What's Up With Verticals? | The Business | SAG-AFTRA Foundation
A casting director, an agent, a director and two actors on vertical micro dramas: what they are, how they cast, 15 to...
On Set Videos for Actors
21 videosWhat happens between call time and wrap, in the order it happens, so a first set day is not also a first lesson in what the words mean.
Liz Sargent, Victor Slezak, Marceline Hugot and Ali Ahn for ‘Take Me Home’ | Conversations
Liz Sargent and the cast of Take Me Home on building a film around her sister Anna: listening without an agenda,...
Conversations for ‘Outlander: Blood of my Blood’ | Conversations at the SAG-AFTRA Foundation
The cast of the Outlander prequel on playing the younger versions of beloved characters without imitation, researching...
2026 Shorts Showcase: Creators & Cast Panel | New York, Night 1
A SAG-AFTRA panel of shorts filmmakers on playing a whole arc in ten minutes, what an intimacy coordinator actually...
Acting Masterclass with Sean Astin | SAG-AFTRA Foundation
Sean Astin on what Patty Duke taught him on his first set, the training that made him commit to acting, and the...
Danny Boyle, Jack O'Connell and Guy Pearce for ‘Ink’ | Conversations at the SAG-AFTRA Foundation
Danny Boyle, Jack O'Connell and Guy Pearce on rehearsal, researching Rupert Murdoch from 1969 interview footage, and...
Theo James and Kaya Scodelario for ‘The Gentlemen’ | Conversations at the SAG-AFTRA Foundation
Theo James and Kaya Scodelario on finding a character in the sides, keeping a series surprising, and surviving new...
Cast & Creators for for ‘I Hate Myself and Want to Die’ | Conversations at the SAG-AFTRA Foundation
The cast and filmmaker of I Hate Myself and Want to Die on playing a dark premise for real, finding comedy in small...
Devon Sawa, Sarah Murphree & Brando Benetton for ‘The Girl in the River’ | Conversations
Devon Sawa and Sarah Murphree on The Girl in the River: drawing on your own past, building a backstory the script...
Hollywood Values Clash? Actress Reveals How to Stay True! #shorts
What to do when the work asks for something you will not do, and why the decision has to be made before the audition...
Actor Interview J. Teddy Garces Part 2
Why preparation counts as telling the truth, what to ask a prospective rep, and the reason being good is not why most...
Shooting on Location: A Survival Guide for Actors
The part nobody mentions about location work is the loneliness. How to set up the housing, the visits and the routine...
Studio Party!
The character party exercise: work out what you get cast as, find a real person who is it, and learn to do one thing...
Does Hollywood share your values?
The full conversation on lines you will not cross: guns, nudity, kissing, swearing, and the difference between a value...
What’s it like being an on-set acting coach? And should you hire one? #actingcoach #acting #actors
What a coach actually does on a production, who hires them, and why the biggest names use one when nobody makes them.
Physicality of an actor
Acting from the neck up is visible even in a close-up. How to build a body that reads as somebody else, and the...
[CONTENT] A04 - Brandon Ellis - Broadway (Success Summit 2013)
Broadway actor Brandon Ellis breaks down the audition rounds, the prep, the rehearsal schedule and how a show feeds...
DON'T do these things at an AUDITION! Noooooo!
A run of audition don'ts, from perfume and props to handshakes, chatty small talk and how early is too early.
Kate Winslet shares her acting secrets
Kate Winslet on letting preparation go, reading the source novel, holding focus on set and why you should never...
500 Days of Summer, Other Scripts, and How Long it Takes to Complete
A producer on real timelines, and why a project going quiet for years is normal rather than a bad sign.