Author: Hayley Derryberry

For those of us who have left our small hometowns in the Midwest or in my case the Southeast, it is often difficult to explain to our friends and family what exactly it means to be a hard working, non-celebrity actor in LA. Most of their thoughts of what an actor is come from the movie stars they see interviewed on Ellen or in behind the scenes special features on DVDs. People outside of this industry or even those deeply embedded in the studio system rarely ever get to see what the career of a non-famous actor really looks like.…

It turns out that there is a fetish for just about anything you can think of. Someone with a sexual fetish obtains arousal from a nonsexual object or situation. For as long as I’ve been going out on auditions, I’ve come across obvious fetish scams, things like “woman in heels driving sports car”. I thought I was pretty good at spotting and avoiding them, but only just recently I let one slip by and I got duped. While I can’t change what I’ve already done, I hope that my experience will help someone else avoid the same mistake. So I’m…

Since “Rabid Love” released in March (rabidlovemovie.com) I have had a steady flow of interview requests to talk about making the movie. I accepted all of them. Talking to bloggers and podcasters is a great way to promote your film. Especially with low budget projects that don’t have money for marketing, it’s really important to get the word out as much as possible. Remember, if your film does well it can only help your career as an actor. After having done a couple dozen now, I feel like I’m really getting the hang of it. Written interviews are pretty standard…

Have you ever given up holidays with your family or postponed vacations because you thought you might miss an important audition or job? We LA transplants do this a lot. We live in a city of infinite possibilities, so it becomes very difficult to hold onto the ones that are in front of us. Its like the saying, “A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.” But what about when there are hundreds or thousands of birds in that bush? Don’t you want your hands free so you can grab all of them? Sorry for the metaphor,…

When I talked to some of my actor friends about working on the project “Red, White, and Bluey,” I got questions like: Are they flying you to Australia? Are they putting you in a hotel? Are they paying you overtime or travel days? These kinds of questions get asked all the time, but for the first time it sounded strange to me because I didn’t think of the production I was working for as “Them”. The director was a good friend of mine, so it felt like I was working on one of my own projects, and I realized that…

note from the author: The basis for this article is that it seems like 95% of female roles on every movie and tv show are played by someone outrageously skinny. Not someone healthy and thin, someone outrageously skinny. Noticing that has created a difficulty for me in this career, because I don’t want to starve myself, but I don’t see why the women we see on tv can’t look healthy. So when I say “When you go into an audition” or “you’re not the right body type” I mean for nearly every role being cast, whether its for “hot chick”…