8 Reasons that Professional Actors DON’T Need Acting Coaching
Hey! Thanks for visiting my Blog. I hope you find something useful here. The whole idea is to offer a resource of advice, guidance and okay, a fair bit of opinion too on the topic of acting and actor training. Today’s blog examines 8 reasons why I don’t think professional actors need any further coaching in acting.
1) BEST TRAINING IN THE WORLD: You’ve already received the finest training that the world has to offer. It has equipped you with the best tools to go to work with. You are 100% ready to produce stunning acting because you were given the highest standards of tuition in practicable techniques and tools.
2) TECHNIQUE THAT WORKS TIME AND AGAIN: You have a great technique that helps you not only get lots and lots of work, but also when you go to work, you are the most prepared member of the cast because your technique works so successfully. When you go to work, you simply apply the ABCs of your technique to any role and the part opens up to you and you start to enjoy the feeling of good rehearsal.
3) INSTRUMENT IN TIP-TOP SHAPE: Since you’re working all the time, you don’t ever feel that your acting instrument is out of work. Remember what they say- Never trust a man who says he has 10 years of experience. 10 years of doing something badly isn’t anything to brag about.
4) CONSTANTLY WORKING: You don’t need a coach, you’ve been working for the past 12 years non-stop.
5) DON’T FIND TEXT WORK CHALLENGING – You have the skills, the experience and technique to use your mind like a laser to glean from the text what you need to do in your role. You have such faith in these tools that the essence of any script is made immediately apparent to you. You never struggle with scripts.
6) YOU KILL IN AUDITIONS – Audition after audition, you’ve got killer monologues, you cold read like you were born to do it, you love getting a script the night before and you go into auditions with the confidence of a pro.
7) YOU’RE ALWAYS SATISFIED WITH YOUR PERFORMANCE - You work a lot and you are always highly satisfied with the quality of your performance. The work you do is captivating, truthful, inspiring, gripping to watch. You never feel like you could have done better.
8) YOU’VE BEEN TO A COACH BEFORE… You’ve been to a coach before, they were rubbish, they were not helpful, they didn’t know what they were doing particularly, they talked a lot, had you do weird shit and you don’t fancy wasting any more money.
So there we have it, if you can tick all those boxes, you really don’t need any more coaching, you’ve got it all! But if you do need a little help, I’d be only too happy to assist you with some pragmatic tools and guidance.
It’s true, you don’t need a coach.
But for the rest of the us, why not consider getting a little coaching. At Acting Coach Scotland, we offer private coaching to professional, working actors that want to get the MOST out of their performances, because to YOU mediocre is NOT good enough!