6/27/2023 0 Comments The Actor's Life by Jenna FischerThat frank talk and advice make up much of "The Actor's Life," along with many personal examples and stories from other actors. If you look naturally sweet and naive in real life, you aren't going to be cast as a drug-addicted career criminal. "But acting in the entertainment business is about typecasting and gut reactions, especially when you are starting out. "I know what you might be thinking: 'I can play anything! I'm a trained actor!'" she writes. When she found a photographer who could convey that image, it helped lead to her first big job: nice receptionist Pam Beesly in "The Office," Fischer writes in "The Actor's Life: A Survivor's Guide." Problem was, it wasn't really her.įinally, she figured out what she was selling: "sweet, trustworthy, open, cute, and vulnerable." In other words, an actress who was more like her, a 20-something Missourian who graduated from a Catholic High School and state university. In another, she has a seductive gaze and a gaping, spaghetti-strap top.Īlthough the aspiring young actress liked the "fierce, sexy girl" picture, it didn't lead to many jobs. In one of her first headshots, Jenna Fischer looks like a chipper teenager in overalls.
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