Speaker 1: It's Wendy Elaine Wright, the Hollywood Talent Manager in Los Angeles, California. And I am just getting on to the next video because I don't know if you're new to my channel. My name is Wendy. I've been a talent manager for years and years in Hollywood. I was an agent before that. Welcome to my channel. I'm really happy to have you here. And I'm here just to give you sincere, honest, truthful guidance if you want to be an actor. Now, I'll tell you what a talent manager does, right? Let's let's just say it's a normal tomorrow's Wednesday. It's a normal day. I'm out. OK, actually, I'll use this example. I was in Best Buy today. And this gorgeous kid is 17, 18. Gorgeous kid. He's had the most beautiful hair. And I was like, oh, my God, you have beautiful hair. And he said, oh, my God, you do, too. And I thought that kid has a great look. So what does the manager do? A manager finds people that have a great look or great talent. They go to film festivals. They watch movies. They look for actors. They go to plays. They go to showcases. They find people at the Best Buy at, you know, your waiter at a restaurant. They go to acting classes and watch the actors work. They get recommendations from friends or agents. And we collect actors that we think are really great. Like so we think we see something special in an actor. We sign them to our roster. And then my job as a manager. Is to develop that talent to get them ready for an agent. So personally, I love developing actors like I love developing actors. I like taking them from scratch. They've never been on TV before. And I like getting them to the point where they're on TV. That makes me really happy. So that's what fuels me. That's what I do. Right. So you take that actor and you go, OK, now, dude, you need acting classes. So the first thing I'm going to do is tell you, here's a bunch of acting classes. I don't know which one is going to be right for you. So I want you to go try out a couple of these and see who you like. It's called auditing. When you take a free acting class and you get to watch the class, watch the teachers and you see if it feels good. See if it challenges you. See if it scares you. Should scare you a little bit. It should be like, oh, that seems tough. That's good. That means that's a good class. Get in it. You want to you want a hard class so you can learn to get better. You don't want easy classes. You want something that's going to challenge you. All right. So now I tell that actor. Got to get in classes once, twice, three times a week. You're going to be doing that for years and years and years. So let's pick a class and stick with it for six months and then another class for six months. Another class for three months, another class for two years, whatever. Now you're training. You're getting good as an actor. All of you watching. This is what you need to be doing. Training, getting good as an actor. Your job is not to take classes just for the hell of it. Your job is to take classes to get great acting classes. And acting. The better you get, the harder you work, the more you practice, the better actor you will be. And if you are a good actor, people will want to hire you. People will want to sign you. So take classes to learn how to be great. Then I say, OK, we need headshots. We need headshots. We need professional headshots. So I work with the actor to make sure we understand what kind of roles they're going to play. Make sure they dress appropriately for those roles. Make sure they're thinking thoughts when they shoot those pictures. I usually go with my clients to take their headshots because I want to make sure they come out right. I want to make sure that the attitude, the energy, the emotion, the mood is right in the session. I want to help make my actor feel comfortable and I want certain looks and I want to make sure I get them. And if the actor is paying $400 for headshots, I want them to walk out of that session with great shots. All right. Now we've got great headshots. The actor's taking classes. I need them to create an actor's access profile. Some people say, well, I'm on casting this and that. No. Actors access, casting networks, backstage. All new actors can start with those. Casting networks, actors access, backstage. Well, which one should I be on? You're going to need all three at some point. Your job is to find work. So if you have to look at all of them every day to find audition opportunities, then that's what you do. If you can only afford one, then you have to understand, actors access is for TV and film roles. Casting networks is mostly for commercials, music videos, web series, and two different types of jobs, right? Commercial agents usually sign you first. So if you want to start out, get casting networks and get into a really good commercial acting class. Okay. Now, you're training. You've got headshots. You've got your actors access, your casting networks. Now I need proof of your acting. I need proof. I need great clips that show me great acting. If you do comedy, I need a 30-second clip of you doing some funny shit, right? I need a funny scene. If you do drama, I need a 30-second scene of you playing a cop, lawyer, doctor, teacher, student, football player, whatever it is you do. I need 30 seconds of that. Then we upload those clips onto those profiles. Now, I, as a manager, am going to teach you how to use actors access and make sure you start submitting yourself every single day for short films, student films, web series, industrials, voiceovers. What else is there? Non-union feature films. Get work wherever you can, however you can, and build that resume. My job as a manager is to get you ready. And help you become marketable so that now I can get you an agent. Okay? Now I can get you an agent. You have a great package, which means head shots, acting clips, and your resume. Looks great. Now I can pick up the phone and start talking to the agents I know. Hey, this girl Jessica or this guy Tom. Oh my God, they're so good. They're so talented. I've got their package together. Can I submit them to you? Yes, Wendy, go ahead. Thank you. By email, I submit the actor's materials to the agent. It's a yes or a no. Well, we already have someone like that. Or no, my God, I love this actor. Looking for someone like that. Let's set up a Zoom