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their kids. I did talent management for
about five years. Then a little less than
a year ago, I was asked to join Zuri as
an agent.
Now your kids, what are the ranges in
age, and boys, girls?
I have a four year old little girl, almost
five and I have a fifteen year old son
and a seventeen year old daughter.
And are they still involved in the acting?
My oldest, my sixteen year old is involved. She’s got a short film coming
out this month. She still does a lot of
music as well. My fourteen year old
gave it up, doesn’t want to do it. And
my three year old, we’re not sure what
we want to do, if we want to do it or not,
we’re waiting for her to ask.

the industry they want their kid to be
involved in or what their kid’s interest
is. Is it modeling, is it commercials, is
it theatrical meaning TV and film, or
is it theater? All those are the different
choices that the kids can make. Then
based on that I think it’s important for
the parents to look through as many
agencies’ websites as they can so that
they know what agency sort of fits with
them. You don’t want to just go this is a
good agency because my friend’s with
them. You’ve got to look for what specific things your kid wants to do and if
that agency will cater to that. Then, follow the submission instructions online.
I think most agencies have an online
submission process. And submit. Don’t
submit through Facebook or Twitter,
like a lot of people try to do. Make sure
you have your contact phone number.
Submit really good pictures, because
you get one shot. Submit multiple pictures.

So right now as an agent, what are
some of the things that would help Now for the pictures, should they be
out somebody that’s wanting to get – for you, when you’re looking at the
their kid involved in the industry, as pictures – how much do you want
far as what are the steps as far as to them edited or not edited?
get in touch with your agency or any
other agency – what’s usually the pro- It depends on the age of the kids. If
we’re talking about really young kids,
tocol as to what they would do?
like under four, they can be snapshots.
If a parent wants to get their kids in- But some parents send snapshots of the
volved in the industry, it’s important kid a mile away and they expect us to
that they know exactly what part of be able to see the kid. So we want to see

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