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This is great. Yes more please. Thank you both for the time and wisdom.

dude great job in Red One so cool !!!!!!!!

This was really great! So much real talk that everyone should listen to right now.

Facts. 3 years ago, I told my agent not to submit me for day player or costar, only guest star. I'd be thrilled to book day player right now 🤷‍♂️

2 staches battle it out 😂 lol I've been on one since I got my first role in September, 2025 gonna be my year 🎉 hopefully I can get an agent once I get some professional headshots which I finally got the money for 😅

I love how you always appreciate your wife.

Happy Festivus

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I like how this segment pans out and shows your setup

You and Alex nailed it on the subject of the relationship with your agent. My previous agent went from being the agent who didn’t mind hearing from you to the agent that didn’t want to hear ANYTHING from you. I suppose growth does that to a person/business. So I saw both ends of the spectrum and everything in between. I look forward to parts 2 through… uh… 5?

Matt, I'm so glad we were able to sit down and chat from our POV as journeyman actors. We don't have a crystal ball, and we don't see all sides of the conversation equally, but I'm glad we're able to give some people things to think about and ponder. Look forward to the next one.

Feativus for the rest of us

This is exactly the conversation I wanted to hear from 2 people I truly admire and will always listen to. Thank you, Matt and Alex. Alex, good point on the 3 shows that wrapped up. That makes a LOT of sense. Personally, I'm ending the year extremely frustrated. Not for lack of auditions, but for REPEATED "avail checks" (even an email or two saying 'the producers REALLY like you.') for the same 2-3 shows/casting offices, over and over. I know that's a good thing, but man... multiple months, continuously? I also say that as someone who worked consistently through the height of the pandemic. So, yeah... Thank you for this convo. Looking forward to the rest of it. I hope once they all drop you'll consider making it into one full video. -Mike

Is it slow even for you

Such a great video! I really appreciate the advice in this one. It certainly resonates with me however, I still think I’m so green that I just need to put in the reps in classes for the next year or so before I worry about anything else. But for me less thinking about about scheduling classes and more actual scheduling of classes :-)

Thank you, thank you and thank you again Matthew for posting this video! I cannot tell you how the part about "having the low tolerance for risk and getting paralyzed trying to gather too much information" resonates with me. I've been on the Atlanta acting scene for a very long time and have booked a few roles here & there. I've also dabbled in writing and producing. Finally wrote and produced a couple shorts which never got completed for one reason or another (mostly funding) so they were pretty much abandoned. Then wrote and produced a music video (just for fun and the learning experience) and posted on RUclips back in 2016. One of the hardest things I've had to do ruclips.net/video/1d3wbc51fc8/видео.html but I was so dang proud that I actually finally was able to finish a project! Yes, I know 2016 was a long time ago by industry standards but life happens, but I still have some ideas that I've been putting down on paper and want to continue writing & producing. Watching this latest video from #Get Taped! was so relatable and so on time! You guys are awesome and thank you for all that you do! God Bless!

Thanks, if I didn’t overthink, I really overthink actions now. I understand how you are trying to help people and you do. But this submission can cause more over thinking and or creat overthinking. This is the only submission you’ve created I didn’t watch all the way through. Maybe you should have thought it through a little more😊. I look forward to you next post. Don’t wait too long, but don’t do it too soon either. Take your time but not too long….. Full disclosure, I am a fan and probably will always be.

Hi Matthew, was that you on the "Red one" movie? I swear that guy looked like you 🤔

This is excellent! Thanks man! I’d love for your advice on what to research when you’re switching markets. I’m moving to Albuquerque in the spring. I’ve already got a few ideas of what to do, but I may have missed a few.

EXCELLENT!!! Such wisdom. I'm in the middle slightly towards the slower side. This video reminds me of: Faith without corresponding action is dead. AND, zeal without knowledge is not good. **Re projects that appear dead & gone... I've learned: Just because it hasn’t happened yet, doesn't mean it won't happen. ** Sometimes, foundational roots of wisdom are growing to stabilize you/us for great heights. Higher heights require deeper roots.

