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Do you find wannabe actors annoying?
I'm in a play at the moment because I thought I ought to be doing something outside my academic work at uni. I don't want to do it for a living or anything and I am in fact studying economics.
But the other people doing it are really quite annoying in some ways. They're nice people and everything, but at the same time they're so attention seeking and over the top. In every rehearsal there's this competitive tension with everyone trying to be the better actor. And you can just tell that they all want to be famous. They talk pretentiously about it too - for example, sometimes they'll break off and say: 'sorry, I lost my character' or 'I just want to become the character'. I mean, isn't that a load of nonsense?
There's just something really annoying about it I find and, in a way, depressing because you know that virtually all actors fail to get work.
But the other people doing it are really quite annoying in some ways. They're nice people and everything, but at the same time they're so attention seeking and over the top. In every rehearsal there's this competitive tension with everyone trying to be the better actor. And you can just tell that they all want to be famous. They talk pretentiously about it too - for example, sometimes they'll break off and say: 'sorry, I lost my character' or 'I just want to become the character'. I mean, isn't that a load of nonsense?
There's just something really annoying about it I find and, in a way, depressing because you know that virtually all actors fail to get work.
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If you can't stand people like that then you might want to steer vclear of all amateur drama productions. They're filled with characters like those you described.
I know what you mean, I dated a jobless actor, and she got on my nerves quite a lot with her pretensions, although to be fair she genuinely didn't want to be famous or anything like that.
I don't know about the whole getting into character thing, i've done some acting and a lot of historical re-enactment and roleplaying, in my experience finding you character can be difficult if you're not doing it for fun, which is why i guess acting is harder than roleplaying.
I don't know about the whole getting into character thing, i've done some acting and a lot of historical re-enactment and roleplaying, in my experience finding you character can be difficult if you're not doing it for fun, which is why i guess acting is harder than roleplaying.
HappinessHappening
They talk pretentiously about it too - for example, sometimes they'll break off and say: 'sorry, I lost my character' or 'I just want to become the character'. I mean, isn't that a load of nonsense?
They don't have to be pretentious. If they have studied/are studying theatre/drama/acting/whatever, one thing that you are taught through all sorts of different methods is to find or become your character. It seems like a very silly poncey idea from outside but it makes perfect sense once you've spent a few months immersed in practitioners theory and it becomes how you think (And I only studied Theatre for AS, so I can't help but imagine how much it would alter someones' thought process to study more seriously).
But aside from that point, yes the people who "want to be an actor" are annoying at times, but so are the people who want to be a lawyer, or a doctor, or a farmer, or anything - if you hang around a group of people with a strong aim in life, especially if you don't have it (or any other aim), the people become very annoying and competitive in their subject.
Wannabe = ''want to be'', not ''already is'', k thx.
I know someone like Mr G from Summer Heights High, hilarious 
HappinessHappening
Do you find wannabe actors annoying?
... What like the complete cast in Eastenders? ... Then Yes
You have to expect it in this kind of industry.
oo_Lucinda_oo
Wannabe = ''want to be'', not ''already is'', k thx.
I think he meant wannabe professional actors, but they are only in amateur dramatics, which is why all of the "losing character" business is irritating. I wouldn't call someone doing a uni play an "actor"- I'd call them a student who acts in their spare time
I did theatre in high school with no particular desire to do it as a professional career, and I agree completely. I love them all, but their attention-whoring and spotlight mongering can get extremely irritating. They're also extremely cliquey.
And I know, a lot of people are cliquey and a lot of people get annoying when they're overly determined and competitive in their field. But drama kids are just over the top.
Nothing wrong with getting into character though. That's what acting is.
And I know, a lot of people are cliquey and a lot of people get annoying when they're overly determined and competitive in their field. But drama kids are just over the top.
Nothing wrong with getting into character though. That's what acting is.
Llamaaa
I think he meant wannabe professional actors, but they are only in amateur dramatics, which is why all of the "losing character" business is irritating. I wouldn't call someone doing a uni play an "actor"- I'd call them a student who acts in their spare time
Exactly.
Thanks.
If they're the stage-school type, yes. I don't know why but all the ones who I've come across are horribly precocious. Yes, I love acting, and I went to drama classes, but the all-singing, all-dancing lot just seem to be completely fake. There's no 'natural' acting or personality there at all.
...Obviously generalising here.
...Obviously generalising here.
Ugh- YES the stage-school type, always showing off- trying to out-do each other, arrogant aswell
I had a friend at school, who thought she was so great at singing and acting and in all honesty she was rubbish.
She went to an audition for a play, they told her that she had no hope and just started goign off at her.
She is absolutely useless and had always been saying, oh I'll be famous etc
. I'm so glad I don't have to put up with her going on anymore!
She went to an audition for a play, they told her that she had no hope and just started goign off at her.
She is absolutely useless and had always been saying, oh I'll be famous etc
. I'm so glad I don't have to put up with her going on anymore!sweetlovinchick2k1
I had a friend at school, who thought she was so great at singing and acting and in all honesty she was rubbish.
She went to an audition for a play, they told her that she had no hope and just started goign off at her.
She is absolutely useless and had always been saying, oh I'll be famous etc. I'm so glad I don't have to put up with her going on anymore!
She went to an audition for a play, they told her that she had no hope and just started goign off at her.
She is absolutely useless and had always been saying, oh I'll be famous etc
. I'm so glad I don't have to put up with her going on anymore!There was a girl like that in my school- except she actually is famous now...
Wannabe actors? You mean like the cast of High School Musical?
Acting is all about pretending.
They're called thesps, darling.
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