Your agent calls with an audition. You confirm. You arrive on time, fully prepared. You walk into the room, and, whoops, you blow it. You walk out feeling horrible about what just happened. Maybe your nerves got the better of you. Maybe you went off script. Maybe you fumbled over your lines. And maybe you feel like a failure. The lesson here is this: Get over it. Move on. You can’t change what happened, so move forward. The repercussions will be far worse if you try to back-pedal or take that negative energy into your future work. Do not lose your confidence and sense of self. Bad days happen. Bad auditions happen. It’s part of the job. Only the team for which you’re auditioning really knows how it went. I’ve had actors not receive a callback who said they “knocked it out of the park,” and I’ve actors book jobs who said they “blew it” at the audition. I once had an actor e-mail me directly to apologize for her poor audition, not knowing yet she was on the callback sheet. By doing that, she brought negative attention to herself for no reason. Talk to your agent, not the casting director. If the audition was so bad that it’s necessary for the casting director to call
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