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Emlyn McFarland
- Aug 15, 2014
- 2 min
Let me share my two cents.
No not my opinion, my actual two cents. That’s right, the big bucks are rolling in now, residuals baby…I just a got a check in the mail for $.02! The residual check is from a job I did a few years ago, recording voiceover for the adorable show “The Wonder Pets”. I get these checks fairly often, usually for five dollars here or ten dollars there. Residuals are pay for all the times the network re airs an episode or for the sales of the episode on iTunes or usage on Netflix. Th
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Emlyn McFarland
- Aug 1, 2014
- 2 min
Don’t count your chickens before they hatch … but at least get paid for them: Getting cast on Veep,
The last part of this three part epic is sad, short and explains the title. Six months had passed and my episode of Veep was released. I put the episode on and did a slow fast forward through it looking for myself … I was going to watch the whole episode but the suspense was killing me and I had to know what line they used and how it looked. My slow fast forward was about three minutes from the end of the episode and I still hadn’t seen myself. In my script my part was more t
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Emlyn McFarland
- Jul 21, 2014
- 5 min
Don’t count your chickens before they hatch … but at least get paid for them: Getting cast on Veep,
When you’re on the set of a film or television show you meet a lot of interesting people. There are so many different people doing so many different jobs, lighting, sound, production assistants, caterers, wardrobe and background just to name a very few. Background is hard work; I’ve done a decent amount of it. It’s long thankless hours of standing and sitting around and waiting and then when it’s time to work you move to another location and stand and sit around there. I’ve n
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Emlyn McFarland
- Jun 27, 2014
- 3 min
Corporate Comedy
I’ve never really worked for a corporation or even in an office for that matter. When I first moved to New York City straight out of college I was trying to find a day job, the thing actors have to do to make money, I had heard of a lot of people getting work through temp agencies so I went to one. They had me take some basic computer skill tests but I didn’t do very well. I don’t type that fast and when I do type I don’t type properly. In the 5th grade we had to take compute
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Emlyn McFarland
- Jun 20, 2014
- 3 min
Lonely Day
Trying to be a working actor some days are busier than others. Last week I voiced the character of Kitty Pride in an X-Men graphic novel for a company that turns comic books into audio books. It was a really fun job and I hope to work with them again soon. Wednesday I took a workshop with casting director Amy Gossels, I learned a lot, thank you Amy. I spend a lot of time on the Internet searching for castings to submit to and sometimes I do mailings. I go to tons and tons of
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Emlyn McFarland
- May 23, 2014
- 1 min
Strange Audition
#actress #acting #comedy #showbusiness #voiceover
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Emlyn McFarland
- May 16, 2014
- 3 min
Advice From My Mom
Let me start by saying I love my mom and dad. My parents are wonderful people who have been very supportive of my quest to follow my dreams. They are also both full of ideas that they believe would be the key to my success. My mom is a very sweet woman, with a heart of gold. She is a pediatric nurse and in all seriousness I’m not sure how she has the strength to care for sick children, some terminally ill, everyday and still find joy and laughter with her patients and in her
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Emlyn McFarland
- Apr 28, 2014
- 5 min
Hey, You Never Know!
I don’t get sent out for on camera commercial auditions by my agent very often, 99 percent of the time they call me for voiceover auditions. The only reason for this as far as I can tell is because I have an unfortunate face. If anyone else has a better reason for my limited on camera commercial success please send me a message letting me know what you think it is. I’m pretty serious about this, the constructive feedback while being heart wrenching could also be helpful.
Toda
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Emlyn McFarland
- Apr 18, 2014
- 5 min
I booked it!
The whole drive to set I still wouldn’t let myself feel excited, I was completely ready to get there and find out a big mistake had been made and they thought I was someone else. I was fully prepared to be sent home as soon as the director saw me and realized I wasn’t the one he wanted. I carried on none the less remaining calm and steady and really unsure of what to expect. I mean it’s only one line, a kind of important line but still, pretty simple and again just one line.
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Emlyn McFarland
- Mar 28, 2014
- 4 min
I Steal Ham
If you’ve been reading this chronicle of my days and struggle/ journey to become a successful actor you probably notice that it’s a lot of effort for little return. The truth of the matter is all this work for such little recognition and by recognition I mean yes I need for people to like me and approve of me and want to be clapped for and I especially mean MONEY. A lot of resentment builds up in me I’ve noticed and for some reason it all comes out in grocery stores. I’ve rea
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Emlyn McFarland
- Mar 21, 2014
- 7 min
“Deaf Woman’s Little Boy”
This afternoon I had an audition for a certain salad dressing that shall remain nameless as I don’t want to get in trouble or sued for breaking a non disclosure agreement. The company wanted to to anthropomorphize the dressing into a cute bubbly woman salad dressing with curly hair. The kind of salad dressing woman that we can all relate to. They want us the consumer to think “Hey, if I was going to be friends with a salad dressing I would be friends with her!” They had draw
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Emlyn McFarland
- Feb 28, 2014
- 5 min
If I Were Famous Would This Be Funnier?
HOST: So this is your first Emmy nomination and win! ME: Yeah, it’s been amazing. HOST: So people are kind of thinking of you as an overnight sensation but that’s not really true. ME: No not really. I mean I’ve been working as an actor and writer since I graduated college. HOST: Right, you’ve been in voiceovers for a long time. ME: Yeah I’ve voiced a lot of cartoons and commercials. Getting to do voices for Sponge Bob Square Pants and Family Guy was amazing but my favorite is
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