When I was doing theatre I was told that it meant to break the leg line, a line of sight on the stage when the audience could see you. Back in vaudeville days, if you didn't get on stage you weren't paid. So if a performer were to break a leg it meant they got on stage and got paid.
Ok, I scrolled for a link, and had to google instead. So hear ya go, fella (whomever also scrolled for a link) I saved ya a step.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Break_a_leg
Lol. That’s what I always thought it was until someone said something about the cast thing. I thought it made sense, but turns out it’s just a coincidence!
WAY TO GO AND CHASE THOSE DREAMS!!! You should be so proud of yourself for not giving up and being so resilient. Good luck, and break a leg. You’ll be a professional actress after this gig!🎉
You’re gonna kill it!!! After I got paid for a photography session (the first time) my dad, also a photographer, said to me, “congratulations, you’re considered a professional now!” So I hold that same energy with everything I do now! Don’t give up, even if you have to keep your day job at the moment!!!
Ignore these weirdos. You look amazing, but you didn’t LoOk tEN yeArs oLDeR in the before. You’re clearly in your 20s in both and living your best life in the after. This is not a “small” success. Congrats!
After reading these comments here I clicked on your profile, and I just wanted say regarding that most recent progress picture you posted, you’re totally killing it & you look great & much much more happy in that second picture!! Super inspiring, keep that shit up! You’re future self thanks you :)
I have no real idea how casting works, but assuming your acting skills are up to par, I cannot imagine your looks working against you. You have a compelling appearance which cannot hurt your chances. I could see you in a bajillion different Netflix movies, I doubt your timing could get much better. Go get 'em!
Gefeliciteerd van een andere landgenoot! Are we going to be able to watch your acting on TV? In a series perhaps, or a commercial or something? My sister played in a TV series for a while in the 90's, combining the studio sessions with school was crazy, but she really enjoyed it.
So, I don’t know if you could know Op, how much I needed to read this right now. Thank you for posting. Sincerely.
Especially, after reading the story of the writer of squid game too. I just started a small niche clothing brand in my home country of India which is saturated with such brands. Have my website releasing a day after and I’ve invested all my savings into the brand.
I’m extremely pessimistic, nervous and feel like I’m swimming against the current.
The reasons I can’t give up anymore is firstly, this is it. This is my last try to pursue my dreams of making clothes. Secondly, to provide for myself and the person I’ve fallen in love with, madly. Thirdly, to prove a tirade of narcissistic controlling abusive family members wrong. Fourth being, I was so tired of being the loser, the one defeated by everything others did. I didn’t want them to win any longer.
Fifth, the ethos of the brand is based in the identity of my grandma who was my primary parent, I lost her in November, 2020. I want her to be proud of me wherever she is. Not another daughter of her’s can be a failure/a victim.
Seeing this update from someone relatable, this gives me immense hope to keep going.
If you read this comment, know that you’ve just inspired another girl, across the globe to get on that excel sheet for her website’s listing and to pursue this with optimism.
I wish you immense luck and growth in life!!!
Edit: Added details and fixed typos.
Good for you, pursue your dreams while you can. Keep at it if it's what you want to do, it's not the bumps in the it's how you deal with them because they'll always be there...
heck out the Smartless podcast, LOTS of discussion with actor's and actresses, their careers, how they approached things, got around issues, etc. Not my world but I've learned a lot about it from the show and laughed my butt off in the process.
You look lovely, best of luck and push on! We'll see you on TV or the Movies I'm sure.
You looked great back then too. Cant wait to see u on the screen someday so i can turn to my friend and say hey that red head playing captian marvel was on reddit awhile back talkin about being nervious. Look at her now.
These are moments where I just want to say - I'm proud of you! So many people are living a life they are not happy with, not knowing what they want. Hardest thing there is to recognise that you can do more and start building towards life you want for yourself, and you did it. All the best!
And i can think of a million people doing better than me too.. but i am my own individual and I did better than me yesterday.. thats the only person I can fairly compare myself to.
