I got casting couched by Big Harv now I'm rich

>>220585436
I did a summer internship several years ago where I worked for the production company that owned the rights to the works of Robert E Howard (Conan the Barbarian, among others), and mainly did script coverages and made coffee. On the weekends, I also helped out with open casting call for some web series that I never heard of and never caught the title for, so I don’t even know what to look up.

A guy I knew out there put in a word for me with his boss at a company that does the conversion to blu ray/streaming for a QA starting position, and the guy called me in for an interview…three days after my internship ended, and I had already driven cross-country back home. I couldn’t afford to go back, so that was the end of it.

>>220585436
I'm making a short film in June. Going to drop 7 grand on it. No other details will be given but it'll probably be mid although I hope its kino

The industry is dead but not in a "whoa crazy story" kind of way, more like "if Brenda in development doesn't like your script, it's not getting made."
Which means everything will continue to be garbage until Brenda gets fired. That's all folks.

>>220585436
This director who shan't be named asked me to remove my shoes to make things less tense. I did it and I thought the interview went well but eventually they went with Margaret Qualley

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>>220585436
i once vomited near the Y when we hiked up the hill and hopped the fence to get close to the sign. thats the most i've contributed to hollywood

>>220585762
was it kino

I got raped by Bryan Singer and it was awesome

>>220585918
nobody brought me an award after, so no i dont think so

>>220585436
Never pitched a movie but I pitched a game to a VC once.

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>walk into audition
>bunch of big wigs and fat cats smoking cigars and sneering at me
>"okay kid, let's see what ya got"
>I stammer my way through "The Sun Will Come Out Tomorrow, Bet Your Bottom Dollar That Tomorrow There'll Be Sun" from Annie
>they all laugh at me and cut me off halfway through the song
>"You really thought you could make it in this town? Forget it kid! You're outta here!"
>one of the producers puts his cigar out on my forehead
>their laughter rings in my ears as I stumble out
it was awful

>>220585436
sent my scripts to random person who will remain unnamed

hear nothing

see movie with half of my ideas in it non of my dialouge

mfw i got premise fucked down to individual scenes

>>220585613
epic we shld restart swg so you can spitball dialogue im sure some actual dialogue chads frequent here and could spitball with you

even if you cant find people to deliver the lines it might give you some ideas

>>220587249
did by any chance any of the characters face the camera and state your full name and social security number?

>>220587249
That's my worst nightmare.

I know if I pitched my game idea as a movie it would be stolen in five seconds flat. It's probably best to make a comic or something out of it first just to get the idea out there first with my name on it than pitch it as a script that will be promptly stolen.

>>220587337
funny you should mention this a door was involved and a exposition dump took place

>>220585436
Aspiring writerfag here. Had the dumb idea that I had to be in LA to do it, and shit’s so expensive here that I effectively have no time to write. Hollywood good, LA bad is my current take

>>220587294
I got some actors im rehearsing with

>>220585436
Not me, but
>At screenwriting panel
>Some indyfag telling people the process of getting an agent
>Hand goes up
>Some poor kid asks how he's supposed to get an agent when he just spent 4 months in LA only to find that they're all busy "making sure the old talent gets fed."
>Indyfag who described himself as a hard Lefty launches into a bootstraps speech to make Mike Rowe proud.
>Never addresses the kid's question.

>>220587811
It's the kids fault for not being born into showbusiness

>>220585436
i was unemployed so i figured if i got enough background acting jobs i could maybe work my way in to more serious roles. i had two background gigs; first was angry protester at the Wall St. scenes of Zero Day, that robert de niro tv show that came out and made zero impact. it was shot for summer but it was really cold and windy that day, easily one of the worst days of my life, standing outside in the cold for 12 hours with only 1 break. i was shaking so bad for so long i was sore afterwards. i almost got to hold a sign but i had a blemish so the guy told me no. cool thing is i got to meet Barbara Res, a woman who worked closely with Donald Trump for a while, as she was also working background. the second was background 60's festival goer for the Newport NJ folks festival in the Bob Dylan movie. i got fit in the coolest pair of jeans i've ever worn in my life, vintage 60's clothes are awesome. the day of the shoot we were bussed out into a really sunny field for 12 hours with a few breaks, but everyone got sun burnt. the back section i was in ended up getting replaced with CGI anyways. accidentally walked by Fanning, and my face was disgusting with a few blemishes and red sunburnt skin, she got visibly disgusted. thats when i decided i was probably out of my depth and tried to do some short films, which sort of worked for a while but im just not a good enough actor and im not handsome enough.

