How Working Actors Survive Rejection (Without Losing Their Minds)

Actors deal with rejection a lot. This week, we're ranking their coping strategies from healthy to completely unhinged.

This week on The Working Actor NYC Podcast, we're diving into one of the most important—and ridiculous—parts of being an actor: coping with the ups and downs of the business.

After a field report from Tribeca Festival, where Benjamin shares what he's learning from inside one of the world's most important film festivals, we turn our attention to the weird, wonderful, and occasionally alarming ways actors deal with rejection, uncertainty, and career chaos.

Meditation? Healthy.

Calling your actor friends? Probably healthy.

Aggressively vacuuming your apartment after not booking the role? The jury is still out.

We rate real actor coping strategies submitted by viewers and deciding whether they're Healthy, Questionable, or Completely Unhinged.