One of the things that I cannot fathom is young actors who will not audition and won't read.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
My advice to young actors is to push yourself and to aspire to be great.
Most young actors, that's all they're trying to do: Get better at acting and be able to keep doing it. And that doesn't work out for most people.
I don't want to be one of those young actors who is around for a couple of years and melts off the scene.
Child actors going on to become adult actors never really works, apart from a few. Jodie Foster was the exception.
I feel so sorry for younger actors who aren't able to have the opportunities that I had, starting out in repertory theatre. It's really tough on young actors now.
Casting young people is always so difficult, and they got it so right in 'Game of Thrones.' All the young actors are amazingly talented and so professional.
The auditioning process is one in which the actor gets very little information about almost every element of it.
My characters have to talk, or they're out. They audition in early scenes. If they can't talk, they're given less to do, or thrown out.
There's a lot of young actors and people who have success very quickly who kind of expect it or don't have the experience to really appreciate it.
You have to keep persevering. An actor goes to a lot of auditions and doesn't get the part.