Money in the Bank

I recently received the following letter from M, an actor training at LK&Co.:

Hi Les! Just wanted to check in after the audish today… welp, it was the coldest room ever. Literally not even a chuckle, no notes, basically a, “thank you, goodbye.” But you know what? I know I crushed it. So it’s just good practice in not needing validation from anyone, letting it go when you leave the room and then going on to live a full life. As Tina Fey says, “Do your thing and don’t care if they like it.” love you, M

I remember when M couldn’t make a move without caring what everyone thought about it.  Trees fall in the forest all the time, whether we see ‘em or not.  And I saw M’s work before her audish.  She WAS freakin’ great.  It was the best work I’ve ever seen her do by far, she nailed the role, and she was perfect. Who knows what had happened just prior to her read that made the room frigid?  And it doesn’t matter.  What matters is that she went in and did her work.  Sure, she wanted that job, but someone in that room saw how great she was.  She put money in her audition bank.  (They say that in AA – we go to AA meetings to “put money in the AA bank” so that when we get in trouble, when we suddenly want that shot of tequila, when we need some serenity, our AA “bank account” is flush. If we never go to meetings, never talk to our sponsor, never work the steps, then when we need sobriety, we have nothing in the bank.)  M’s audition bank is flush. We just need to keep going out there and doing great auditions.  The tipping point will come.