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Scott Sedita's Ultimate Guide To Making It In Hollywood: And New York, Atlanta, Vancouver, Chicago, and Any Other Industry City! - Paperback | Diverse Reads

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Scott Sedita's Ultimate Guide To Making It In Hollywood lays out everything an actor needs to know to launch and maintain an Acting career in any "Industry City."

Tapping into his forty years of experience in the business, renowned Acting Coach, Author, and Motivational Speaker Scott Sedita breaks down the Three Steps to Success: Talent, Confidence and Perseverance, and shows how these elements work together to build and sustain a successful acting career.

Further, Scott takes a unique approach in highlighting the many challenges actors face when pursuing their dream in show business. Scott explains how actors must identity and avoid the Three Ways to Sabotage Your Career: Distractions, Addictions and Wrong Actions.

With his humorous, no-holds-barred, tough love approach, Scott guides the reader with practical, easily accessible advice, tools and tasks as well as numerous Success Stories of famous actors he’s worked with and how they made it to the top!

ISBN-13: 9780977064168

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Atides Publishing

Publication Date: 10-28-2022

Pages: 396

Product Dimensions: 6.00(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.75(d)

Scott Sedita is an award-winning, highly in-demand Acting Coach and Motivational Speaker. He is the owner of Scott Sedita Acting Studios in Los Angeles where he works with actors from all over the world. Scott is the author of the internationally bestselling book, The Eight Characters of Comedy: A Guide to Sitcom Acting & Writing, which has been translated into many different languages. Scott has travelled the world teaching his comedic technique "The Sedita Method." Scott is also the first acting coach to develop an acting-based app, called "Actor Audition App." Scott has starred in the E! reality series Fight For Fame, VH1's New York Goes to Hollywood, and MTV's Adventures In Hollyhood. He was also seen on Showtime's La La Land, as well as MTV's My Perfect Life, USA Network's Character Fantasy, Fox Sports Network's Helmets Off, and Bravo's Faking It. A graduate of Boston University, Scott has more than forty years of experience in the entertainment industry. He began his career in New York as a talent agent, where he helped to launch the careers of many of today's top stars, including Courteney Cox, Matt LeBlanc, Christopher Meloni, Teri Polo, Dylan Walsh, Jerry O'Connell, and Vincent D'Onofrio, just to name a few. In 1990, Scott relocated to Los Angeles where he worked as a sitcom writer for Howie Mandel, Bobcat Goldthwait, and many others. In the mid-90s, Scott worked as a casting director for Danny Goldman Casting until launching his Scott Sedita Acting Studios in 1998. Scott has worked with many of today's top stars, including Holly Taylor, Parker Young, Lana Condor, Michael Weatherly, Brandon Routh, Meagan Tandy, Ross Butler, Joseph David-Jones, Haley Bennett, Charles Melton, Nelly, Josh Duhamel, 50 Cent, Chace Crawford, Paula Abdul, Kevin Alejandro, Sydney Sweeney, and many more. Scott has appeared on numerous TV talk shows. He's been the featured story in such publications as The Hollywood Reporter, Soap Opera Digest, Inside TV, and Backstage, among numerous others. He has also appeared on CNN and programs like On the Red Carpet, Entertainment Tonight, Extra, and Access Hollywood. KTLA Channel 5 did a story on Scott entitled "Where Young Hollywood Goes and Studies" and referred to him as "one of the hottest coaches."

Table of Contents

My Story 1

A Cautionary Tale 15

An Actor's Gift 19

The Journey of Looking Inward 21

Section 1

The Want 27

The Want: Workbook Section 30

Your Actor Contract 37

The Three Steps to Success 39

Talent 41

The Acting Gene 43

Self-Evaluation Scale: Talent 45

Welcome to Acting Class 58

Talent: Workbook Section 72

Bonus Track: WOFRAIM 82

Confidence 85

Self-Evaluation Scale: Confidence 87

Finding Your Comfort Zone 94

Observe Confidence in Others 100

The Power of Affirmations 103

Confidence: Workbook Section 110

Bonus Track: Knowing Your Type 119

Perseverance 135

Self-Evaluation Scale: Perseverance 139

Perseverance Also Comes From… 144

The Four P's of Perseverance 147

Mission #1: Get Representation 151

Mission #2: Get Acting Work 165

Help Your Reps Help You 170

Perseverance: Workbook Section 183

Bonus Track: The Luck Factor 191

Acting Career Diet 197

Section 2

Career CHallenges 201

Fear 205

The Two Types of Fear 215

The Fear of Failure 217

The Fear of Success 222

Fear: Workbook Section 231

The Three Ways to Sabotage Your Career 235

Distractions 237

Money Distractions 240

Family Distractions 251

Romantic Relationship Distractions 268

Addictions 281

Where Do Your Addictions Come From? 283

Alcohol 286

Drugs 291

Eating Disorders 296

Resources 306

Wrong Actions 307

Consciously Choosing Fear 313

Staying Uninformed 318

Being Unprepared 325

Procrastinating 331

Showing Up Late 335

Making Excuses 341

Getting Stuck in Negativity 347

Not Being a Team Player 355

Acting Unprofessionally 362

Doing Nothing 369

Section 3

Believe 374

Hollywood Success Stories 375

That's What It Takes to Be an Actor 376

You Really Don't Want to See Me Dance 380

Now They're Gonna Pull My Ski Mask Off 385

For the First Time, I Feel Like an Actor 389

One Day, I'm Going to Be the Next Meryl Streep 392

About the Author 395