We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Gui Agustini a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.
Gui, thanks for joining us, excited to have you contributing your stories and insights. Learning the craft is often a unique journey from every creative – we’d love to hear about your journey and if knowing what you know now, you would have done anything differently to speed up the learning process.
Years and countless hours in class, studying, reading, practicing, obsessing over it.
Not sure I could’ve done anything differently to speed up more process. I wish I had started earlier, but other than that I think I did the best I could to speed up lol.
The language and the accents were certainly a huge obstacle for me to overcome and master. But also creating/having confidence and trust in myself. Which is an on going battle and work as one levels up.
We’d love to hear a story of resilience from your journey.
Well, I think that to get far in any profession, resilience is a must. In acting and filmmaking, I mean, in the arts, even more is required I believe. The amounts of NOs, “I’m going a different direction”, getting super close and not getting it are really something. It happens so much. A lot of the time. Most of the time, for most. Of course, theres a very tiny percentage of artists who don’t experience that. But for the 98%, that’s the norm. And for me it was no different. One example I like to give is that it took me at least 30 auditions to book my first American tv show appearance as a co-star and then over 150 auditions, and 10 years, to book a series regular role in the HBO series The Time Travelers Wife last year. Which you won’t even see me, because I didn’t have a character in the show. I was Theo James acting double. Which was amazing and incredible opportunity and I’m super grateful and blessed. But that goes to show you that it can take a lot of time and a lot of resilience. We must love what we do in order to keep going no matter what. And look, I’ve been saying since, it might take me another who knows how many years to get back on a tv show, at any level – I hope it happens in 2023 haha – but it might not, and that’s ok. I will not stop. And maybe I do break into movies first. Or by creating my own movies and/or tv shows. I don’t know. But somehow it’s going to work out. And resilience, because there’s passion and love, is 100% there!
What’s the most rewarding aspect of being a creative in your experience?
Expressing, dealing with emotions and stories are definitely big rewards of being an actor/filmmaker. But I think the #1 is the deep dive in learning about ourselves, others, skills, history, etc, that we are required to do. It’s fascinating. And I love it. It’s so dynamic. And so intriguing. Oh, also, the wonderful deep connections and friends we get to create because of the art of collaboration. I so love that
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Livia Wippich