Harvey Guillén
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
you gave me the part.
What do you want me to do?
You know, it's just like, direct me, tell me what you want to do.
Uh, but that happens.
You know, I think, uh, Lucas, who played my love interest and companion, uh, just had a book come out.
Shout out to Lucas.
You go get his book.
I wrote this for attention.
Uh, that's the title of the book.
What's the title of the book?
Say it again for attention.
And he talks about like getting fired and like, you know, he got fired from Mad Men and like everyone, every actor should get fired once.
And everyone I know has had a story.
I've had a story like where you, it does humble you because even though you got a job based on like, we love you and that's, and then you get replaced or recast.
Again, it wasn't the right fit, but people make assumptions that, you know, it's smooth sailing.
Like you're always going to be on the smooth path after several.
you're going to be well off money for the rest of your life and that's not necessarily true this isn't like the money that we're making in the you know people are making the 80s and early 90s and films and stuff that's not the so we're so saturated with you know content that there's no way they can pay those uh checks like they used to right maybe one one one one percent you know that uh what has been grandfathered in from that already but no one's getting those checks that the way they used to and so you possibly
have to work on gigs and movies and whatnot to make a living at this because there's so many people out there and hot tour moments where people casting that role goes to someone who is the hot viral moment.