Sunday, January 8, 2012

Can you be an actress if you have really bad "germ" ocd?

So here's the thing. I really love theatre and acting, and people tell me that I create strong characaters and that I'm good and stuff, that the only thing I really need to work on is my projection. Anyway, at my school (I'm in college BTW), They're having auditions for a play coming up. I was really excited about trying out, and then the director says that there is supposed to be a kissing scene and a bedroom scene. There's 2 problems with this. 1 is that I don't even know how to kiss cause I've never been, and 2, I have extremely bad ocd and an extreme irrational fear of germs and diseases. Especially infectious one's like HIV. This really upsets me because as much as I love acting and stuff, I'm beginning to think that maybe I'm not cut out for this or that I should think of something else to do. But I don't really know what else to do. I'm 20, and I have a lot of interests, but I feel that I'm best at theatre and acting. And it's a good release outlet for me as well. My question is, can actors/entertainers be germaphobes? I know howie mandel is. He's like my long lost twin or something, lol. I'm good at medical stuff and the human body but suck at math and science (I even wanted to be a pediatric allergist and immunologist at one time), lol. I love music and singing, but I don't think my voice is amazing and I can only play a little bit of the piano. I can write though, and I'm good with kids and animals. I don't know what to do. Any ideas would be really helpful. Thanks!

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