if you were working in any other business, youd hand out little calling cards with your company logo, your name, your title, and direct telephone number. In theBusiness, your calling card is an 8×10 black-and-white photo. Actors introduce themselves with a photo: they refresh contacts memories with a photo. That picture is you to all the people you’ve met and hope to meet. The picture must look like you. Not what you want to look like, your fantasy image: not what the photographer thinks you should look like, with elaborate makeup and lighting tricks and electric fans blowing your hair. You. The you that is going to walk into the casting office or the agent’s office. An extended handshake.