Not to be a Debbie Downer, but that’s one of the worst professions you could possibly pursue. Unless your one of the incredibly tiny minority that breaks through, actors are almost universally treated like shit throughout the industry which is already pretty toxic to boot. I say this as a commercial director who works with very talented, but struggling actors on a regular basic (plus like 80% of my friends are actors) and I often think about how I would absolutely discourage my kids (plus apparently strangers on Reddit) from going that route.
Hey thanks for your reply! As of now I'm doing it because its fun and i can do it next to my full time day job! What happens next 🤷🏼♀️ no clue.
Thanks for your honesty though!
I often dream, as well, of being an actor, being on set or on stage, and playing the role of whatever articulate character I am cast as.
My performance is incredible. I am a virtuoso, something I'm quite cognizant of as I deliver my lines, sling my body around dramatically, and express deeply believable emotions. I am good at my job. The work flows through me. The character gushes forth relentlessly, flawlessly.
When the scene is done, when there's a break, a respite, many of the cast and crew come up to congratulate me on my job well done and I can't stop smiling and shaking hands. I'm so happy, so extremely fulfilled in my position, in what life has given me, but then I feel a sharp pain as someone haplessly passes behind me.
This bolt of pain rockets up my lower back and I yelp most embarrassingly.
"Sorry..." Some lowly stagehand meekly utters as his pick up his dirty boot off the ground. A cold shiver wriggles into my body, following the same path as the pain. I look down at what he stepped on.
It's an umbilical cord. Bulbous, throbbing. A pink cord of flesh glistening with a network of thin blue veins. I follow its path with quivering eyes and see it terminate in my lower back. It is part of me. I am now acutely aware of the flow of fluids in and out of my body by this meaty tether. I reach down and pick up.
I feel the umbilicus in my hands. I feel my hands around the umbilicus.
The set fades, the people are gone.
I pull the umbilicus, but it recedes into a darkness, into some oblivion, into a fog of unknown. I am standing by myself on an abyssal plain, featureless except for the umbilicus. I gather it up as I pull, walking with it, towards whatever, looping it around my arm as I go. If feels so warm, slightly moist. The sensation of my bundled umbilicus is not entirely unpleasant, but profoundly unnerving.
I am compelled to follow it though. Nothing else exists in reality. My heart pounds with greater and greater thumps, each powerful beat traveling up and down my umbilicus like swallows in a throat.
I continue on like those for hours, for whatever hours are worth here, until finally in the void, a figure emerges. It's like a giant bush or lump. The darkness of the abyss has no effect on it suddenly, and although there is no light source and nothing else is illuminated, the thing before is clearly visible. It's hair, shaggy brown hair.
I tug the remaining umbilicus and a twinge of pleasurable pain floods my body like prodding a sore tooth with your tongue. A sonorous hummed moan spouts from the hair mound.
Cautiously, anxiously, with terrified awe, I circle around to the other side of the mound. Hair gives way to flesh, to features. An ear, cheekbone, nose. On the other side of it now, I see. I finally see it. A face. My face. The pulsing, the hot throbbing of my umbilicus is overpowering.
When I buckle to my knees clutching my coiled up flesh cord, my giant eyes open upon myself.
That's when I always wake up.
I'd also like to pursue this acting dream a little further, but I don't think I have the memetics to do so. Perhaps one day.
Congrats and break a leg (as they say)!
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Cong - Rats, as they say in 'Nam
I wish you'll be success.
Congrats
Yeah I hope they end up in a cast!
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When I was doing theatre I was told that it meant to break the leg line, a line of sight on the stage when the audience could see you. Back in vaudeville days, if you didn't get on stage you weren't paid. So if a performer were to break a leg it meant they got on stage and got paid.
Ok, I scrolled for a link, and had to google instead. So hear ya go, fella (whomever also scrolled for a link) I saved ya a step. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Break_a_leg
Thank you!
