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When and how to start an acting career

Corlew Karla

Experts say that it is better to start mastering the acting profession from an early age. So, when you notice your child’s desire to transform into their favorite pop culture characters, give it a go — enroll your child in an acting school or theater studio.

But talent, if it exists, is able to reveal itself even in adulthood, as in the case of actor Adam Driver. With behind him only a couple of successful school productions and service in the US Marine Corps, Adam entered the Juilliard School of the Arts in New York and made his stage debut at the age of 33. Then he played the villain Kyle Reno in the films of the Star Wars saga. And there are many similar scenarios of becoming an actor.

So age is not an obstacle to acting! True, theater universities accept applicants only up to the age of 25. In this regard, commercial ones are much more loyal – to have money for education and a throbbing “I want” in my head.

How to start acting? – you ask. Try to turn into your favorite hero of a movie, TV series or even a video game. You have probably already imagined yourself in his place more than once. Stand in front of the mirror and say the crowning phrase of the character, reproducing his manner of facial expressions and gestures as accurately as possible. Try again and again until it’s perfect.

How to properly get into the role and play the image
To try on someone’s image, you need to use your imagination. Mentally imagine this personality and analyze it, try to answer the key questions:

  • What drives him or her, what does he or she expect from himself and others?
  • What is the worldview of this character?
  • Does he/she have passions?
  • What positive and negative character traits does he have?
  • How does he/she treat other people’s laws, rules and values?
  • Is it a material or spiritual person?
  • What kind of life did the character live?

The more details you learn about him, the easier it will be to get used to the role. Next, based on the characteristics of the character, work out his basic facial expressions and build a small monologue in the image – a complete, understandable story of one or two paragraphs that will allow you to feel the character “from and to”.

A monologue is the most powerful exercise for a beginning actor or actress and the most relevant format for evaluating acting skills at casting studios in Hollywood and Europe. With its help, you need to try to learn to feel what changes can be made in emotional changes, accents, because the same type of game will be perceived very boring from the outside.