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I want to explain to you the difference between modeling and acting. But in some ways, I really
think they're the same thing. I think that models are acting characters and acting throughout.
I think they on to a casting. It's not necessarily how it would normally be in their living room.
I think that there is an element of acting with modeling all the time in pictures, creating
different characters, getting into different moods. It's a very mental experience in a
lot of ways for most models.
Acting as itself, in terms of just acting, is completely different. But even though there
are some similarities, the time that it takes to learn each of those skills is different.
So, if you want to be a model who is going to work every day in fashion and work for
all different kinds of clients, and do the fashion shows, you don't necessarily have
the time to go to acting class. You don't really have control of your schedule in a
lot of ways. You could be enrolled in acting classes or working with an acting coach because
you would like to work in film. But, to be committed to that, you need to be committed
to that.
In modeling you need to be committed to modeling. So, if someone calls you and says, "You need
to get on a plane tonight. You're going to Paris," you can't say, "Well, I can't because
I'm in acting class." And the same goes for your acting class. You can't say, "I can't
do that workshop with my group because I have a modeling job." So, something is always going
to suffer. I think it's very difficult to do both at the same time, but I do think there
comes a point in modeling where you have time to sort of transition into acting. During
the transition of that, you learn that they're actually two completely different things.
The vulnerability that is required to be a great actor, the skill set is different. The
ability to not be focused on yourself because you're working with another person, you're
reading lines, you're creating a moment. There are lots of different things that go on in
acting that don't happen in modeling, even though they seem sort of related in a way.
It's a big commitment. It's a completely different commitment.
Models do TV commercials for certain brands, but they're kind of modeling on TV. It's the
same thing that they do for print, for a magazine or catalog. They're modeling for a picture,
and usually fashion television just takes the same thing, and it's just animated. So,
you're not really expanding your repertoire very much by doing fashion television commercials
and even cosmetics. If you're doing makeup, you rarely talk. So, actually getting out
of your own head and pursuing acting is really a different skill set, and it takes, in my
opinion, to be great at it a 100 percent commitment.
History has shown that very few models have gone onto to have creditable acting careers.
So, there are some great examples of some people who have done it, or they modeled a
minute and then they went into acting. But they're usually not that they're doing those
two things at the same time, other than actresses who are in cosmetic campaigns. I think there
are more actresses being models than there are models being actresses.