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Aaron Marcus advises actors to own the slate by introducing yourself as the character, not just the role. Say
Aaron Marcus advises actors to own the slate by introducing yourself as the character, not just the role. Say
Here's another acting and modeling quick tip with me, Aaron Marcus. Look, whenever you go into an audition, you always want to be exuding confidence. And I don't mean cockiness, but I do mean confidence. Even if you are freaking out internally, externally what you want to be showing is the idea of, look, if I book this job, that's great. If I don't book this job, that's great. I'll book something else. That's what you want to be showing. Now, here is something that I am going to begin using at every audition. And so I wanted to share it with you. So when you do slate, and you don't always slate at every audition, but quite often you do, uh, they're going to ask, and it could be a whole variety of things. It could be your name, your agency, your height, what city you live in. There could be like a million different things. Typically though, one of the things you, you could be asked is what role you're reading for. And so in the past, I used to say, let's say if my character was Dr. Barnes, I would say, hi, I'm Aaron Marcus. I'm reading for the role of Dr. Barnes. Okay. So instead of doing that, I'm going to be exuding that confidence. It's going to be, hi, I'm Aaron Marcus. I'm Dr. Barnes. That's what I'm going to be doing. I am not going to be reading for the role. I am that person. I am that character. And I just want to help implant that idea in other people's brains. I'm the guy. So anyhow, I wanted to share that with you. If you have any other tips that you can share with others about things that you do at an audition that would be really helpful, please share it with others either on my facebook.com/howtomodel page, and that way tons of people can see it, or you can also leave it at the bottom of this page. If you're watching this, whether it's either on YouTube or on Facebook, please give it a thumbs up and like it, and always feel free to share this with other people. That, that's why I do it, to try to help others. And so place it on your social media pages, however you want to spread the information. I'm Aaron Marcus, and I can't wait to talk with you again soon.
