HOW TO REACH ACTORS

Unlike their agents, Actors are usually good people.

I guess this is because in their lives they suffered from failures and lack of opportunities, they felt frustrated, have been poor and close to give up, and the most of them know what means to receive an unexpected Yes that changes your life, or at least gives you the strenght and the optimism to continue.

This is why Actors in general are nice and willing to take part on your project if they like it, even if there is little or no money involved.

But how can you reach them?

On the internet it's plenty of sites with the agent's contact details, but they focus just on money: how can you skip the agents?

You know the theory of the 6 steps that separate us from anyone in the World.

What usually people do is thinking on someone they know, that could know someone, that could know someone that could know an Actor.

This is a quiet easy way to reach an Actor (not the best Actor for the role: just an Actor).

But I suggest to do the opposite.

A while ago I was interested in the most famous Italian Actor, and there was no way I could pay for his usual salary.

So I made a research on his life and found out his family came from a small town.

Then I took the phone and started calling all the people with his family name and the one of his mother.

After a while I reached his aunt.

Well, I'm not sure this is completely legal, but you know, The purpose justifies the action...

NO HOPE FOR WRITERS

A few days ago I had a meeting with a Hollywood Producer for a project that could take off together.

We were reasoning on an idea and how to develop the script.

- What about spreading the news we're looking for a subject, then let the writers contact us? - I say.

- It would just bring problems. People often ask me if I want to read their script. No! Of course not! - he says.

I look at him without understanding, and he continues:

- An accuse of plagiarism is very difficult to demonstrate, and when it happens it doesn't matter whether you win or lose, your name will be damaged. So if you want to live well in this business you always have to demonstrate you didn't take the idea from someone else.

As a former wannabe writer since I was 16, this activates a small bell on the back of my head.

- But say I wrote a good script, how can I bring that to you ? What's the best way to let you read it if I don't know you?
- You can't. American Producers and Publishers contact the agencies and ask them if they have something ready on a certain topic, or they work only with Writers they trust. The right thing to do is find a good agent. But to do that you need to write several successful works first, and the most of the best Agents don't take emerging Writers. This is why it's so difficult to become Writers in the USA.

And we're talking about the place known as The land of opportunities.

Now I guess my face shows my thoughts, because he tries to find some nice words:
- Everybody wants to be a Writer, and even if on the major studios sites there's always written they don't accept unsollicited scripts, you know how much money I spend to send back the scripts people send me, without even opening them?

He says he recieves 1.000 scripts a week (I recieve just 6). All of them are sure they strucked gold and think will win an Oscar for that.

The most of the Writers (or wannabe Writers) lock themselves in their room thinking that the most difficult thing will be writing a nice story.

But the most difficult thing is to let that story leave the room, actually.

Would they continue writing knowing their chances to succeed are almost none?

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