{"id":17102,"date":"2021-02-06T17:53:58","date_gmt":"2021-02-06T23:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=17102"},"modified":"2021-02-06T17:53:58","modified_gmt":"2021-02-06T23:53:58","slug":"book-6-of-52-the-actors-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/book-6-of-52-the-actors-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 6 (of 52) &#8211; The Actor&#8217;s Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_17103\" style=\"width: 437px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/theactorslife.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17103\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17103\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/theactorslife.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"427\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/theactorslife.jpg 427w, https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/theactorslife-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 427px) 100vw, 427px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-17103\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Actor&#8217;s Life: A Survival Guide &#8211; Jenna Fischer<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Actress Jenna Fischer, who charmed America for 10 seasons as Pam Beesly on <em>The Office<\/em>, checks in with her how to\/memoir about surviving as a beginning actor, telling her story along the way.\u00a0 She starts with moving to LA, finding an agent and\/or manager, learning to audition, how to behave once you get cast, and to keep on going even when you have convinced yourself that it isn&#8217;t going to happen.<\/p>\n<p>Fischer arrived in Los Angeles in 1998 as a fresh faced theater school grad, expecting to quickly make inroads in Hollywood and become a working actor.\u00a0 It took 3 years before she booked her first speaking role, a three-line guest spot on <em>Spin City<\/em> in 2001.\u00a0 That led to work in independent films and other guest parts before she hit it big in 2005, being cast in the American version of <em>The Office<\/em>.\u00a0 In <em>The Actor&#8217;s Life: A Survival Guide<\/em>, she details her struggle, while giving helpful advice to those coming up behind her.\u00a0 If you are a fan or are looking to make the leap into the entertainment business, then this is highly recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actress Jenna Fischer, who charmed America for 10 seasons as Pam Beesly on The Office, checks in with her how to\/memoir about surviving as a beginning actor, telling her story along the way.\u00a0 She starts with moving to LA, finding an agent and\/or manager, learning to audition, how to behave once you get cast, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[7430,4638,9307,238],"class_list":["post-17102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-jenna-fischer","tag-spin-city","tag-the-actors-life","tag-the-office"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17104,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17102\/revisions\/17104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}