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Using the past to grow as an actor is one of the smartest things you can do to launch your acting career. You discover how to become a better actor. A List Mentor Lera has plenty of good tips, even ways you can become a better actor at home.

Knowing the parts you can play is one of the major challenges you encounter when starting an acting career. Many actors struggle for years, submitting their headshots for roles and hoping to hear a callback.

What if you don’t like how you look in headshots? What can you do about it? It’s a challenge you want to know how to overcome. Your headshots represent you to the casting agencies. If you don’t feel good about them, casting directors will know just by the way you look in your photos. It sounds crazy but it’s true.

You are going to pay some money for decent headshots. They typically cost an average of $600. You have to retake your headshots every six months to a year, or whenever you alter your looks. In an average year, you will easily spend $1200 just on photos.

A-list Mentor Lera loves to spill her tips on monologues. She is originally from Siberia and today lives her film industry dream. She knows what challenging times are. Her tips work for men and women of all ages because she’s learned from experience.

Many actors go through tough times to make it in film. The solution through tough times is to listen to people like Lera who have been through it.

Your headshot represents you as an actor, so you must research photographers. Everyone claims they can take good headshots, but not everyone can. The film industry is a fast-paced business. Casting will only look at your headshots for a few seconds before deciding about you. You want to stand out to casting directors. A professional headshot will get you noticed.

This means you need to be ready to pay money. A-list Mentor Lera paid $1200 for her most recent headshots.

It might seem a little strange for the FIF Into The Industry Certification program to spend time on crazy confidence calls. Is it crazy though, or is it brilliant? Maybe it’s crazy and brilliant at the same time. The ending will tell, and we won’t give it away. But it will be GOOD! Come see!

Emmy Award winner Janet Urban has given us a rare opportunity to glimpse the confidence work she’s done with countless successful film professionals.

There are going to just be some of those days when new production assistants are working with rude producers and directors in film. Rude professionals can come off as arrogant and egotistical. Production assistants who learn to be sensitive to the pressures of a film set can win over the toughest people.

People starting out in the film industry are often afraid of how they will look to others on set. So many concerns run through their minds. It can be anything from worrying if they are doing their job right to hoping people simply like them.

You want to work in the film industry badly. You send them e-mails without getting any response. If you do get a response, it leads nowhere.

You send out e-mails until it seems like the film industry is completely closed to new people.

You can overcome shyness and dominate in the film industry. The film industry is full of top professionals who face the same fears that you do. The only difference between them and you is that they learn techniques to work through their shyness in order to make it.

The film industry greatly rewards go-getter people, those who are willing to pursue their dreams with confidence. You want to put forward a self-assured and confident personality. You need to network with people to succeed. If you are a shy person, though, you wonder if you can make it in film. The worst part about it is that you can feel like you’re the only one who is shy, but you aren’t.