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INDEXWhat is the industry like in the UK for American actors? I live in LA but want to work in the UK
7 years, 11 months ago - Daniel Novick
I am an American Actor living in LA and am feeling uninspired by the films being made around me. I am feeling a lack of artistic community here. I am feeling a lack of three demential characters being created. I am wondering if there is more opportunity for authenticity in european cinema? I am wondering if there is work for American Actors in Europe ?
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7 years, 11 months ago - Alève Mine
We've got 3-dimensional characters but their dimensions are, much like in string theory, so small you can't see them from any distance. :)
7 years, 11 months ago - Paddy Robinson-Griffin
There is as much work for American actors as locals - it's thin on the ground. If you speak a European language except English you might have wider appeal, but I wouldn't expect to be getting work just by virtue of nationality when there are so many local actors applying for each role! You may also need to consider work permits, etc. Not necessarily hard to get for a short acting engagement, but you are unlikely to be able to get any other "making a living" work in between.
7 years, 10 months ago - Amy Burke
You will not find it easy to come over here to work (says the girl who’s 8 years and £8,000 into her immigration story...and that’s with no lawyers involved!). Things could quite possibly change post-Brexit, but who knows what that will do to the film industry. If you have a way to come over here and work and it’s something you want to do, go for it, it’s a grand adventure! But if it’s because you have a romanticised view of things being “better” in the UK as an actor, I don’t know if you’ll necessarily find that to be the case. I think you’re better off pursuing artistic communities in other cities in the US, but that’s just me.
7 years, 10 months ago - John Lubran
This maybe as much as the term th time I've suggested this. Avoid playing to the rules of a game loaded against you. The alternative boxes one may think out of are not at all arcane and used by corporate entities every day. When an actor from abroad acts in a project he or she need not be employed, per se, by a UK entity but by an American corporate entity contracting a service. It's an international trade deal. Such applies to an almost unlimited range of lawful activities. If it were not so the fundimentals of global capitalism would collapse. For the record, I've carried out a number of such projects going both ways across the Atlantic. One could hardly make it up. Ironically it's one of the few Orwellian constructs that can be used advantageously. It does require a modicum of worldly nouse.
7 years, 10 months ago - Benjamin Hartley
Bloomfields Welch Management: Founded by Emma Bloomfield in 2004, this rather exclusive outfit has an interesting sideline: it places US actors in British film and theatre productions. However, these clients tend to be ‘names’, such as Lucy Liu and Luke Perry. Nonetheless, for an American actor coming to London, it shows the agency’s heart is in the right place. It may help?!
7 years, 9 months ago - Liam McLaughlin
Forget about it. The industry is shrinking from the inside, in London, and American actors certainly won't work here over British actors. However, yes, British theatre in particular is richer and more three-dimensional.