For this episode of Second Act Actors, I’m sitting down with another actor who came into acting from the medical field. Eliza Shin applied to medical school and spent years training to be a doctor and then specialising in urology, but she knew in her heart that medicine wasn’t for her. She tells me about her mental health struggles throughout her time in med school and how she built up the courage to walk away from it all and follow her dream to be an actor.
Eliza and I compare notes of our experiences at med school, from the huge gender disparity in students and doctors to the kind of person that med school turns you into. Eliza tells me that she constantly felt as if she were playing a character when she was a doctor and that she didn’t fit in with people who clearly loved what they were studying when she didn’t.
We also go into what Eliza’s life looks like now working as an actor and how she was able to make that huge transition. You’ll hear us discuss what ‘working on your acting skills’ actually looks like and how you can become a better actor by learning to let go.
This episode of Second Act Actors covers some pretty deep topics and shines a light on the diversity of actors working in the industry today. If you liked it, make sure to subscribe to the podcast.
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