The Hollywood Reporter on Julia Garner

Today I read my first Hollywood Reporter article. I usually don’t read stuff like this but I now have to for film class ha ha. This article was talking about actress Julia Garners rise to fame. I haven’t really heard about her but one part of the article that stuck out to me was that she failed an audition for a Nickelodeon show once but instead of discouraging her it actually encouraged her to keep trying. Look at her now she’s as the article states “a scene stealer and an Emmy favorite.” This is a very encouraging thing for up and coming actors and actresses. It reminds me of the story of how Jazz musician Charlie Parker became famous. He was 17 and was invited to play the saxophone with a band that featured Count Basie orchestra drummer Joe Jones. However Parker messed up an improvisation and that led to Jones angrily throwing a Cymbal at His feet and him getting laughed offstage. However instead of discouraging Parker this actually encouraged him to try harder and the next year he was totally different. I learned that from the movie “Whiplash” and in it JK Simmons character says “Now imagine if Jones didn’t throw a Cymbal at Parker imagine if he just said ‘well that’s ok Charlie you did alright good job’ and Charlie thinks ‘we’ll maybe I did do a good job’ end of story no bird.” He argues here that then Charlie wouldn’t have practiced harder. So I guess in some people’s view “good job” just means stay the way you are and never try to be better. Well clearly Julia Garner didn’t just settle for Good job and instead try harder just like Charlie Parker did and I think every up and coming actor should do the same.