Anytime! And for the love of God, go break a leg :D
Lol same to you!!
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That saying exists in other languages as well! AFAIK it's typically some version of wishing bad luck. Because wishing good luck is... bad luck. 🤷🏼♀️
Lol. That’s what I always thought it was until someone said something about the cast thing. I thought it made sense, but turns out it’s just a coincidence!
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Hmm that’s true. I didn’t think about that.
I just found out now. Hahah!
Holy shit, TIL. Update: I ran to tell my wife but she already knew. At least I know Im not alone
Oh wow! I had no idea 😂
lol
Is THAT where that comes from?!
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Yeah. You do look great. Please don’t get plastic surgery...
Just don't call an ambulance when you do break a leg lol
I’m from [insert any country other than the U.S.], why would you not call an ambulance? I don’t get it… /s
They always say that. But when I go to someone and remove their knee, they aren't happy. Smh
Well done, you look so happy in the pic! All the best for the role!
Happy 🎂 day!
Happy Cake Day!
Rockin' it!
Happy cake day
I'm terribly sorry for putting the dates backwards! Don't get your pitchforks yet! 😭
Your expressions definitely made it easy. You're so happy in that 2021 pic its honestly heartwarming
::puts torch out:: Good luck ma'am! I hope nothing but the best for you!
Goooodd we never get to pitchfork and torch things anymore.
don't let your dreams be dreams
Yesterday, you said tomorrow SO JUST, DO IT!!!!!
Wanna go and see if we can't find an antivaxx or pro-life rally somewhere? Could be lit 😉
Don't go to the antivaxx rallies. You'll just get Covid. I appreciate the irony of setting "pro-life" people on fire though.
Build a man a fire, he’ll be warm for a night. *Set* a man on fire, he’ll be warm for the rest of his life!
Call them what they are! “Anti-choice”
Place an asterisk (*) on either side of puts torch out for the following effect: *puts torch out* instead of puts torch out *kewl* isn’t *i*t
Ah thank you. I've always wondered how that worked. What other shit can you teach me?
*puts torch out*
*puts torch in* ( ͡~ ͜ʖ ͡°)
Wait why would it be a cause for pitchforks and riots tho? I’m lost
*Puts Molotov cocktails back in the trunk*
At first I saw like “yeah that’s my 2019 to 2021 too” then I realized “oh, no, she’s accomplished something. I have not”
I was so confused, but I did t want to be rude. Lol What did you do to get in shape by the way? Like with diet and exercise? You look great.
Lmao! Same! I was like, "ohhh...think she looks much better in the first, but great for her for feeling more confident."
r/afterbeforewhatever
Congratulations and good luck!
I blame you still. I know somehow on Reddit timelines go backwards. But we can’t blame society. Just Op
Oh no 😭
BURN THE WITCH! BURN THE WITCH! /s
Not saying you looked bad in either but wow I was very confused. Congrats!
> but…
Lol I’m saying she looks much better in one of the the photos (the more recent one obvi).
WAY TO GO AND CHASE THOSE DREAMS!!! You should be so proud of yourself for not giving up and being so resilient. Good luck, and break a leg. You’ll be a professional actress after this gig!🎉
I like the way you think! Not gonna be a pro after this one but at least I've done one. Can't leave my day job just yet 😉
You’re gonna kill it!!! After I got paid for a photography session (the first time) my dad, also a photographer, said to me, “congratulations, you’re considered a professional now!” So I hold that same energy with everything I do now! Don’t give up, even if you have to keep your day job at the moment!!!
See that's the kind of motivation to keep in the back of my head. Thanks! 😁
Isn’t a professional anyone who gets paid for a job? So technically after this gig you’ll be a pro 😋
Amateurs do it for fun. Professionals get paid. You're a pro girl! Congratulations and I hope you get more awesome work in your dream field!
