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Have you ever found yourself wondering why your agent's payment of your session fee or residuals is arriving late? Has it been happening more often than expected? Are agents facing financial setbacks due to commercial and television downgrades? It's natural to question whether agents are holding actors' monies until they collect big monthly payouts in interest.

Tiwana Floyd recounts a recent experience that led her to switch commercial agents due to $13,000 in residuals taking 60 days to reach her. This episode is an enlightening journey through the process of tracking down those elusive payments, interacting with payroll companies, and the absolute necessity to take action when something is a rye. 

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It's not unusual for an actor to relocate for a job or in persuit of work. In this episode Jade asks Julia Van Geldern, the relocation queen, what it is like to relocate for acting. Julia has moved from South Africa to New York to LA and now London. How do you settle into a new place? Is it expensive? How do you meet people? Is a visa worth it? Find out all of this and more in this weeks episode.

Are the auditions a little far and few between? Ever thought about creating your own work?
In this weeks episode Jade shares her advice for actors who are interested in writing their own work but have no or little experience in writing. Whether its a showreel scene, a short film, feature or theatre show, check out this episode and find out why it has been so helpful for her career.

Today talented actor, writer, producer ADIZA SHARDOW joins Jade to discuss working for the BBC. With four massive shows under her belt- WATERLOO ROAD, RIVER CITY, CASUALTY and CBBC's LAST COMMANDERS- Adiza shares what really goes on behind the scenes and the pressures of working on a soap. In part one of two episodes, she shares her amazing journey to becoming a series regular on WATERLOO ROAD. 

Alfre Woodard joins as the first guest of this episode. She starts off by revealing why she says “yes” to a role (1:09). She talks about the prisons she visited with Chinonye Chukwu in preparation to play the role of Bernadine (2:54). She explains how an actor’s body is their instrument and that they are trained to play the notes of their emotions. (4:14)Hollywood Unscripted

Alfre discusses her character’s fractured relationship with her husband (5:55), why her profession put the relationship in that position (7:10) and how Bernadine is emotional in a different way than an artist would be (8:20).

She goes further into the actors’ preparation for their roles, reveals the affect it had on her (12:32), describes how the actors were able to show up ready to work together (13:45), and how emotion is not something to be afraid of (14:41).

Chinonye Chukwu, writer and director of , then joins (17:46) and describes how the process of writing this film led her to uproot her life in order to deepen her research (18:04). She discusses choosing to write the story from the perspective of the prison warden (20:18) and talks about teaching her college filmmaking curriculum in a women’s prison (20:37).ClemencyHollywood Unscripted

She recalls how Alfre came aboard the project (21:51) and then talks about working with the team - cinematographer Eric Branco (23:29); editor Phyllis Housen (24:24); actors Danielle Brooks (24:28), Richard Schiff (26:08), and Wendell Pierce (26:29); and producer Bronwyn Cornelius (27:17).Clemency

Chinoye tells how changes to the script were made to focus on Bernadine’s story (27:57). She describes how it feels to have a financially viable film (29:01) and her next steps (30:02).

Finally, she discusses how she chose to begin and end (31:26) the film, the ability to bring joy to a heavy set (33:03), and her advice to aspiring filmmakers (34:28).

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