A review by rjleamon11
The Actor's Life: A Survival Guide by Jenna Fischer

3.0

After I power-read the ONE book I brought with me for our trip to NYC to see "TKAM," I panicked and asked Nate to bring me something he thought I'd like for the Boston-NYC leg of the trip. He offered me this one, which we got at the Marden's fire sale over his graduation weekend . . . and I really enjoyed it. Fischer is funny, disarming, honest, and inspiring: she suggests that making it as an actor is largely difficult and exhausting, but leavened by luck. Her straightforward statement that if you want to make it in theater, you have to move to NYC and if you want to make it in TV or movies, you have to move to LA did NOT delight me as the mom of an aspiring actor, but it makes sense. She also emphasizes the need to keep taking classes and going on auditions and developing one's craft and skill. . . continual growth and practice are what make one an actor, she points out, even if one is working several crappy jobs to actually survive. I hope Nate reads this, even if it's during a winter of his discontent.