In this excerpt, from one of our LET’S SHOOT THE REHEARSAL weekend-intensive on-camera retreats in NYC, Industry VIP Yul Vazquez drops in to discuss the power we have as actors. He talks about treating auditions as being your time just as much as anyone else’s, approaching the role in your own way (in case you get the gig and have to do it for 10 years), begging for forgiveness rather than asking permission (when trying something new) and not allowing your creative wings to be clipped by negative feedback or rejection.

Yul has been all over your TV screens, movie screens and theaters for decades. As a founding member of the LABrynth Theater Company in NYC alongside Philip Seymour Hoffman and John Ortiz, Yul went on to work all over the place, most recently as a series regular on Apple TV’s Severance and HBO Max’s Whitehouse Plumbers.

10,000 NOs podcast is now in it’s 2.0 phase: after a long pause from late 2021 to late 2023, it has returned in a more raw format: shorter episodes, like the old Monday Morsels (they may be short, solo riffs by Matt on central themes of the pod, excerpts from Matt’s 10,000 NOs Insiders Community Zooms, or excerpts from Insiders VIP sessions with VIPs from the entertainment interview and beyond) are the short-form our old long-form Friday Interviews of 10,000 NOs may pop up every now and then as bonus episodes.

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