Jealousy and anger is a tough topic for me to talk about, because as I have grown up and gotten more involved in this strange industry and been in a variety of relationships, I have realized how jealous or angry I really can get. It’s an ugly side of me, every time I get jealous I tell myself I’m never going to feel this way again (I will rise above it!) but inevitably something happens and there I am again, cursing in my head and throwing my hands up in the air, saying, “f**k acting,” “I hate LA,” “everything is…
Author: Julia Coulter
Julia Coulter
Julia Coulter is an actor and writer originally from Hanover, NH. She got the acting bug at an early age and spent a lot of her childhood trying to convince her friends to watch Tommy Boy and all of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s musicals with her. During high school, she started to re-alize that this was not just a phase, nor was she simply a movie goer, she wanted to be a part of it all. After graduating high school she left the US and landed in Cardiff, Wales at one of the UK’s top drama schools, Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. Although a challenge, the experience was life changing. She got to perform on some of London’s finest stages and be heard on BBC Radio 4. After graduating she moved to LA by herself with few connections, no job and no apartment. She quickly found her feet in the industry, is currently working on writing her second feature film and hustling in this mad world of auditions.
I wasn’t quite sure how to start this post, I didn’t want to sugarcoat things, but also didn’t want to be harsh, or possibly offensive. I sat at my computer with a blank word document staring back at me. Then naturally, I wandered to YouTube to watch the trailer for the new Jennifer Lawrence movie Joy. Next, I watched interviews with Jennifer Lawrence, and that lead me to interviews with Emma Stone, and all of the other badass female idols of mine— who I secretly want to be. Eventually Viola Davis’ Emmy speech came up. I watched for the fifteenth…
As human beings, we like to find our flaws. As women we have mastered flaw-finding and we are constantly expanding on what a flaw is; yesterday, it was I’m too fat or too skinny. Now, it’s all the little details in-between, like one of my ears sticks out more than the other. We take these flaws and we let them hinder us. As actors, we spend a whole scene worrying about what our hair looks like, rather then actually being invested in what is going on in the scene or with the other person acting in it. Well, I ask…