066 - A Self Tape Success - Melvin Diggs
Audrey Helps Actors Podcast
Jesse Lumen
4.9 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 8 February 2021
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
This week Audrey Moore talks with actor Melvin Diggs about how he used self tapes to get him to the next level, and how to get out of co-star town!
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Credits:
Host: Audrey Moore
Produced by Jesse Lumen
Edited by Taylor Martorana
Mixed by Thomas Snodgrass
This episode's show music by Ari de Niro
Special thanks to Thomas Snodgrass for assistance with microphones, Aalok Mehta and 108 Hill for help with the theme song.
Other music and sound fx provided by Audio 4 Video, AR Sound, Sound Effects Public Domain, Ross Bugden and SFX and GFX.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, everybody. I'm Audrey Moore with Audrey Help Sactors and this is episode number 66. Look |
| 0:07.8 | into fix. You're acting career in 2021. While you're still in quarantine, wherever you |
| 0:15.6 | are, there's so much that you can do. Today we have Melvin Diggs on, oh, sweet hero of my |
| 0:23.2 | heart, Melvin Diggs. He's so amazing. He won some of the contests and competitions that |
| 0:29.8 | happened that casting directors had held over the beginning of the quarantine. He is such a hard |
| 0:37.0 | worker. He is so humble. He's so gracious. He's really hard on himself, but in a way that gets |
| 0:42.4 | him to really get things done. I have seen him over the last several years at any of the live |
| 0:47.8 | events that I would have. He's super active on social media. He's just like a get it done |
| 0:53.0 | whatever it takes, kind of guy. And you know, I love that. So today we talk about Melvin's successes |
| 0:59.5 | over the last couple of years. He really started listening to the podcast and adhering to the |
| 1:05.2 | self-taped practice, watching his auditions transform, watching himself just start booking and |
| 1:11.0 | getting some recognition, and then also having some bumps along the way. And we talk about those |
| 1:16.3 | bumps. You know, I'm all about transparency with the bumps. So we talk about that. It's a really |
| 1:21.2 | heartfelt and inspiring, honest episode about what it takes to really get some traction in this |
| 1:28.4 | town. I also want to shout out your Apple podcast reviews, formerly known iTunes. Jesse |
| 1:34.8 | isn't letting me say iTunes. I only have to say Apple podcast reviews now because apparently |
| 1:39.3 | iTunes doesn't exist. So Apple podcast reviews, I just want you guys to know. When you give me |
| 1:47.7 | an Apple podcast review, it's like somebody saying, Audrey, I'm going to drive you to the ocean |
| 1:55.8 | today. I'm going to set up a tent for you to hang out in it and just watch the ocean and by the way, |
| 2:02.5 | the dolphins are coming. That's how exciting and relieving your iTunes reviews are to me. |
| 2:08.5 | Really, truly, I get a lot of emails and I'm so grateful for them for those of you on Instagram |
| 2:13.6 | or emails who are sending me a big thank you. I love and appreciate that thanks and you know, |
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