An actor is a person whose task is to make the viewer believe that everything that happens on stage or on the screen is real. Talented actors make you laugh and cry, get angry and happy, envy and feel happy. And sometimes they forget that they are playing a role. To become an actor is to get a chance to live not one, but dozens of different lives.
A professional actor performs roles in theater and movies. Actors also play characters in commercials.
An actor’s duties are not only to listen to compliments from fans and sign autographs. In fact, the work of an actor is difficult both physically and psychologically.
The first duty of an actor is to attend auditions where he competes with other actors for a role. When an actor gets a role, he or she must constantly work on the image that has been entrusted to him or her. This is called reincarnation.
The transformation consists of:
External – the actor puts on makeup (in many theaters, this is done by the actor himself, not the makeup artist), develops posture, manner of speech, gait, and other notable features of his character.
Internal – when the actor adopts the thinking, ethical views, and lifestyle of the character in order to better understand him or her. The most dedicated actors can spend weeks living the life of the character they play, they even refuse to communicate with their loved ones and ask them to call them by the character’s name.
In addition to personal work on the role, the actor attends script readings and rehearsals to perfectly fulfill his or her main duty – to play a role in a theater performance or in a movie, TV series, or commercial.
If success and fame await the actor afterwards, he or she will have pleasant additional responsibilities:
- meetings with fans;
- autograph sessions;
- interviews, etc.
Advantages and disadvantages of working as an actor
- You may be recognized for your talent, become popular, and maybe even world famous.
- Variety inherent in creative professions.
- Work can be associated with traveling (touring, filming in other countries).
- The opportunity to receive large fees.
- A chance to deal with a lot of psychological problems and unresolved conflicts while performing a variety of roles.
- The need to devote all your time to work.
- The risk of getting injured.
- The risk of never becoming a famous and popular artist.
- Unstable level of salary, its dependence on many factors.
- A threat to mental health.
- Fierce competition.