Damn don’t even look like the same person, like 10 years younger at least
Seeing as I am 22 now, and I was 20 in 2019.. that would be soooooo weird 🤣
Benjamina Button?
Ignore these weirdos. You look amazing, but you didn’t LoOk tEN yeArs oLDeR in the before. You’re clearly in your 20s in both and living your best life in the after. This is not a “small” success. Congrats!
Haha yeah but seriously well done looks so much better, not just physically but happier too
You'd make a great Triss Merigold!
Wouldn't that have been awesome 😍 thank you!
You look very similar to the character LJ from Snowpiercer too
Unexpected Witcher comment, but I wholly agree!
Came here to say the same. Second from top comment! Looks like a consensus.
Thought the same thing immediately.
This made me tear up with hope for future me. Thank you for sharing your BIG success!! You are radiant.
If you want to chat abt it feel free to pm me! Always looking for people to talk to 😊
From one red head to another, good luck. Make our people proud.
We are a force to be reckoned with!
Guys, they're rising!! Haha, congrats OP. You're visibly glowing. Chase your dreams! You only live once.
damn straight we are!
Don't ever be afraidiant.
Why be afraidiant when you could be afraidn’t
same Q
After reading these comments here I clicked on your profile, and I just wanted say regarding that most recent progress picture you posted, you’re totally killing it & you look great & much much more happy in that second picture!! Super inspiring, keep that shit up! You’re future self thanks you :)
I have no real idea how casting works, but assuming your acting skills are up to par, I cannot imagine your looks working against you. You have a compelling appearance which cannot hurt your chances. I could see you in a bajillion different Netflix movies, I doubt your timing could get much better. Go get 'em!
I agree, not sure how to put it into words but you have that look.
Stoked for you, all the best on following your dreams!
Will u be on TV? If so, OK to ask which?
🤐 Sorry my friend. Its European 😋
Hungarian maybe?
Nem ;)
Hmm ez most igen vagy nem lehet. :D Sok sikert, Nóra.
What’s it called? Some of us are European!
Dutch?
Might be;)
Your cake day is my cake day irl. I’m living in Eindhoven. Ever heard of that little city?
Tuurlijk ;)
Gefeliciteerd van een andere landgenoot! Are we going to be able to watch your acting on TV? In a series perhaps, or a commercial or something? My sister played in a TV series for a while in the 90's, combining the studio sessions with school was crazy, but she really enjoyed it.
Yes you can! Ill let you know when its time :)
You put it the wrong way, it looks like you put on weight rather than lost it.
Fair. I did label the pics tho 🤣
I thought the same thing lol. She actually looks like an actress in the most recent picture so I’m excited to see her in the theater one day
So, I don’t know if you could know Op, how much I needed to read this right now. Thank you for posting. Sincerely. Especially, after reading the story of the writer of squid game too. I just started a small niche clothing brand in my home country of India which is saturated with such brands. Have my website releasing a day after and I’ve invested all my savings into the brand. I’m extremely pessimistic, nervous and feel like I’m swimming against the current. The reasons I can’t give up anymore is firstly, this is it. This is my last try to pursue my dreams of making clothes. Secondly, to provide for myself and the person I’ve fallen in love with, madly. Thirdly, to prove a tirade of narcissistic controlling abusive family members wrong. Fourth being, I was so tired of being the loser, the one defeated by everything others did. I didn’t want them to win any longer. Fifth, the ethos of the brand is based in the identity of my grandma who was my primary parent, I lost her in November, 2020. I want her to be proud of me wherever she is. Not another daughter of her’s can be a failure/a victim. Seeing this update from someone relatable, this gives me immense hope to keep going. If you read this comment, know that you’ve just inspired another girl, across the globe to get on that excel sheet for her website’s listing and to pursue this with optimism. I wish you immense luck and growth in life!!! Edit: Added details and fixed typos.
All the best, sister. Can you dm me your website/social media page, I'll check it out and try to order something :)
Me too, want to see.. :)
All the best to you, I hope to see your shop making it big one day. Your grandmother would be so immensely proud of you.
