[mlinhares]

So much so people do anything to try to become an actor, the ones that make i are an incredibly small fraction of the actual pool. Worse, most of those you see on the screen are also not rich or making bank, sometimes they're just paying the bills.

[kakacik]

One has to come to LA (ideally live there a bit) to see with their own eyes the amount of people trying to break through in movie industry.

Armies of wanna-be actors and actresses, but also ie screenwriters. We only see publicly the result of many consecutive layers of filters/funnels.

[CuriouslyC]

It's an old running joke that most waiters/baristas/etc in LA are aspiring actors. It's part of the reason that service workers in LA are so uncommonly hot on average.

[mlinhares]

Broadway and off-broadway are the same.