4 // Handling Performance Anxiety, Casting, Collaborations, and Creating Your Own Hollywood

About this episode

Tyler Lockamy discusses handling performance anxiety, reflections on 'It Follows', and aspirations for collaborations in the film industry.

Send us Fan Mail Ever experienced anxiety before a big performance? Join me on this journey as I share my own tales of handling nerves ahead of a play, explore my reflections on the movie 'It Follows', and unravel the self-created narratives of failure that may be holding us back. What if you could collaborate with your admired directors? I share my aspirations of working with industry stalwarts like SpectreVision, Tyler Cornack, Ryan Kruger, and Jim Cummings. We'll also pull back the curta...

People in this episode

Host: Tyler Lockamy

Topics covered

• performance anxiety
• casting
• collaborations
• film industry
• self-created narratives

Keywords

• performance anxiety
• It Follows
• collaboration
• film industry
• casting
• narratives of failure

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: SpectreVision

Books & works: It Follows

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