What is the biggest problem with Hollywood today?
You know I think the biggest problem is that a lot of people actually want the crap the hollywood machine turns out. Not all of us of course. But the majority of movie goers get scared if they don’t recognize the actors in a movie of if they don’t see a Mount Saint Helens size fireball behind those recognizable faces on the poster. This business is fear driven. Studios are always hedging their bets. You can’t blame them all the time, it’s a business. But the impulse to plug in recognizable faces into new TV shows isn’t very refreshing and that’s what kills viewership. That’s my take at least. It’s a crap shoot. The problem is most of us don’t know what we want so the studios do their best to figure that out for us and subsequently give us the lowest common denominator most of the time. Do you have any advice for aspiring actors? Be honest. Aim for making the audience believe you not like you because they’ll love you if they feel you’re sincere. Don’t do it for the attention. I see so m
