Alright – so today we’ve got the honor of introducing you to Jeremy Burnett. We think you’ll enjoy our conversation, we’ve shared it below.
Jeremy, looking forward to hearing all of your stories today. 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.
Studying and training in NYC/NJ. I used to think that something could speed up my journey but I truly believe that the path I’m is unique to me. I need all the heart breaks, heart aches, growth, joy, struggles, pain, love, everything all makes you a better human a better actor. The skills that I think are most essential are leaning the business of acting, learning craft and learning how to audition. 3 different things… If anything stood on the way of me learning more it was probably perfectionism and sometimes limited beliefs.
Awesome – so before we get into the rest of our questions, can you briefly introduce yourself to our readers.
I’m an actor. I act in Tv, commercials and film. Ive been very fortunate and blessed to be doing for over a decade now. I got started at Penn state taking an intro to theatre class which I loved but that was the only taste of acting that I got. Then I graduated had a full time job and didn’t feel like I was living my purpose, I wasn’t happy, I would come home and be drained, depressed and I didn’t understand what was going on at the time. Then I read the alchemist and things started to change for me…. I decided to quit and try to do something that I enjoyed, that I loved…
We’d love to hear a story of resilience from your journey.
I was talking to someone about acting and they had mentioned how they had someone in their life who hates going on job interviews . and then said to me that they couldn’t imagine being an actor because its because like job interview after job interview after job interview after job interview after job interview for weeks, months, years sometimes. and it can be like that you get told no so many times and a lot of times its not even about you. so I think for me to be doing this over a decade going from background/extra work to featured extra to commercials to speaking roles….is resilience…
What’s a lesson you had to unlearn and what’s the backstory?
perfectionism. aloto of the times growing up I would be scared to do things if I wasnt already good or if I didn’t completely know what I was doing. which stops you from taking risks, can stop you from failing and growing from the failure. So I think it plagued me in everything from school to video games to sports. I slowly got out of it as I started to grow, did some self reflection and read the mountain is you by Brianna Wiest and the altar within by Juliet Diaz.. A lot of self work, not being afraid to take a risk… I mean its never really as bad as you think it will be .
Contact Info:
- Website: https://linktr.ee/jeremyburnett
- Instagram: jeremyburnett1
Image Credits
Apple Pay commercial, red lobster commercial and yellow belly Nyc