【英语时差8,16】Dream Job – Actor 梦想职业-演员 （2）（在线收听）

It’s jumping in with both feet, you have to be very brave, and youhave to try and do something that you think will make you stand out,and also show your range and it’s a really difficult thing to get right. If an actor wants to get some work, then he or she must have an agent. And here is Barry Burnett, agent to some very well known TV stars in the UK. What could he do for someone new to the business? First of all I would make sure that you have the right photographs. Photographs are very important tools of the trade. I mean if a part comes up, if I receive a part that I think you would be right for, and I've got the right photograph, I'll send it off and hopefully persuade the casting director to meet you for this particular part. Dan Stevens is one of the lucky ones who has been getting quite a lot of job offers. But it’s never easy. Finding the jobs are hard. You have to read scripts and immerse yourself in these projects and roles. You go along into meeting and you have to communicate a passion for that piece, and a real understanding of that role and you leave the room you have to completely forget about it. Otherwise it’ll eat you up, because more often than not, you don't get the job, and that’s something you’ll have to live with as well, is living with pretty regular rejection. I’m delighted that it was the number one job, because it’s my number one job, I can’t think of anything else I want to do. I suppose at its best you're an entertainer, a storyteller, a magician in some ways and it's really really exciting. But at its worst it's frustrating and disappointing and there can be some really hard times – but the highs are very high and the lows are very low.