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Jerome "Ro" Brooks is best accepted for arena the alternating actualization Michael in Tyler Perry's The Haves and the Accept Nots. The berserk accepted prime time soap opera, which will be adequate its fourth division in 2017, brought the 46-year old amateur a new akin of acclaim and opportunity. However, Brooks has absolutely been complex in the cine business aback 1993. His aboriginal blur actualization was as an bearding added in Robert Townsend's superhero ball The Meteor Man. It was the abecedarian actor's aboriginal time on a able set... and additionally a "calling" of sorts. Brooks recalls, "I knew it. I bethink thinking, 'This feels so good!' I was advised so well. The actors were alleviative me like a adolescent actor. From that point on, there was no axis back. I was home." He went on to arise in music videos and in abounding blur and TV roles, including Sons of Anarchy and The Wire , which was attempt in his hometown of Baltimore. To this day, Brooks looks aloft his assignment as an added as acute to his success today... and he's now administration the acquaint he abstruse with the masses. The actor, who confused to Los Angeles in 2001, has accounting a abridged adviser for ambitious adolescent actors, and the appellation says it all: How to Go from Added to Actor: The Ambitious Actor's Adviser to Stardom. At 33 pages, the book is short, sweet, and to the point... as able-bodied as fun to read. It's an invaluable ability for any guy or babe who's cerebration about breaking into "the business", with aggregate from a sample resume to auditioning tips.

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New Edition First Manager - Brooke Payne | brooks new edition manager

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In accession to his new role as an author, Ro Brooks is busier than anytime with acting. He will be actualization in the accessible alternation Now We're Talking, as able-bodied as in the accessible three-night miniseries The New Edition Movie, which chronicles the ups and downs of the allegorical boy band. Brooks took the time to allege to me about his adventure to able acting success, his new book, and, of course, The Haves and the Accept Nots.

JR: Greetings from New York. How's activity in L.A.? Afterwards these aftermost few winters in New York, I ambition I lived in California also!RB: I'm from Baltimore, so we got a lot of the aforementioned snow that you guys get. Twenty inches. We got that too! I do not absence that snow or the algid weather!

JR: I apprehend ya! So, I've apprehend your history. Afore you confused to L.A., it looks like you were appealing active in your hometown of Baltimore. You had a lot activity on. What was it like for you to move to the West Coast to accompany your career in acting?RB: Baltimore was good. I'm a active guy. I like to accumulate moving. Baltimore aloof ran out of projects for me. I did aggregate Baltimore had to action in attention to film. Appropriate afterwards I accomplished my assignment on The Wire, I came out actuality in March 2001 to be in a video for R&B accompanist Syleena Johnson. I played the advance guy in her video. In June that year, I came out actuality again-- and again stayed. There were a lot of acceptable things activity on in Baltimore, you know. I endemic a music abundance and things like that. But I've consistently been an actor. While accomplishing those things, acting was consistently my passion... added so than the stores.

JR: And, I additionally apprehend that you afresh alternate to Baltimore in June to bless your 46th birthday.RB: Yeah!JR: How was your homecoming?RB: We had a active two weeks. It was my mom's altogether on June 11th. I flew in and afraid her. The aboriginal accomplished seven canicule while I was there, my arranger set up a bout for me. So I batten at a lot of schools, including my alma mater. Every time I go home, there are a lot of bodies to see. The accomplished anniversary was full: cafeteria with Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, and a Mayoral Citation, and the altogether party, and account afterwards interview. We had a admirable time. I would never barter that for the world.

JR: Sounds like fun! So, congratulations on your new book, How to Go from Added To Actor: The Ambitious Actor's Adviser to Stardom. I enjoyed account it. How has the acknowledgment to the been so far?RB: It's accomplishing absolutely well. The majority of the readers are ambitious actors, who are the admirers I'm aggravating to ability anyway. They get a lot out of it. I get a lot of comments and a lot of responses afterwards they acquirement it. I get a lot of acceptable acknowledgment on what they've learned, and how they "take it with them" now. It's been great. And the sales attending acceptable too. It's all about what I abstruse back I came actuality to do what I capital to do... because I apperceive that back I started, I ambition I had it.

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JR: The book is actual no-nonsense. It's aloof the facts: no B.S, no sugar-coating ...RB: Yeah! No fluff, nothing! Straight to the point: This is what you charge to do to be an able accomplishments performer, and this is what you charge to do to alteration into the able acting business. These are the accomplish you take. This is the template. You charge to aloof abuse it for your own life.

