Becca Su • VO

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LA based, non-union voice actor with an a cappella/show choir/STEM background • gamer 🎮 reader 📖 foodie 🍜 • she/her • ESFJ ☀️ beccasu.com

Bryan Cranston on auditions, from his autobiography Life in Parts
Breck suggested that I focus on process rather than outcome. I wasn't going to the audition to get anything: a job or money or validation. I wasn't going to compete with the other guys. I was going to give something. I wasn't there to get a job. I was there to do a job. Simple as that. I was there to give a performance. If I attached to the outcome, I was setting myself up to expect, and thus to fail.
My job was to focus on character. My job was to be interesting. My job was to be compelling. Take some chances. Serve the text. Enjoy the process.
And this wasn't some semantic sleight of hand, it wasn't some subtle form of barter or gamesmanship.
There was to be no predicting or manipulating, no thinking of the outcome. Outcome was irrelevant. I couldn't afford any longer to approach my work as a means to an end.
Once I made the switch, I was no longer a supplicant.
I had power in any room I walked into. Which meant I could relax. I was free.