My Acting Career: To Act Or Not To Act

I told you guys about how I use to model, act, dance, and sing right? Well I want to actually go deeper into my acting career or what was my acting career at least. I done a little digging around and I found a little bit more information on what I did when I was acting. How I got started acting I was modeling and after I my horrible breakup with my talent agency I decided to find work on my own. Which started out hard because I didn’t know where to find modeling jobs or even who to ask. Thanks to the good old Internet I sat myself down and surfed it like I have never surfed it ever before. I found myself engulfed in a title wave of information and was completely overwhelmed. I found so much information and where to post my portfolio and forums so on and so forth. So I started posting my portfolio on different free website such as Modelmayhem and Musecube and many others. Then I started get invites to submit to online magazine websites suck as Hot Blocks Magazine and online radio station websites. With all the invites, business proposals, and being featured I really started to get over whelmed with everything that was thrown my way. So I kind of stuck with one website that I like the most which was model mayhem. I ended up meeting a photographer Merika Rock; she worked with many different names such as Keeping Up With the Kardashians’ Kim Kardashian and Kris Jenner to Celebrity Fit Club’s Harvey Waldon and American Idol’s Kimberly Locke. She is the main person that got me deep into the entertainment industry. She’s the one that made me stop and think about being a minority business owner. Now I am getting of topic, which is for another post.

 I got into acting through model mayhem when I got a job offer that was looking for models for a web show. At first I was hesitant because I have never acted before and I didn’t know anything about it, The only thing I could remember thinking was, OMG I don't know if I could remember lines; my head was overly thinking this. Well, with me the more confused and scared and overwhelmed I get I have to try it. So I messaged them back saying Ill doing as I’m freaking out. The people that messaged me were called DynaHunk and  they said Ill be on their web shows with my own little season. It was a very low budge but great if you’re a beginner like I was. The show was called Dare Doll Dilemma, which I thought was cool because I could be a superhero! Go me!! I ended up doing one episode (just the trailer) and found out that I was pregnant, bummer I know!! Honestly it is fine with me because it was hard to work with the lady, but you can’t win everything, and maybe it was just me since I didn’t have previous experience. It was fun but just for that one time. Then I got other invites to auditions and I went.

 I remember this one time I went to an audition...remember I never had experience before except for the dare dolls thing, which there was no audition for that. Anyway, I was really scared because the people where obviously more professional and had a higher budget to work with. So I decided to take a friend of mine with me. Drove 3 hours to Chicago and I couldn’t find a parking spot. I’m freaking out because it was close to the time I had to be there, I even left an hour earlier expecting traffic. I ended up being late, which I hate. I walk in and all eyes are on me. I hate looking very unprofessional and not being in control of whats going on, its just not me! Well I forgot my headshot in the car so I had my friend run out and get it as they called my name. They call me back and as I was walking down the hall to the audition room I see something that said have your monologue ready. A WHAT? Didn’t know what that was so of course I didn’t have one! Now your probably wondering, didn’t you look at your breakdown? Yes I did, I was just oblivious to the word monologue when I read through it. So I sat down, cameras in my face, lights in my eyes, and I answer the questions they ask and they asked me, if I got the part would I be able to make it to the set. I said yeah and my heart started racing because I was expecting them to tell me to do my monologue. They didn’t and it was the end of that. Handed them my headshot not expecting anything, and I was right, nothing! I learned so much between those two acting experiences as well as reading and talking to other actors on what to expect, that if I could do it all over again, I still wouldn’t. It’s not for me to be on that side of the industry. I was made to be on the other side, made to prevent that from happening to other talented people. So that is how I got into acting and that is how fast I ended my acting career!