Listener Question: Do Commercials Hurt Your Film Career?

Update: 2021-05-08

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This week we answer a question that listener Christian Bitar asked us on our Instagram account (@vagabondactors). He asked whether working on commercials hurts your reputation as a film or TV actor. We expand the question to talk about whether there is any work that actors should or shouldn't take and if there was work we took that we regretted.

Our recommendations this week:

Andrea: The 100 Foot Journey (film on Netflix), Professional Troublemaker (book by Luvvie Ajayi Jones)

Brian: The Ying-Yang Master, Double World (films on Netflix)

Gary: Big Little Lies (TV show on HBO/Netflix)

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