>>220588132
nobody is "out of their depth" for being an extra lmao
it literally just requires you to have even less self-respect than being a cashier at walmarts

>>220585436
I didnt because kek im an actual los angeles native and have seen the transplants get chewed up all my life. Thanks for paying the rent though Ill have enough for another property soon. I would have already had it if it wasnt for Comeme and the rent moratoriun.

>>220587655
you can live cheap in LA if your rent isn't crazy. buy groceries at trader joe's, work your day job and write at night. i've written a shit-ton of scripts, some of which i think are great but the 2026 gatekeeper situation is a disaster. send queries out with Imdb contact info and you might get some reads. these days, it'll ultimately come down to whether Karen in development likes your writing.

>>220589064
I got myself some pretty high rent before some personal shit and the fires went down, to be entirely fair
Hoping to move in with a friend and send out queries to said Karens from afar, which apparently can work (question’s just if that gimps rates of acceptance, even if not to zero)

>>220585930
kike loving homo

>>220588886
thats what i mean, i have self respect, i wasn't able to whore myself out for that long for only $200.

>>220585762
Your contriubution was probably better than most of the sludge that Hollywood releases these days.

>>220585436
I never tried to make it, but I had a lot of friends that were. I once went to a party with a bunch of producers and shit and they were legit the worst people I've ever met in my life.

>>220585436
My best friend went out to LA and worked on tons of reality shows and game shows, rising from a PA to a mid level producer. Then the covid/writers strike blows landed and he's now a stay at home dad, god bless him. All of his friends in production/editing/acting ran out of money and/or switched jobs because of the industry employment crunch out there.

>>220590139
Also his best friend out there was an editor and a superwoketard but would quietly admit that DEI TV directors kept fucking things up and causing the editors to have to save their episodes.

>>220585436
Nolan North ordered pizza from the place I work at. I was the cashier twice. I've never played Uncharted, but I know that's a Naughty Dog property, so the next time he showed up, I asked him if he could push for a Jak and Daxter game..

He asked for some parm. We were all out of packs, so I was ready to give him one of the parm shakers, telling him I would just buy a new one. he said that was too much, and we ended up giving him a small plastic ramikan filled from the shaker.

>>220589791
I mean 200 usd a day is arguably worth it when starting out

>>220585436
I was a really cute kid and could make people laugh. My mom took me to a couple auditions after we talked about the idea of me getting into acting. She got spooked by some interaction she never told me about and basically said “yeah you aren’t getting into this”

>>220589791
$200/day but what’s hourly?

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>>220585436
I was a second camera assistant and occasionally a first assistant for about 10 years. I worked on life time, hallmark movies, true crime shows. Nothing interesting, just slop. But it was fun. Hours where ass and pay was shit. But I constantly met beautiful women and got to go on lots of adventures. Lots of good memories. I miss it sometimes

>>220588132
post your short films anon!
don't let your memes be dreams!

>>220585591
Dang.

>>220585436
I can barely make it out of my house most days.

>>220591838
>But I constantly met beautiful women
Did you have the sex with them, saar?

>>220585436
No, I have never been south of 62º North

>>220592167
I fucked around with make-up artists all the time, they where always the biggest sluts on set. Actresses where strictly off limits though, only the producers get to touch them

>>220592262
Shut the fuck up, Julia roberts married the camera guy. Just cause you have no rizz dont

>>220590971
What a square! I would be getting worshipped orally.

>>220590971
>She got spooked by some interaction she never told me about
what could it be

I'm a stunt actor for B tier /tv/ shows.

>>220593450
That was a long time ago bro. Different time

used to work mainstream, now I work full time on a porn crew for one of the big companies. it's great, I'll never go back.

>>220589826
>>220590971
These are the very same people that are trying to teach morality to the country and are trying to import export it to the rest of the world. They are the paragon embodiment of the progressive left.

>>220585436
I have a screenplay in which OP's mom gets three BBCs in all three holes, it's a metaphor for lost American idealism

>>220594232
Somebody give this man a budget and a crew!

>be a model (nothing big, some music videos and indoor ads of a few franchises)
>did some works in America
>time passed
>career is going nowhere
>manager told me I should try to be an actor
>sister lived in America and said there was a push to make Texas into a new California to produce movies and stuff
>there was a problem with the more permanent visa (the old one was a model visa where the agency deals with the paperwork)
>pandememe hits
>I gave up
I'm selling water pumps since 2019.

>>220585613
>I'm making a short film
I seriously hope it's horror. Any other genre and you're just lighting money on fire making shorts.

>Going to drop 7 grand on it
Why?

>>220585436
I've made a bunch of horror shorts and one of them was optioned by a studio for a feature adaptation (didn't get made). I also got attached to direct a couple of horror IPs (probably won't get made but the 25k development fees are always nice). Those shorts also led to me getting repped and my reps have moved mountains to find financing for my sub 1 million horror feature. We're shooting it in a few months in Eastern Europe.

