Meet Alfonso Aguirre

We were lucky to catch up with Alfonso Aguirre recently and have shared our conversation below.

Alfonso, first a big thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts and insights with us today. I’m sure many of our readers will benefit from your wisdom, and one of the areas where we think your insight might be most helpful is related to imposter syndrome. Imposter syndrome is holding so many people back from reaching their true and highest potential and so we’d love to hear about your journey and how you overcame imposter syndrome.

I would be lying if I said I’ve never experienced imposter syndrome. Self doubt is a very common feeling to experience, and I would dare say that it’s even more common when you choose to pursue a career in the arts. You are being observed meticulously, and there are so many voices, opinions, criticism (both constructive and destructive) – so it can be hard to decide which are the right ones to pay attention to.

When I started acting, the problem I had, as many new actors do, was that I wanted to do a good job. I was too focused on making sure my audition or scene ‘looked good’. That is a beginner’s way to approach acting. And it’s okay – it’s a starting point. But as I continued my training, I learned that what I had to focus on was on living truthfully in the moment and just completely diving into it. If you do the work of understanding the scene and your character, the rest will eventually fall into place. So when you stop caring about how it looks and you focus on being present, that’s when the magic happens (and it actually ends up looking good!).

After you finish an audition, that self doubt can creep again, because you want to make sure you did a good job, of course. So the best thing to do to overcome it is by preparing as much as you can, being present in the moment, listening to your scene partner or reader, and then just letting go. If you put in the work, you just have to trust it. If the role is for you, it will come to you. Do not stress about it. Just have fun and let go.

Let’s take a small detour – maybe you can share a bit about yourself before we dive back into some of the other questions we had for you?

I am an active actor and I also coach other actors with their auditions for commercials, television and film projects. I teach in person and online. I have students in Texas, California, New Mexico, Arizona, Michigan and Florida, and I help them to understand the characters they are playing and to put their audition on tape.

I was a co-star in season 6 of AMC/SONY’s Better Call Saul, played a lead in the mini series Recuerdos de mi Abuelo by the ECHAR Network, some short films and I’ve also been in several national and regional commercials, shot in California, New Mexico and Texas.

I am excited and grateful that my team keeps expanding, as I am represented by Page Parkes in Texas and the Southwest and Evolve Artists Agency and Monroe Talent Management in Los Angeles. As of this summer, I am also represented now by DDO Artists Agency in Atlanta and the South East and by 10 MGMT in Chicago and the Mid West. This has resulted in a series of auditions for much bigger roles for television and film, so this is an exciting time. I am truly grateful.

There is so much advice out there about all the different skills and qualities folks need to develop in order to succeed in today’s highly competitive environment and often it can feel overwhelming. So, if we had to break it down to just the three that matter most, which three skills or qualities would you focus on?

(1) Discipline is perhaps the most important one. If you want to achieve any goal in life, you have to work at it every day. This also teaches you to have (2) Patience, which would be the second skill. Discipline and patience can accomplish anything. And of course, you have to (3) Trust Yourself. If you have the discipline and patience to learn your craft, you will develop your instincts, and you have to trust them!

Alright so to wrap up, who deserves credit for helping you overcome challenges or build some of the essential skills you’ve needed?

I truly believe that nobody can do this alone. I am grateful for the people around me. My wife, my friends, my representatives, my teachers, my colleagues, even my students, they’ve all helped me a lot. The positive community that surrounds me has always encouraged me on those times when I needed an extra push, and I do not take that for granted, so I try to do the same for them.

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