SHORT TAKES : Soap Actress Gives Career Hints
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Veteran soap actress Frances Reid says times have changed for aspiring actors and actresses.
“In my day, you could have a career if you stood up straight and spoke your lines loud and clear,” the Emmy nominee said in the Sept. 1 issue of TV Guide. “Now, being prepared is more important than ever. To survive today’s competition, you have to be able to act, sing, dance . . . and strip.”
Reid, who once landed a stage role as Roxanne opposite Jose Ferrer’s Cyrano de Bergerac, today plays great-great-grandmother Alice Horton on NBC’s “Days of Our Lives.”
She also helps with career-orientation sessions for the television performers’ union, the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists.
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