Needed.

You and all of us want to be needed.

It’s only human.

When you’re cast in a show part of the good feeling is that the movie needs you. It can’t be made without you playing that role. You’re now an integral part of the whole.

You’re needed.

If you’re not booked on a show and not getting auditions you can start to feel like you’re not needed. You’re capable and professional and ready to audition and work, but it seems as if you’re not needed.

That’s a terrible feeling.

And that feeling can divert you when doing auditions. Guard against that.

In fact, even when you’re not getting auditions or shooting on set you’re needed. The movie business needs to have an army of actors ready and waiting. The system is set up that way.

Just as skilled bakers, wheat farmers, teachers, loggers – all - are trained and ready to work yet they may be part of that same army – the unemployed. Seemingly not needed.

Linking how you’re needed to how others are needed will deepen your conviction to stick to your ideals and fight for what you believe in.

As you’re part of the community, developing new work, training and participating with your peers – you are needed. Remember that.

People need you to tell their stories. If things were different and you always had the opportunity to fulfil that need you’d feel better. 

Know you’re needed as an actor.