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Question: Please Answer! I Have Alot Of Questions About The Acting Bis!.!?
What Exactly does a Acting agent do!?
Do you have to audition for a agent!?
When You audition for a usual part in a tv show or something is it most of the time in front of alot of people or kind of like american idol when they bring you in a room!?Www@QuestionHome@Com


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Well, an acting agent is practically necessary for the business!. See, agents have connections with major studios for TV, film, and commericals!. Without an agent, getting a job is near impossible!. They set up all your audtitions, for a fee which is probably somewhere around 10% of your acting checks!. Yes, you have to audition for any good agent!. If you see an advertisement for an agency that only requires you to pay with no audition, it's a sham!. Real good agencies want to make sure they have good talent so they make money because real agencies don't get paid a lot until their actors get jobs!. And when you actually audition for parts, it's almost always in a small room!. I've never seen it any other way!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

I mean no disrespect, but you can probably see hundreds who come here daily, asking about agents and agencies!. I also mean no disrespect to answer # 1, but I can analogize the situation!.

Hopefully you'll GET IT!. Agencies/Agents, even legit ones, are tied into inside info, within the industry/craft, perhaps more easily than the layman!. In my opinion, I can equate them to a CLUB,,, so much like Oil Lobbyists/Oil importers/Politicians, that hold each others hands, as WE submit to paying whatever is asked!.

Certainly those sanctioned and used by the various orgs,,, SAG,AFTRA,EQUITY, etc!. , might be more inclined to be considered legit!. THEY make $$$ when YOU make $$$!. and 10% of ZERO is hardly a reason to keep a client!.

AM IDOL is likely the worst example of legit auditioning!. I can't see how it matters however, unless you have some FEAR!?

CASTING, whether Overseen by a Director or not, is most efficiently done by committee,,,which by the way, fails in our countries Political structure!. I think you should assume that those involved in casting you, have individual ideas of the part, the character, and the context in how you present yourself as a viable commodity!. So much like a Trial Jury, with the director as the Foreperson, a consensus is the object in reaching a decision!.Www@QuestionHome@Com