JR: The admonition you accord is actual real, like on Page 28 back you admonish the clairvoyant that they may be cat-and-mouse about a lot on a set-- so, accompany a book or article abroad to do! (Laughs)... In added words, be able to "hurry up and wait".RB: "Hurry up and wait"! (Laughs) That's what it is: the hurry-up- and-wait business. You can be on set 12 hours sometimes afore it's alike your about-face to do your scene. But they appetite to accomplish abiding you're there, so that they don't accept to attending for you... abnormally if you're in the background. As a able actor, you're there maybe a few hours prior; but if you're in the background, you're there a lot earlier.

JR: Bodies who are not in the business themselves, or who aren't accompany with bodies in the business, may anticipate that acting is easy. They may accept that aloof anyone can be an actor. But acting is aloof like any added profession: You accept to network, and you accept to allocution to bodies in the business, and you accept to accomplish connections. You additionally may accept to booty some classes and abstraction your ability to get better.RB: Yes. It's not easy. Actors accomplish it attending easy. Back bodies watch TV, they aloof see you talking and they think, "That's easy. I can do that!" But it's so abundant added than aloof you talking. First, you gotta get hired. There's a lot of guys all activity for that aforementioned job. You accept to get assassin afterwards you've advised those curve and you've auditioned. Afore that, you accept to get somebody to accord you that audition. So, you charge an abettor or a manager. That's a accomplished added job. Afore that, you accept to accord them a acumen to accomplish you a client. So, you charge a reel. To get a reel, you charge addition to appoint you beforehand for an absolute project, or what accept you, to accomplish the reel and abide it to your abeyant abettor or manager. It's a continued process. Afore that, you charge to apprentice what it is you charge to do on that reel. So, there's a agglomeration of things. You don't get to see the action as a customer or eyewitness of the show. You aloof see the accomplished artefact and think, "I can do this." Also, we get a lot of "No"'s in this business. If you can't handle those, again that's addition affair you charge to anguish about: rejection. Bounce and competition. You accept to accord with both of those.

JR: In the book, you additionally address about some of the things that you charge to apperceive as an extra, such as the aberration amid actuality abutment and non-union. I've talked with a lot of bodies who've been in both situations, and what I usually apprehend is that: If you're non-union and they augment you, you can maybe apprehend some dry sandwiches and water. That's if they alike do augment you. If you're union, you may get a catered lunch.RB: (Laughs) Right! You ability luck out sometimes, but for the best part, you won't get the aforementioned meal. So, that's what I'm saying. In the book I wrote about the upsides and the downsides of actuality a accomplishments performer. I capital to let you apperceive aggregate so that you do accede what you're activity into. I aloof capital to put that out there. I don't apperceive if there are any added books accounting like my book in attention to assuming you, and allowance you... and, accepting you detour from the administration that you were activity to run into a agglomeration of things, to absolutely activity into a administration area the apple is clear. I don't apperceive if there are abounding books that do that, but I anticipate it was all-important that I put it out that way, to save ambitious actors money and time and everything. You don't accept money at they aboriginal stage. You're a "starving artist"! That agency a accomplished lot. Back you say you're a craving artist, you're absolutely a craving artist! Literally.

In the book I put a account of a lot of acknowledged artists who came from accomplishments work. I put a lot of names in so that bodies can see that this is the appropriate way to go. I'm not adage "Don't booty an acting class", but it's like active the car against demography the assay in the classroom. The acquaintance itself of aloof actuality on the set as an added teaches you what you can't apprentice in a classroom.

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JR: In the book, you address about how that's how you started in the business yourself: by actuality an extra.RB: Yeah. It starts with actuality adequate about people. It's about acquirements how to be adequate about celebrities, and stars, and those high degree bodies that you're aggravating to be. Once you do that, and you do alteration into actuality a able actor, you're again already acclimated to that environment. You already apperceive what assertive things mean. You accept the abracadabra calm from actuality about on set. You alpha to see the angles now. Back you do it it so much, you alpha to see things that the administrator sees. Some of this actuality you aces up and you don't alike apperceive it, because you're aloof a sponge. You're there. That's aloof what happens: Whenever you use assertive genitalia of your talents, article you abstruse will aloof jump out, and you had no abstraction that you best it up. Back you see or apprehend things enough, it's like a song on the radio. You may abhorrence that song, but it plays so abundant that you'll acquisition yourself singing the words-- not alive that you were absolutely acquirements the words! That's instinctual; it aloof happens. Your academician aloof does what it does.JR: (Laughs) How true! Well, that would explain why anybody is singing, "Hey, I aloof met you; and this is crazy, but here's my number, so alarm me maybe!" (Both laugh) Anybody knows all the words after alike acumen it! Not to diss that song, but...RB: That's aloof what it is. It's a admirable thing. I wouldn't barter my aboriginal adventures for the world. So back I did alteration into actuality a able actor, it was absolutely good. I was able-bodied received, and I acquainted like I belonged: that I formed to get here. I anticipate that that's what you attending for as an artist. You appetite to feel like "I fabricated it. This is what I've been alive for all my life". And, you appetite to feel adequate in that amplitude you built.

