Hack Hollywood - 1 Year Of Recurring Commissions
When the dot com bubble bust I found myself in Hollywood, unemployed. So on a whim I decided to take an acting class… and the rest, as they say, is history. But that’s not the important part. What’s important is that because I didn’t grow up with this ‘dream’ of becoming a Hollywood actor, I was able to see the big picture of how Hollywood really works… I Was Able to See Hollywood For What It Really Is… You see, I come from a background of advertising and management consulting and I have an MBA from USC (don’t worry, I will help non-Trojans too!).
Thanks for your help.” DB Dickerson Now, with the unveiling of Hack Hollywood, you too can accelerate your acting career.
The unfortunate truth is that when it comes to your career, ‘acting technique’ has very little to do with how far you go.
Here’s a note I recently received from a beginning actor I coached… “I finally got an audition off the bat for a leading role in a SAG film.
My specialty was in Customer Relationship Management (CRM). When I began failing miserably at the start of my acting career, I took a step back and thought, “Hmm, there has to be some way I can use my training to impro[...].
You’ve got to learn how to ‘ game ‘ the business side of Hollywood… how to stand out from the crowd and be seen & recognized otherwise it doesn’t matter how good your acting chops are.
Unlike a lot of actors out there who started acting when they were still in diapers, I never acted a day in my life until I was in my late 30′s.
I have what I’d call an outsider’s perspective on acting and a pretty atypical career arch… … And consequently, my advice tends to fly in the face of conventional acting advice.
WARNING: Acting Is 20% Talent And 100% Business My math is a little off, but it’s true… The real reason I’ve been able to succeed in my acting career is because I started focusing on the BUSINESS side of acting while everyone else kept going to acting classes waiting to be ‘discovered’.