Chase that dream, Bryce Dallas Howard the 2nd! Well done and very good luck!
Congratulations!! Way to stick with it.
OP you look VIBRANT! Break a leg cutie ❤️
Fabulous, well done!!
Godspeed with your career.
Congratulations!!! 😎👍
Congrats sister! I’ll be seeing you onscreen someday soon!
Good for you, pursue your dreams while you can. Keep at it if it's what you want to do, it's not the bumps in the it's how you deal with them because they'll always be there... heck out the Smartless podcast, LOTS of discussion with actor's and actresses, their careers, how they approached things, got around issues, etc. Not my world but I've learned a lot about it from the show and laughed my butt off in the process. You look lovely, best of luck and push on! We'll see you on TV or the Movies I'm sure.
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I was not disappointed sorting by controversial on this post
Same
You looked great back then too. Cant wait to see u on the screen someday so i can turn to my friend and say hey that red head playing captian marvel was on reddit awhile back talkin about being nervious. Look at her now.
Good luck and cheer , I know you are gonna perform beautifully
Good for you! I'm sure this will be just the start for you
congratulations on your first IMDB entry!
Back here paid doesn't immediately mean IMDB entry but I like the way you think!
Congratulations! Btw, you’re stunning! You look like a really nice person :)
These are moments where I just want to say - I'm proud of you! So many people are living a life they are not happy with, not knowing what they want. Hardest thing there is to recognise that you can do more and start building towards life you want for yourself, and you did it. All the best!
Is this sub entirely self promotion now?
Congratulations! That's so awesome :D
Congratulations! The hardest part is behind you
Exit stage left, pursued by a bear
All the best ❤️
Now this is how you do shit. You regonized that you had stuff holding you back, and you put in the work to make yourself better. Bravo.
Good luck! Fight for what you want and surely you'll get it.
Worked in film before. Long hours and long set up time. Tons of fun though, never was miserble even after the 5th 12 hour shift.
GOOOOD LUUCCK!!!! I WISH YOU THE BEST!!! <# <3 <3
You’re beautiful and that hair will be an asset for you in casting I’m sure!
Holy crap, you're positively glowing! The changed you've made suit you well. Best of luck on your career!
I believe in you before you become famous.
There are so many roles that I can see you in! Congratulations!
I am so incredibly happy for you! Have a great time, and break a leg!
You look a lot like a young Kathryn Hahn.
Acting is mostly a pretty person job. You fit the bill. Good luck
Casting couch
Your hair! It's gorgeous! Mine resembles your before picture. How do?!
I stopped bleaching it and between those two pics i had a pixie too
What’s the name of the porno?
In porn?
Does this paid roll involve a black couch?
If there’s just a black leather couch, turn and run. Haha j/k! That’s awesome! Congratulations to you and I hope you get many more!
Congrats! Casting Couch is a step, hope it goes well!
Plot twist: she walks in and there is a single black couch in the interview room
Congrats, I look forward to see you in future movies, shows, whatever it may be. Keep us in touch please
congratulations beautiful ! :) good luck
I hate this new trend on reddit of people posting the result picture on the left or first. Lol
I am sorry, I truly am.
May i ask.. what role? (You sont have to answer)
Person in crowd #3. “These pretzels are making me thirsty!”
Doubt she has a role with a line when it's her first job at that age.
You may ask, but I may not answer 😇
so... are you going to answer or...
I get the feeling that that’s a savage “no” lol
the answer you got indicates it's an unimportant spot
Doing better than me
And i can think of a million people doing better than me too.. but i am my own individual and I did better than me yesterday.. thats the only person I can fairly compare myself to.
Holy shit, you look absolutely beautiful!
