Use Whatever You’ve Got
Sometimes the path to where you want to go isn’t direct. There’s an actor
named Zoë Bell who started out as a stuntwoman. She worked on a ton of
Quentin Tarantino’s films and was the stuntwoman
for Uma Thurman in
Kill Bill
. She was working with Tarantino so often that he ended up casting
her in a leading role in his 2007 movie
Death Proof
. Though Bell started in
stunt work, she provided something of value, fostered a relationship with
one of the top directors in Hollywood, and got into acting in an unexpected
way.
David Leitch’s story is similar. Originally a stuntman in films such as
V
for Vendetta
,
Fight Club
,
300
, and
The Bourne Supremacy
, he fostered
relationships and went on to become a second unit director. Eventually, he
directed
John Wick
,
Atomic Blonde
, and
Deadpool 2
.
What’s the moral of the story here? Sign up for stunt class? No. Ask
yourself what you can offer of value to influential people in your industry.
Stand out,
get noticed, and be different. And what you can offer doesn’t
necessarily have to be the exact thing you’re trying to do. Something as
simple as being a runner or an extra in another influencer’s content could
lead to future content collaboration. The bottom line is that providing value
to influential people in your industry allows you to start an authentic
relationship with them.
It gets you on their radar, and as the relationship
builds, the likelihood that they’ll want to help you or leverage your talents
increases dramatically.
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