meeting. Now I'm getting my actors that I've signed that I'm managing them. So my job is to control all these things. Control, coordinate, present opportunities and headshot opportunities and acting classes and teach them how everything works. And be in charge of managing their career. I earn 15% to do that. 15% of whatever the actor makes. They don't pay me until they book a job. Right? So all of this time I've been developing that actor. I'm doing it for free. For free. That is a very special word that my friend Jake O'Flaherty came up with. He works at Dangerfield Talent Agency. He's an associate there. And we all use that word now at Winter Circle. For free. Everything I just told you I do for that actor that I found, I've been doing it for free. And I will be until they book a job. And then I earn 15%. So if they book a job that only pays $1,000, I just made $150 for like a year of developing them. You see how it works, folks? All right. So now I've contacted these agents that I work with. Imagine that every manager you know, well, you maybe don't know a lot of managers, but I know a lot of managers. Every manager has a ton of agents that they work with, that they like to work with. So first we go to the agents we know and we pitch our clients and we say, are you interested? Are you interested? Are you interested? Are you interested? And we get our client an agent. Now that agent starts submitting them for jobs on TV and film. And I work with the actor and the agent works with the actor and I work with the agent and we all work as a team. So the agent gets the actor a job, an audition. Let me start. Rewind. The agent takes that picture that we got and sends it to the casting director. The casting director goes, oh, I love it. Let's have them audition for this show. I'll send you the script. Great. The agent sends my client, our client, the script. The actor puts themselves on tape for that job. I watch the tape as the manager. Is it any good? It's not good? Go redo it. I have notes. So get it in early so I can make some notes. Go redo that because that doesn't work. That doesn't work. That doesn't work. Now it's good. Good. We send it to the agent. The agent sends it to casting. Casting watches hundreds of hundreds of tapes. And they select 50. They're going to audition and call back and talk to 50 actors out of 2,000 submissions. The job of the actor is not to wonder, oh, did I book it? How did I do in the audition? Was it this? It's too intense. Desperate. Thirsty. Get a drink of water and relax. What you do as an actor, your job is to learn that script. Practice that material. Figure out who that character is, what that character wants, and give it everything you've got. Confidently go into that room and deliver that performance. You've been hired-ish. Let's just say you've been hired. When you get an audition, think of it like this. I got the job of auditioning. I've been hired to do this audition. Great. I'm going to go in and I'm going to fucking nail this audition. I'm going to thank them for the opportunity and then I'm going to leave and go on with my life to the next audition and the next audition, the next acting class, my next trip to the beach, hang out with my friends, my boyfriend, my girlfriend, play with my dog, go for a run, go lift some weights, travel, read a book. Next audition. I'm going to learn it. I'm going to do the best damn job I can. I'm going to go in there. I'm going to nail it. Goodbye. Thank you for the opportunity. Your job is to audition. When you get the call that you booked the job, now your job is to go on set and do it in front of the camera, in front of the cast, the crew, the first AD, the second AD, everybody. You do your work and you leave. And then you don't have a job again. And then you keep auditioning. You could audition a thousand times and book ten jobs. You could audition a hundred times and book one job. That is the life of the actor. And if you don't want that life, do not be an actor. Don't be an actor. Because you have to learn to love the audition. You have to learn to love the audition. You have to use the audition like it's the performance. Like that's the time you get to play that character. It might be the only time you ever play that role. But if you book the role, then you'll get to play it again. I hope this is helpful. I wanted to break down exactly what a manager does and how we work with actors. And I want you to join my Facebook group, Talent Managers for Actors. Because we are teaching actors the business of acting. And we're teaching actors how things work. And you can ask any question you want and we answer them 365 days a year, 24-7. And if you want hands-on guidance, like I want you to help me, Wendy. I need help, help, help. Join Hollywood Winner's Circle Academy. Because it's an online school that teaches you exactly what to do. But you don't just hear it. We show you. And we watch what you're doing and we correct it. We guide you. We help you. And we make sure you get it right. We make sure your package is amazing. And then we introduce you to agents and managers. And casting directors. And working actors. And you can learn. Learn how this business works. Because, honey. If you don't understand this business, you cannot succeed in it. Think about that. If you want to be a doctor and you don't understand medicine, how on earth are you going to be a doctor? You want to play soccer for a living but you don't understand the game of soccer? You're not playing soccer for a living. You want to be on the NBA? You don't know nothing about basketball? Or how the team works? Or what the positions do? Or what your job is? Your job is you're not going to play professional basketball. If you're watching my channel, you probably want to be a professional actor. Which means you want to get paid to work on television and in films. And in order to do that, you need to learn how to act. You need great materials. And you need to understand this business. Hollywood Winner's Circle will teach you all of that. And I hope you'll join us there at HollywoodWinnerCircle.com. I hope to see you in class. I love you guys. I believe in you. I want you to be successful. That is the reason I'm here. Alright, I'm heading out. I'm going to go binge watch Euphoria. Because that's a hell of a show. See you later.