#1 NO FRAME OF REFERENCE FOR THE CHALLENGE
FALSE BELIEF THAT HOLLYWOOD ISN’T “QUITE THAT HARD” aka Mrs. Waddlesworth is exaggerating about how hard it is out there. Some of the ways that we make meaningful progress are incredibly expensive, incredibly time-consuming and otherwise brutally arduous. Still, if we’re talking about standing on a stage pretending to be Sir Gawain and riding an imaginary horse: are we talking about anything other than a goofy art party? That’s right, I said it, a goofy art party that costs $300/month. Due to the incredible expense and sacrifice of spending 7 years training in the competitive and grueling program at The Groundlings we can prefer to believe that “Hollywood is not that hard” or “It’s pretty hard but I can find a shortcut.” Or “I just need one more audition.” You might feel differently after you test for three pilots over 5 years and have nothing to show for it except for wrinkles and mileage on the Prius. So in the case of most “lost decades” the actor unwisely sp
