Who Wants To Be A Suprhero - Please Read

[Mark CMG]

It seems like simple advice but it is so often ignored. Like with any job, at all, find out what they want and give it to them on time. Wish her luck!

 

[Goodsport]

I can't wait for the show's second run!


-G

 

[Richards]

Has anybody heard an air time for the second "season" yet?

Johnathan

 

[ThirdWizard]

2. Don't worry about losing a challenge. The challenges are not important in themselves but rather the importance is in the contestants willingness to try thier hardest and behave like a hero. Do not complain about fairness or your personal problems.

I'm going to re-emphasize this. If there's a choice between being heroic and winning the challenge, always choose the heroic option. Stan is looking for good people instead of people trying to win a contest.

 

[Pyrex]

Note that being an out-of-work actor seems to increase your chances of being on the show in the first place.

Not necessarily. I find it likely that a huge portion of the people who auditioned were out of work actors because the happen to be a *lot* of out of work actors in LA.

Percentage-wise, it therefore follows that many of the people who make it onto the show will have had some acting experience.

That being said, being a decent actor with the ability to stay in-character certainly wouldn't hurt.

 

[Gomez]

My seven year old son kept asking me how he could get on the show!

 

[Mistwell]

Not necessarily. I find it likely that a huge portion of the people who auditioned were out of work actors because the happen to be a *lot* of out of work actors in LA.

Percentage-wise, it therefore follows that many of the people who make it onto the show will have had some acting experience.

That being said, being a decent actor with the ability to stay in-character certainly wouldn't hurt.

1) The reason actors were cast, is because they advertised for them. The ads for the first season were run on Actor's Access, which is the place that production companies advertise for actors. You ask for actors, and you get actors. Why they are not at San Diego Comic Con instead looking for people I do not know. This time around, at least they made more of an effort to find non-actors, or people who had acting experience but who are not primarily actors.

2) "Out of work" is a silly notion in that field. Almost every actor is "out of work" every year unless they are on a soap opera which requires 5-day a week work for 52 weeks a year. Even big stars are out of work the moment their movie wraps or TV show goes into summer hiatus, and they don't have another one already starting. So an out of work actor is someone looking for their next project, and not necessarily a wannabe-actor. It's a different kind of industry than most, and I think it is easy to be derogatory towards actors not currently on a project because the industry makes fun of itself a lot and people pick up on that attitude.

3) Being on TV naturally attracts people who like the television industry and acting. If you are shy and do not like the camera, the studio, the process of filming, or the idea that people will watch you on TV, then you are naturally disinclined to apply.

 

[Rackhir]

I'm going to re-emphasize this. If there's a choice between being heroic and winning the challenge, always choose the heroic option. Stan is looking for good people instead of people trying to win a contest.

Basically I agree, but I have to expect that they are going to use this expectation to screw with people in the second season.

 

[Brown Jenkin]

Basically I agree, but I have to expect that they are going to use this expectation to screw with people in the second season.

Well even last season some of the contestants picked up what was happening. Look at Major Victory and the lost child. There was playing to the cameras if ever there was. It didn't help that the signs for the security office were so badly done. The only was to screw with people this time is to delay that type of challenge and just plain do it better (less obvious). The other option is to make them figure out who is really in trouble and who is faking to distract the heros from thier task. Either way my orginal thesis holds. It is not about winning the challenges by trying ones hardest while still behaiving like a hero.

The perfect example trying ones hardest even if sucess was unlikely was Monkey Woman and the dogs. She rightly figured that the dogs wouldn't/couldn't really hurt them so she decided to tough it out as long as it took whether she succeded or not and was rewarded for it. Cell phone girl on the other hand gave up right away and complained and got in trouble.