EZRA'S HEADSHOTS

Home>  Resume>   Contact Information>  Photo Index>  News>   My Reel>

The CURRENT Ones.

I had my hair bleached for a movie above right. 

Not as new, but still representative headshots.

  Shots from a previous life.

Headshots are perhaps the most important tool an actor has in his or her search for employment.  They are used to interest agents in representing them, to entice managers with the promise of finding the next Julia Roberts, and to give paper cuts to casting directors' assistants as they toss them into the circular file.  Actors are obsessed with the search for the perfect headshot.  They will spend hundreds maybe thousands of dollars to get them made and reproduced.  They will show the proof sheets to each other for days, making tallies of what each person thinks are the best shots, showing them at their sexiest, goofiest, prettiest, most handsome, most buxom, the ones that highlight their biceps, their chests, their big parts and their small ones.   It is an obsession.  They are always outdated.  The agents always want new ones.  Their photographers are the best.  The photographer was a hack.   Can you believe how old they make me look?  All actors own a loop, a special magnifier to look at contact sheets.  No career move is possible without the ritual of getting new headshots.  Actors that have never held a job have headshots that are only fifteen minutes old.  Actors that have Oscars use ones that are twenty years old, if they have any at all. 

Home>  Resume>   Contact Information>  Photo Index>  News>   My Reel>

07/30/05