Dear friends, please, correct my text. Part 2. The other important thing is communication skills of the actor. Actor doesn’t work alone. Somebody writes the words he is pronouncing, somebody is playing right behind him and so on. Actor must be initiative but at the same time, he must obey. Conflicts are very common in a creative process, so it is very useful for actor to have highly developed communication skills. • Do you consider yourself as a team player? Why do you think so? What is a teamwork in acting means to you? / or What personally you can do to inspire your colleagues or to make your team work better? • Please, tell us about your last project. • What is better: trying to avoid the conflict at all or arguing from time to time? By the way, communication skills include not only being able to tell right things but also being able to listen well. • Ask your candidate to describe the way the director should help the actor to get used to the part. • Or just ask him to express his impression of the interview: it will show his attention and interest. Flexibility - is the soft skill we must not forget to check. “Relax, take it easy” must be the anthem of acting dude. The concept of project can be changed several times, the lines can be replaced. The actor must be prepared to face all these inconveniences with the smile on his face. • Tell us about your failure. What had this situation taught you? • Are you risky person? Why do you think so? • Can you tell us the most useful critics you’ve ever received? I would also like to mention honesty (or loyalty). Actors are very ambitious and often they work really a lot trying to cover as much projects as possible. Also they combine work with training, so It’s very important not to lose the connection with the actor when he’s hiding other jobs or trying to work with your competitor, for example. • What is your biggest fear about our project? • Can I appeal to your recent employer and have a little talk with him? • What is professional betrayal for you?

Dear friends, please, correct my text. Actors are the people I’m really willing to communicate with! 10 years of director’s experience in my own amateur theatre gave me the opportunity to feel the spirit of acting and to understand the actors’ motives and hidden desires. I’ve organized more than 50 castings and produced 10 big plays. So that’s my favorite task in your list:) Actors and actresses are usually very bright, smart and charismatic people. They know how to charm and they know how to make you fall in love with them in a moment. But making a project is not a moment, it’s a long time of hard work - sometimes full of doubts and conflicts. So the first soft skill I would mention is responsibility (discipline). It’s important to come to rehearsals on time, to learn your lines by heart, to keep fit and to look great on camera every day. Also the actor must be able to fight the routine when inspiration is over. To check this skill I would ask the following questions: • Can you tell me about your hardest project? Why was it so hard? How did you cope with the difficulties? • You are working on the project for two months, and it seems to you that scripts are getting worse, and the idea is not relevant anymore. Will you do something with it? What exactly will you do? • What will you do when you realize that you are extremely late for the important shooting? Mostly actors are ambitious and self-confident but sometimes the Hollywood cover hides a very vulnerable soul. Therefore, actors can envy and be jealous, they can feel offended very often, and this is the other side of their emotional and dependent job. It’s very important for every actor to keep bad vibes under control, not to let them spoil the psychological climate in the working group. So the second soft skill I would mention is emotional stability (or stress resistance). Let’s ask our actors: • The director is criticizing you all the time. How will you react? • You don’t like your partner in the long term project. Moreover, he seems to feel the same for you. How to make it okay for the entire group to keep on working? • What is the worst thing in your work? Or • What irritates you in your work?

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