents are really busy, and, and sometimes they just don't have the time to fully explain things. They're trying to get the immediate information out to you as quickly as possible. Sometimes, at least for me, it can feel cold. It can feel a little uncaring. A little insensitive. And it took me a while to understand what was going on. Here's, here's the deal. And I want to give you a specific example in a second, but text messages aren't personal. They are like using a credit card. It's a business transaction. It makes things go quickly, smoothly, and right to the point. But it's not necessarily personal. And I'm not saying you can't have a personal conversation in a text. Of course you can. But most of the time I find with agents, that's not the case. It's a way of getting things, getting information out to you very fast. So here's the example, and this is what made me think of this. I had an audition for a national television commercial. Actually, it was going to be Running in the Super Bowl. And so there was a lot connected with this. Certainly the exposure is pretty cool. Financially, it could have been— you never know, but it could have been pretty great. And did the audition, and then I got a callback, which means, you know, people were interested. I'm still far away from booking the job, but— You know, at least people liked what I did and they want to see more. So did the callback and didn't hear anything. And then it's like, I don't know, 2 days before the shoot, I still haven't heard anything. And once again, there's a lot on the line for this particular project. So I emailed the agent. But I got a text back, and the text— because I— and I asked, hey, just wanted to hear, have you gotten any updates? And the agent texted me back and said, you're released. And I got it, and my initial reaction was, boy, that just feels a little cold to me. And also, let Look, I work with a number of agents, and I can say there's, I'm thinking, one, maybe one and a half or two that I have a personal relationship with. And especially one, it's a good friend, good friend of mine, and we talk about non-business stuff regularly. He lives far away from me, but we try to get together periodically. But most of my other relationships And they're decent, but they're business. It's like working with somebody that you don't necessarily have a personal relationship with. So I wasn't looking for someone to rest my shoulder on and someone to help support me. I'm so sorry you didn't get this job. It's terrible. That's not what I was looking for. But I tell you what I wanted. I wanted something a little bit more, hey, sorry you didn't get it, um, you know, hopefully you'll book the next one, instead of you're released. It just felt so cold and distant to me. But here's the crazy thing. Oh, and by the way, it's kind of like with my doctors. You know, I've got various doctors for different things, and I like warm and fuzzy. You know, I like that soft kind of, you know, interaction between medical people, but it doesn't happen for most of them. Most of it, it's just pretty cut and dry. I like them. They're very, they're really great doctors. And so I don't need warm and fuzzy. That's my preference, 'cause that's just who I am. And just like with agents, I prefer it, but I realize most of the time that's not going to happen. But here's, here's the deal. I did speak with the agent on the phone. It was about something else, and it was interesting. The agent said, yeah, hey, I'm so sorry that thing didn't work out, but they really liked what you did. So all of a sudden, I mean, it's kind of like that's what I was hoping for and felt, you know, a little, a little bad because I didn't get it in the text. But that's why it's so easy to misinterpret. Reading texts from agents because you don't really know what they're thinking. They might just say, hey, I got to get this out to you right away. So anyhow, when you're reading, whether it's an email or a text, just understand it's not necessarily what you think it is. They might not be thinking what you are thinking the agent is thinking. And I just understand it's very easy to misinterpret them and don't try. Don't try to read into it. Take the information and then move on. Hey, if you've ever gotten a text from an agent that you misinterpreted, misinterpreted, please share it here on the channel. If you haven't subscribed yet, please do so now. Click the notification bell so you always know when a new video has been uploaded. If you like it, give it a thumbs up and share the link with fellow actors. I did promise I was going to share another bonus video. You'll see it right up here, and it's, are you struggling with imposter syndrome while acting? Well, here's one powerful solution. I know you're going to enjoy it. I'm Aaron Marcus, and I can't wait to talk with you again soon. See ya. See ya.