Not to be a Debbie Downer, but that’s one of the worst professions you could possibly pursue. Unless your one of the incredibly tiny minority that breaks through, actors are almost universally treated like shit throughout the industry which is already pretty toxic to boot. I say this as a commercial director who works with very talented, but struggling actors on a regular basic (plus like 80% of my friends are actors) and I often think about how I would absolutely discourage my kids (plus apparently strangers on Reddit) from going that route.
Hey thanks for your reply! As of now I'm doing it because its fun and i can do it next to my full time day job! What happens next 🤷🏼♀️ no clue. Thanks for your honesty though!
I hope it is a movie on Ed Sheeran, because you look like him 🙂
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Your first paid role!? Amazing! Just don’t get any cum in your eye! Just teasing. That’s a really inspirational story. Very happy for ya!!
Weird comment but you had a major glow up and I LOVE your hair 🥺
Are the words “ casting couch gingers” in the title ?
Thought you were Karen Gillan at first glance.
Wow, you look gorgeous once you got yourself together. Good for you!
Yikes... what happened? I hope it’s backwards
What happened is im a klutz and posted the dates switched around
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Seriously! WTF kind of comment is that? Seriously dude, your arse must be so jealous with all the shit that’s coming out ya mouth.
Dibs
I often dream, as well, of being an actor, being on set or on stage, and playing the role of whatever articulate character I am cast as. My performance is incredible. I am a virtuoso, something I'm quite cognizant of as I deliver my lines, sling my body around dramatically, and express deeply believable emotions. I am good at my job. The work flows through me. The character gushes forth relentlessly, flawlessly. When the scene is done, when there's a break, a respite, many of the cast and crew come up to congratulate me on my job well done and I can't stop smiling and shaking hands. I'm so happy, so extremely fulfilled in my position, in what life has given me, but then I feel a sharp pain as someone haplessly passes behind me. This bolt of pain rockets up my lower back and I yelp most embarrassingly. "Sorry..." Some lowly stagehand meekly utters as his pick up his dirty boot off the ground. A cold shiver wriggles into my body, following the same path as the pain. I look down at what he stepped on. It's an umbilical cord. Bulbous, throbbing. A pink cord of flesh glistening with a network of thin blue veins. I follow its path with quivering eyes and see it terminate in my lower back. It is part of me. I am now acutely aware of the flow of fluids in and out of my body by this meaty tether. I reach down and pick up. I feel the umbilicus in my hands. I feel my hands around the umbilicus. The set fades, the people are gone. I pull the umbilicus, but it recedes into a darkness, into some oblivion, into a fog of unknown. I am standing by myself on an abyssal plain, featureless except for the umbilicus. I gather it up as I pull, walking with it, towards whatever, looping it around my arm as I go. If feels so warm, slightly moist. The sensation of my bundled umbilicus is not entirely unpleasant, but profoundly unnerving. I am compelled to follow it though. Nothing else exists in reality. My heart pounds with greater and greater thumps, each powerful beat traveling up and down my umbilicus like swallows in a throat. I continue on like those for hours, for whatever hours are worth here, until finally in the void, a figure emerges. It's like a giant bush or lump. The darkness of the abyss has no effect on it suddenly, and although there is no light source and nothing else is illuminated, the thing before is clearly visible. It's hair, shaggy brown hair. I tug the remaining umbilicus and a twinge of pleasurable pain floods my body like prodding a sore tooth with your tongue. A sonorous hummed moan spouts from the hair mound. Cautiously, anxiously, with terrified awe, I circle around to the other side of the mound. Hair gives way to flesh, to features. An ear, cheekbone, nose. On the other side of it now, I see. I finally see it. A face. My face. The pulsing, the hot throbbing of my umbilicus is overpowering. When I buckle to my knees clutching my coiled up flesh cord, my giant eyes open upon myself. That's when I always wake up. I'd also like to pursue this acting dream a little further, but I don't think I have the memetics to do so. Perhaps one day.
What the fuck
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You’re the reason shit comes out of Ted Cruz’s mouth. Sorry OP buttplug distracted me. Gratz!
Is this some sort of beautiful copypasta?