As a follow up to my last article about low points, I had a couple of great conversations with friends both in and outside of the industry. One of the major take-aways for me was how much I had let the business side of my acting career become the determining factor for every decision I made, regardless of whether is was directly related to my career. This made every single decision from cutting my hair to ordering lunch to what to do on a Friday night, a business decision. Hearing that was a huge wake up call because while I…
Author: Anna Borchert
Anna Borchert
Anna Borchert is a bi-coastal actor, producer and writer. She started her career by training at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre and made her acting debuts in both indie film and off-off Broadway while in NYC. After moving to LA, Anna created Monadnock Productions as a way to create her own work and promote gender equality both in front of and behind the camera. Currently starring as Chloe Valentine in one of the first Instagram micro-series The Real Daughters of POP (IG: @therealdaughtersofpop) co-created and co-produced under the Monadnock banner with over 80 episodes. Anna continues to act in a variety of film, TV and new media projects as well as producing and writing her own content. For the latest on Anna, visit her website: www.annaborchert.com and on Twitter: @annaborchert.
3 months in to project “Make acting sexy again” and I’ve hit a low point. Now for me, the idea of actually quitting acting is never on the table…my brain and my heart don’t view that as a rational choice. It’s never going to be an option the same way deciding to stop breathing is never going to be an option. However, there are days when that knowledge is the only bright spot when it comes to my career. While I am ok living in the place of “today is not the day I quit”…it’s not fun and it’s not…
So you’ve got your nudity and/or simulated-sex rider signed along with your contract, you are ready to shoot. On the Instagram show I co-star in, THE REAL DAUGHTERS of POP, I spent three seasons shooting in various stages of undress as well as a post –coital scene in Season 3 that suggested full nudity. This show has a teeny cast and crew who have been together for all 3 seasons and so I was incredibly comfortable and never considered how shooting this scene would be different. Now when it came to the feature, this would be the first time I…
As I teased in my first article, after opening myself up to getting emotionally naked, I then had the opportunity to get actually naked when I was offered a supporting role in a feature. I knew the producer and as we talked about the role, he brought up the nudity, I read the script and knew I was game. I want to share my experience with both the creation of a nudity rider (part 1) which you should always have for any scene with nudity and/or simulated sex and the actual shooting of this type of scene (part 2). I’ve…
In many ways this past year was one of the hardest I’ve had since deciding to make acting my profession. I don’t say this for pity and, in some ways, it’s not even true. But it felt like the hardest and I’ve realized how important my feelings can be when I look to measure the year from a business perspective. Art and commerce go hand in hand and both need to be valued….but that’s a subject for another post. 2014 was the year I took some of the biggest risks of my career thus far. Both financially and creatively, to…