Help me understand what makes the difference between now or next year and when you finished the pilot as to moving forward with potential distribution.

great video thank you, sometimes i have to be more patient with my career

😂 I feel personally attacked. I wrote a movie and I'm writing an episodic project. But I'm nervous. Every time I bring up either project, everyone says I should start working on filming them 🙃. That is terrifying. However, this must be a sign. Because last Monday, I literally ran into a film friend at the park who was looking for a writer 😅.

Even though I had years of experience in the theater, when I started pursuing on camera work I took every gig I could get. Most of those projects, and my performances, were terrible, but I learned something every time and made some relationships with people who now have successful careers, and those relationships have paid off. In other news, I'm in the final stages of developing a class I want to teach, I'm meeting with someone early next year to get my short film off the ground, and I'm making plans to level up and find coastal representation once I have a new reel.

What happened to your character after the encounter with the snowglobe in the car? It's not clear in the movie and my mom and I were curious. 😊

Have a great holiday Matt! Thanks for all you do!

Continue to watch movies and study my craft by reading lots of books 📚.

Actors are awful, horrible people.

Enjoy your videos so much. They have been helpful in my first year back in the biz in over a couple of decades. Also, saw Red One, great work as Aaron Able. My fiancee and I are still laughing, "just have grandma take the bus!" lol. Have a great holiday!

Enjoy vacation and thanks for all you dooooooo.

Never be afraid to book out (we all have a life outside of this industry). And yes, there is so much fantastic information available on social media, but be discerning, there is a whole lotta bad advice out there as well. Check your sources. Happy Holidays everyone!

One of your better ones sir. Thanks for showing yourself

Thank U as always- Enjoy your vacation!

Thank you so much. Enjoy your vacation! 🎉 I didn't catch the full names, please... Arvold? Collins? Doyle?

Thank you, as always! Happiest of holidays to you both. Enjoy your tremendously well-deserved vacation.

You guys are consistently superb, helpful, and upbeat - Love you guys! Enjoy your much-deserved vacation.

This is such a great video! I’ve booked all the commercials I auditioned for, but recently I sent in a self tape for a costar and I got feedback saying they loved my personality but it was “above the costar procedural technique”. I was so confused and a little disheartened. But this makes so much sense! 🌸

GREAT Job in RED ONE! Movie! I enjoyed your performance! Glad you are working!! Continued Blessings!

Great nuggets in here. No one wants to be around someone who "shoulds" themselves. That's just crappy.

You put a lot of thought into this one (well, you do so on all your videos!) and useful analogies, esp the frame/painting having just visited a large museum. Ai concur is truly OK to take off a week whenever needed!

I hate the phrase "bold choices". It leads to actors trying to find odd ways to stand out. I've always said, the boldest choice is to be yourself and just serve the scene. I don't watch my tapes until I'm done, and if I'm not happy with them, I work some more and tape again after a long break. And it took me a few years of self-taping to be able to look at my performance somewhat objectively without beating myself up. As I heard Mark Fincannon say: "Be interested, not interesting" (might be paraphrasing). As far as social media goes, I only post something when I feel a desire to share, not to be seen.

Hello & thank you so much for this video!! My instructor is writing a referral for me (excellent tip!!). Should he address it to a specific agency, or can he write a general referral?

Well, I for one am glad this force is at work within YOU...if that is part of what keeps you making these videos. Thank you for doing so. They are part of my healthy diet.

I think putting this squarely in the context of auditioning actors, *especially* for newer actors, there's a tendency to OVER ACT our co-star auditions and under act the guest star auditions. Why? Because those smaller co-star auditions feel like we're "doing nothing" when we're actually, in most cases, doing the right amount of acting, which is to say, none...we're just being. So many of those auditions are the occupational role type co-stars (cop, teacher, witness, bus driver, etc.) and the fear is that we're not being seen..."I'm not doing enough, I need to show them I can act" which is, of course, a trap. Another trap, underacting the guest star audition...but that's another conversation :)

Such great tips!!! Amazing. Thank you 👸🏻

Love this, Matt!

Nice dude

Thank you. Now, I can relax.

I am there now. I've been there for years.

How wonderful!