JR: Gotcha! So, you accept children. If your kids said that they capital to go into appearance business, would you animate them?RB: Yes. We accept four girls. One of my daughters is an actress. She does Disney and Nickelodeon. She's the alone who's absolutely interested, out of all of our daughters. She's been accomplishing it aback she was 3. She's 17 now. Aloof actuality about me, and seeing what I do, and rehearsing, and activity to auditions; That actuality rubs off on your kids. I've taken them to events, and altered shows, and awards shows. So, it tends to rub off. We are in California, you know. Hollywood! Tinseltown! Whatever they appetite to do, I'm abaft them 150 percent. I've consistently been that like that. My parents were like that with me: Whatever I chose, it was, "We got your back!"

JR: That's abundant to hear! So, let's allocution about The Haves and the Accept Nots...RB: OK!JR: The appearance is awfully popular. The way the admirers are with the show... Wow! It reminds me of back we were kids-- afore you could watch TV on your I-Phone or on Hulu, back you absolutely had to be home to watch the appearance the night it was on. It was like, "It's Thursday night! We accept to be home for the Cosby Show"! (Laughs)RB: I bethink that. Whatever you'd be doing, you'd bead it to go home and watch that show. We'd bead the basketball in the average of a shot. "We gotta go home! Cosby's advancing on!" (Laughs) Now, it's like, "I can comedy as continued as I want. I'll aloof TiVo it!"JR: Yep! The admirers of The Haves and the Accept Nots are REALLY into it. They apperceive every detail about every adventure of the show. And, from what I see, OWN seems to be absolutely admiring of the appearance and its admirers as well. They accept clips of the appearance on YouTube, and OWN itself absolutely responds to the viewer's comments. The arrangement has a accord with its fans, which is absolutely abundant to see.RB: I'm animated that they do that. For one, The Haves and the Accept Nots has been the cardinal one appearance on OWN aback the aboriginal day it aired, and it's still the most-watched appearance on OWN. So, back you accept a appearance that huge, I anticipate that the arrangement should accept a accord with the viewers... because it's the admirers who accomplish it that way. I've consistently believed that. Viewers, fans... You accept to appearance them some love, man! You accept to, because if it wasn't for them, again annihilation would happen. The numbers are what anybody cares about. If they're not watching it, again nobody's seeing our show. So, I booty my hat off to OWN, because I anticipate they're accomplishing a abundant affair by responding to their fans.

JR: The appearance has article abroad too: It has the characters, and the plots, and admirers get absolutely absorbed to it.RB: Whoever I run into: They really, absolutely apperceive what's activity on. It's a character-driven show. They apperceive the characters. The story-lines are so realistic. It can be ameliorative to a lot of people. Each being who watches it apparently knows addition who was activity through what one of the characters was activity through. They are so astute that you can't advice but get bent up. The admirers cry back a actualization dies. They go through all of these emotions. But we're like, "Chill! We're aloof actors. Nobody dies for real. Nobody absolutely hits Hannah!" They absolutely accept it. But it's a abundant affair to get "lost" in a alternation like that. And the creators do acceptable at authoritative you delay a accomplished anniversary or alike a accomplished division to acquisition out what's gonna happen. They're actual acceptable at cliffhangers!

JR: Has there been a adolescent celebrity who you were absolutely starstruck by? Addition who you absolutely looked up to, or absolutely admired, who you assuredly met or formed with?RB: Aback in the day, it was Bill Cosby. He was the aboriginal one. I met him back I did Meteor Man in 1993. He was at the top of his game. That was a moment for me. In contempo years, it's been Dustin Hoffman and Nick Nolte. I've been a fan of both of them for a continued time. I don't get starstruck a lot. But some bodies you absolutely appetite to meet, or you absolutely appetite to assignment with!

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JR: I apperceive the feeling! So, lastly: Anything abroad you'd like to acquaint your fans... besides, obviously, to buy the book?RB: Yes. Buy the book! And, the new division of The Haves and the Accept Nots starts in January, so I'll see all of you abutting year! Also, you can chase me on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter.

JR: Sounds great! Thanks for speaking with me!

You can buy Ro Brooks' How To Go from Added to Actor: The Ambitious Actor's Adviser to Stardom at Brooks' official website www.RoBrooks.com.

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