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How The Movie Business ACTUALLY Works — Kevin Interdonato [FULL INTERVIEW]
Film Courage: Do you remember the first acting class you ever took?
Kevin Interdonato, Actor/Filmmaker: Yeah, my entrance into the business was a scam. My day one, first foot into the acting business I hooked up with a scam agency in North New Jersey.
We had to pay money up front, you get three acting classes and a head shot. I think at the time 1999 it was like $1,000 and you get three acting classes where you sit in a big circle and everyone says their monologue and stuff. We didn’t even know what monologues were. We just had to read off this piece of paper. Then some guy in the back was a photographer. You go to the back room and he takes pictures of you. They were the worst pictures I’d ever seen in my entire life. Then you get them and they say Thank you, good luck and they never hear from him again.
It was actually like a talent agency, they boasted themselves out. I think a year later they got caught and they went out of business. That was my first step into the business as an actor.