Find Your Type

 

Should you find your type?

Every so often a brilliant actor who is in CI tells me they’re trying to figure out their type. At first I think they are asking for dating advice. Which I happen to be quite good at, by the way.

But, no, that’s not what they’re asking for.

They want to know what box the entertainment industry would want to fit them into.
They’re on a mission, asking lots of people for feedback.

What type am I?

Honestly, I get a bit baffled by the question, because I see them as a one-of-a-kind artist. But, I do tell them what shows I could imagine seeing them on.

No doubt, knowing the answer to this question could be helpful if you’re meeting with a new agent/manager and they ask you, “How do you see yourself?”

On the flip side…

Ultimately there is only one of you – which is something to be grateful for!
Imagine if there were 5 of you – now that would be competition.

Instead of figuring out what type you are – and then trying to fit into that box – or have other people put you in that box – there is something else to consider.

Here’s what I have witnessed.

When an actor in CI starts accessing their truth…
When an actor in CI starts creating from their gut… their impulses… their core… their soul… they transcend type.

They become a spontaneous being revealing themselves within a story.
(p.s. That’s what an audience wants.)

We must always catch when we give our eyes away.
Attempting to see ourselves from someone else’s point of view will immediately pull us out of the present.
Remember: one of the key elements to presence is a detailed connection to our immediate environment.
We must always see outward, as opposed to pondering what we may look like from the outside in.
Further, we can’t do our sparkiest creative work while also having attention on proving what type we are.

Ultimately what is going to lead you to getting work is you creating from your deepest you. That funky, magical, dynamic, unsure, confident, scared, brave, brilliant YOU.
I celebrate you!

You are the absolute best you anyone has ever seen. You’re so lucky!

Let’s chat.
Let me know your thoughts about this in the comments below.

Breathe.
See.
Feel.
I’m Back.