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What An Agent Actually Wants From You

Jesse Malinowski sits down with Jillian Skale, head of voiceover and commercial at DDO Talent in Chicago, to break down why most actors are unknowingly getting cut from c

Annette Stilwell EXPOSES What Kills Your Commercial Bookings

Jesse Malinowski sits down with Annette Stilwell, founder of Stillwell Casting, who has been casting commercials and film in the Southeast since 1980 — and she does not h

No Representation Beats Bad Representation: A NYC Agent Gets Real

Jesse Malinowski sits down with Tucker from DGRW Talent in New York for one of the most direct conversations about agent-client dynamics we have had on Get Scene Unscript

New Talent Agent Reveals the Roster Slot That Decides If You Get Signed

Privilege Talent's newest agent, Antonyo Myers, joins host Jesse Malinowski at Get Scene Studios to explain what actually happens on the agency side: a roster of 81 clien

3,000 Submissions, 60 Slots: Casting Director Reveals Who Actually Gets Seen

New York casting director Joanna Davis joins host Jesse Malinowski at Get Scene Studios to break down what actually happens to your submission: roughly 3,000 actors on a

Why Your Acting Coach Might Be Holding You Back (Agency Owner Explains)

Jesse Malinowski sits down with the owner of The Avenue Agency, a 25-year talent agency veteran, who breaks down exactly why agents drop actors, why staying in the same a

Why Grounded Actors Fall Flat in Verticals (Tyler Perry Casting Vet Explains)

Tyler Perry Studios casting veteran Rhavynn Drummer returns to Get Scene Unscripted to tell Jesse Malinowski why actors dismissing verticals as "bad acting" are missing t

Casting Directors Are SICK of Self-Tapes

Jesse Malinowski sits down with Broadway vet and LA acting coach David Gray (HBO's Game Change opposite Julianne Moore, David Gray Studios), who puts a student on a TV sh

Why You Didn't Get a Callback (It's Not Your Tape): Stilwell Casting Tells All

Jesse Malinowski sits down with Stilwell Casting's Katherine Barber, who reveals that nearly half of actors ghost their commercial auditions, breakdowns go out to 69 agen

Casting Director EXPOSES Why 1 in 70 Actors Actually Book

Veteran casting director Lori Wyman (Miami Vice, Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Bloodline, Ballers) joins Jesse Malinowski on Get Scene Unscripted to reveal why only 1 of 70 self

Actors Are Addicted to External Validation — Here's the Fix

Jesse Malinowski breaks down the three most common mindset traps keeping actors stuck -- uncontrollable goals, the external validation cycle, and not enjoying the process

She Booked 85 Commercials by Refusing to Do What Most Actors Do

Working actress Tommy Aleman has booked roughly 85 commercials, led an indie horror feature, and built a life of multiple income streams — and on this Get Scene Unscripte

The Real Reason Your Self-Tapes Aren't Booking (And 4 Easy Fixes)

Host Jesse Malinowski breaks down 4 dead-simple self-tape strategies, the reaction shot, making discoveries, the nine-quadrant frame trick, and the "secret" technique, th

Wicked Tour to Vertical Director: The $27 Billion Industry She's Helping Build

Jesse Malinowski sits down with actress, director, and Cosmic Film Co founder Amanda Fallon Smith — a former Miss Pennsylvania who told her entire family not to show up w

Agents Are Lying to You — You Don't Need a Referral to Get Signed

Jesse Malinowski breaks down the three things actually holding Southeast actors back from getting signed — and calls out exactly why the "you need a referral" and "you ne

The Real Reason Directors Replace Actors (It's Not Your Talent)

Jesse Malinowski sits down with Stacia Crawford — Netflix director, intimacy coordinator on ABC's RJ Decker, producer, and working actress — to pull back the curtain on w

$3,000 in 30 Minutes: The Voiceover Income Secret Actors Miss

Jesse Malinowski sits down with Heidi Rew of Atlanta VoiceOver Studio to unpack how on-camera actors can break into voiceover — including how Heidi booked a $3,000 job an

Stop Being a Lazy Actor: Manager Reveals Audition + Social Media Truths

Get Scene Unscripted host Jesse Malinowski sits down with talent manager Gail Tassel of Tassel Talent Group (25 years in the Southeast) to break down the real reason acto

Why This Top 10% Actor REFUSES To Coach You On Self-Tapes

Matt Cornwell — 130+ credits, 20+ years in the Southeast, and the man behind Get Taped's 350+ videos — joins Get Scene host Jesse Malinowski to unpack the real reason mos

Stop Reading the Breakdown & Why Your Self-Tape Feels Boring

Jesse Malinowski breaks down 3 unconventional strategies to rescue your self-tapes from autopilot — including the Game of Thrones jacket that booked him the role of Beaur