Bruce Holmes charts his journey from regional Equity playhouses and details his own sustainable acting career now based in New Mexico. In this week's episode we discuss how actors can embrace or evade type, how actors can make peace within a tumultuous industry, and how you don't have to have all the answers to work consistently as an professional actor.
TRAINING
MFA from the University of Washington's Professional Actor Training Program
CREDITS INCLUDE
A&E's Longmire
AMC's Better Call Saul
Fright Night (2011)
QUOTABLE TAKE-AWAYS
"I have found, it's funny, theatre does help keep you grounded. It's such a different medium than film & TV. And among people who know, [..] they know what the theatre is. They know what it represents."
"I didn't mean to get into the theatre. It kind of happened accidentally. So, I always felt like a sham. But I just got the bug and I kept gaining knowledge and experience and that helped and I got better. I'd say, much like the theatre, where I really started learning in theatre was when I started working with really good actors. That was when I really started learning. And I feel like I'm going through that process in film & TV, which is totally different. [...] I'm getting better at it. It's a slower process because I don't get the opportunity as much."
"As much as it's an art to me. It's also a craft; it's work. And I put my heart and soul into it. And I'm exhausted by the end. But then I'm done. I dump it and I move on. And half the time unfortunately I don't have the luxury of being able to go to a yoga class or center myself because I've got to go cater something or do construction. I'm still doing that on the side. But it's all good. It's all good."
"I've been cooking for 25 years to support myself on the side for acting. I cook. Cooking centers me."
"It's hard to be an artist in an expensive city. [...] But it's been easier, less complicated, to be an artist here than in other places. I don't know if that's a good thing or if it's a cop out, but I'm able to still do what I'm doing and I act a lot."
CURRENTLY APPEARING
FUSION Theatre Company's Meteor Shower (March 21-April 7, 2019):
http://www.fusionnm.org/current-season.html
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