Consider Roles in Commercials Carefully
Actors often disagree over the direction a career should take. Some feel that an actor should take any job offered, as long as it pays and it’s not pornography, because you never know where a job might lead. Others set rules about the kinds of roles they will accept, especially if the job has a potentially negative impact on their career long-term. Stephanie Courtney TV commercials can be a lucrative specialty area; just ask Stephanie Courtney , who had a series of small parts in film and television before landing the role of “Flo,” the spokesperson for Progressive Insurance. She’s making a fortune with that gig and she’s everywhere! But acting in commercials is very different from acting in film. Because they don’t roll credits at the end, commercials present the audience with a kind of reality that blurs the line between actor and role. It isn’t an actress playing a soccer mom there on the screen, it’s a soccer mom telling you that she uses the sponsor’s product and you s...