>>220585713
tits or gtfo?

Hollywood is all nepobabies and jews money laundering. The few people who break into hollywood and ''make it'' are a very small minority. Worse odds than winning the lottery.
The highest chance of getting into hollywood is for hot women, but you need to suck miles of dick to get cast and then you have to get lucky and get cast into the right thing.

Only stupid people try to make it into hollywood without connections. If you go there you are a legit retard. If you have any worthwhile talents you should be going on youtube, twitch or kick. Make your own shit. And make it with realistic expectations. If you make your own full length movie it will suck, it will be Birdemic/AVGN tier. So make short films, make a 10 minute masterpiece. Sign up for fiver and do voice acting gigs. Write short stories and pay some guy to narrate them and upload them to youtube with spooky audio. Make your own shit.

>>220594747
whoa this guy sells water pumps

ive got a coworker who acted in like 4 episode of a borderline major modern drama series aswell as had bit parts in a handful of smaller movies, he still thinks his acting career can bounce back (hes 33) but man it looks fucking desperate rn, theres even pictures of him at red carpet events online

Calling panty sniffing anon.

>>220585591
>and I had already driven cross-country back home. I couldn’t afford to go back, so that was the end of it.
Always hate to hear bummer stories, but they happen.

>>220590871
>I mean

>>220585436
Unless you're a nepo baby there is no such thing as hollywood
All the film production is either in Canada, UK, Australia or New Zealand
If they actually film in USA it's gonna be in Georgia not Hollywood

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>>220585713
?

>>220595448
When people say Hollywood, they mean the industry, not filming locations. Every major studio is still based in LA, all talent agencies and management companies are in WeHo/Beverly Hills etc.

>>220595649
The larper is clearly talking about Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

>>220595014
Kevin Smith and the Blair Witch people had the right idea, but that was the 90s. Low budget as fuck original idea, fun indie stuff that goes viral and gets picked up. I dunno if that could work now. Maybe indie filmmakers have been replaced with "content creators." There's no audience for your film because people are too busy either watching the capeshit Disney slop they're told to watch by marketing departments, or they're watching tiktok freaks bully fast food workers, or YouTube streamers playing Fallout New Vegas for the 30th time.

Kino is dead.

>>220595014
>Write short stories and pay some guy to narrate them and upload them to youtube with spooky audio. Make your own shit.
by the time anyone here has made a penny doing this, ai will have replaced those jobs.

>>220596139
>Low budget as fuck original idea, fun indie stuff that goes viral and gets picked up. I dunno if that could work now

That's been the meta for a while now. You make no budget, DIY horror shorts and put them on YouTube, then you get a low budget horror feature financed. Curry Barker, Kane Parsons, David F. Sandberg and many others.

What character actor would you be? Be honest!

>>220585591
Did you get any pay?

>>220594098
Any nice perks? Favorite parts about it?

>>220585649
But Brenda has interests and superiors who are breathing down her neck to “bring the best only” and Brenda receives 100,000 treatments a day, and NOW has to contend with tens of thousands more that are generative AI slop that she feeds into another AI detection tool to scan for IP/AI tags that flag them for plagiarism. Brenda isn’t to blame, she’s just the masthead for a much larger issue in that studios only want sure things from confirmed people in the club.

I’ve only been in one big movie but I have attended a LOADS of red carpet events and even won a dance competition on tv.

>>220594926
Nah, I don't wanna do horror because I think it's oversaturated.But, yeah, I mean, economically, I get that, it's just, this is more of a proof of concept for a feature

>>220597859
What kind of dancing?

>>220597935
Ballroom & TikTok mostly.

>>220597682
Nah, it was all just for experience and networking. Everything was out-of-pocket, and I even went into the hole a bit just to be enrolled in the program. My dad was nice enough to cover my lodging while I was there.

>>220595967
https://www.reddit.com/r/FilmIndustryLA/
You can read about it on this subreddit
There is no industry kek

>>220597859
Xocheee will you please marry me and have my White children?

>>220597859
>>220597953
Julianna hough. You are hot but I definitely want a hot, sensual makeout session with your bestie, Nina dobrev.

I walked in with blackface on and they told me to leave or they'd call the cops. So I asked them "Is it because I am black?" I then went to the Hollywood Reporter and told me I was discriminated against on account of my skin color.

Bump

ITT neets LARPing about their fantasies with jewish hollywood diddlers

>>220597833
>But Brenda has interests
nobody cares (especially not men who should be 80% of your audience)
>and superiors who are breathing down her neck to “bring the best only”
you cannot identify quality. you are genetically lame, and yes it's your fault for having the narcissistic hubris to take the job.