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All New! Actors Pages Community Features

Hi Actors,

Although we’re still in beta we are happy to announce that we have successfully completed our new community platform. 

If you haven’t visited your profile lately please login now and check out the cool new networking features actors pages has developed for you.

Once you login, you will notice a new button “Enter The Network”. You will also notice that your profile url has a new link “My Network”.

The new community platform enables you to add friends, post blogs, post news, chat, and network with agents, casting directors, directors, producers, and of course fellow actors. 

And as always it is all free. 
Here is our community profile, don’t forget to say hi :)

http://www.actorspages.org/actorspages/community/

Hope you enjoy and help us spread the word.

Yours,

Actors Pages Team 

Four Top Secrets behind Brad Pitt’s Acting Skills

Most of you have probably been wondering how Brad Pitt can always grab the chance of being the lead actor in many films. Some said it’s because his extraordinary luck while the others said it’s because his pretty face. You can judge so. However, it’s undeniable that this guy has some acting skills. While other actors are being interviewed in the rest room, he learns and follows a profound and complicated acting method. If you want to become a professional actor, you should have learned from the master. The following are four prospective methods of his admirable acting skills.

Prepare

Being a good looking actor is not enough. You need to train hard before doing any roles. I remember how Thor actor, Chris Hemsworth, spent hundreds of working out and weight gaining for his leading role. For Brad Pitt, he climbed mountains for Seven Years in Tibet, boxed for Fight Club, and took up sword fighting lesson for Troy. I notice that being an actor is tempted, however it will worth in the end.

Stop Worrying Your Accents

We see big Hollywood stars acting with an accent all the time, yet most of them speak with flawless accents. If you have natural accent, you need to take the leap. Hollywood movies need a lot number of actors with perfect accents. In fact, actors from all over the world are often required to master an accent or dialect in order to portray a film or TV character.

Date Your Co-Star

Apparently, role acting can become reality. In movies, chemistry is all. The question is how you can get that perfect chemistry with your partner. Obviously, Brad Pitt gets a handy trick on that. He dates most of his co-star partner in order to forge the romantic atmosphere. This actor did it for Cutting Class, Head of the Class, Kalifornia, Seven and Mr & Mrs Smith.

Be Attractive

We can take this smart acting method from Brad Pitt. When he is unwilling to give much in front of camera, he just pretends to be a pretty boy by showing off his dimples. For instance, when he portrayed a good image boy in films like Kalifornia and Twelve Monkeys, he just smiled at the camera yet he still won.

I know these acting methods sound vaguely tricky. However, pretty much like I said earlier, you need to score from Hollywood master. Good luck in your acting.

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A New Look For A New Future

Actors Pages is celebrating its 3rd year and now bringing you even more!

As you probably noticed, we have re-branded our site with a slick new look. We have also installed a new program to increase the site’s loading speed. In the next few weeks you will notice a tremendous change in the speed and overall flow of the site.

What’s next? Well good news, we have many more new features coming.

May 15th, a new community platform will finally be released.
What will you be able to do with the community platform? What can’t you do?!
You will have access to all members profiles, and be able to contact, connect, network and chat with new members everyday. Also you will have the ability to write your own daily blog, upload unlimited photos, videos, and spread news. This is an actor’s best promotion tool, and it’s brought to you totally free.

July 1st, a new online audition system will be launched.
See a casting call you wish to submit for? Take the next step and upload an audition video. Yes… a picture is worth a thousand words, but a video is worth a thousand pictures. Take your game to the next level with “Instant Auditions”.

Thank you for being a part of the world’s biggest entertainment community.

We appreciate your support.

Jon

Why am I not getting any auditions?!

Did you ever ask yourself this question?

I bet you have. At least once in your career.

Actors Pages support team is getting emails of this sort on a weekly basis. “Your site sucks”, “Your casting calls are fake”, “There is a technical issue with the site” and the list is long…

Rest assure that our site is working well, and so do many other casting sites. The issue is not on a technical level, but with the profession itself.

This article is not for the working actor, it is for the non working actor. Yes it’s very frustrating to have such a strong desire to perform and get no real chance. It’s very painful to feel like you’re the most talented actor out there, yet to receive no auditions or not enough auditions.

If you feel like that, then you are not alone. You are in the company of millions of frustrated artists. You have every right to feel frustrated, but you need to wake up!

If you want to be an actor, the first thing you need to understand that you have chosen one of the most competitive professions in the world. For every role there are hundreds if not thousands of actors that are trying to submit their pictures.

There is usually one casting director that looks at the submissions. And in most cases he will look at the first 20-30 and call about 5-10.

In bigger productions he may call 50-100 actors per role, but this is not a usual thing.

What can you do to help your chances?

1) Well, first of all don’t get discourage. It may take a week, a month, or a year for you to get in to the casting office and show your skills.

2) Even before that, you need to make sure your profile looks professional.Your pictures need to look professional, your resume needs to look professional, your entire profile needs to look clean and professional.

We get so many actors asking why they don’t get any auditions, but they have an awful picture and invested 2 minutes to build their resume. This won’t work and it’s obvious why they don’t get called in to a casting call.

3) Register to as many casting sites (legit ones) that you can. Yes, it cost money, but so does any other thing in life. You need to be ready to invest something in your career.

Think about it this way, you have spent 3 years of subscription and it cost you 3 x $12= $36 (Actors Pages is the cheapest deal on the web, other sites might be more expensive). Now you got a role at the end of the 3rd year that paid you, let’s say $100. So basically for an investment of $36 you almost tripled your cost.

of course we are not doing this to receive $100 after 3 years, but this is just a small sample to show you how to go about your career. You will have to invest wisely in order to succeed.

I hope this short article helped you a bit and took a way a bit of your frustration. Keep believing, keep frighting and keep dreaming,

Robin Hood :)