I know a couple actors who haven’t landed a role in like 4 years but other actors are constantly in shyt.
I def think most are fukking for roles especially early on unless it’s some bootlegged ass shyt
this is always been my problem with the arts.
There is no disqualifying factor among artists. Everything an actor, or painter, or musician, or Director, etc , does can be replicated by tens of millions of equally qualified people. The defining characteristic between them getting a gig has very little to do with their artistic talent and moreso to do with their ability to grease the social wheels of their patrons. The mere fact that any random can be an actor or musician in a few months is troubling.
ive personally been artistically inclined and well endowed in acting, sculpting, and music but i threw all that sht in the bushes for a stem role which can rigorously disqualify other applicants. Its a field where your merits get you put on , not favorability. Dont get me wrong here, at the upper echelons of stem , lots of folks are fukking and sucking up (both figuratively and literally) inside stem fields at the VP level , but that behavior is nonexistent at the early and mid tier levels.