Acting for Battlefield: Hardline, working with Vanilla Ice, and Audiobook Narration with Scott Levy

Scott Levy was a Stinger Missile Gunner in the Persian Golf war. Since then Scott has had a lead role in ‘Helix Loaded’, played in ‘Ayn Rand: Who is John Galt?’. and many other rolls in movies and television Scott has used his vocal and motion capture talents for multiple video games.

In this podcast Tom Morkes, Trevor Scott and Justin Sloan discuss with Scott:

His professional history as an actor and time in the Marine Corps
How Scott got his start doing audio at Full Sail University and working for George Lucas
What Scott’s experience was like transitioning from working audio with George Lucas to being an actor
How Scott dealt with the fear of starting over, beginning at the bottom of the acting profession
Scott talks to us about the ups and downs of ‘making it’ in the acting business
Scott discusses the importance of saving your money and why you should never stop hustling for jobs
We ask Scott what a day in his life is like
Trevor and Scott explain how shooting a film on location is similar to running a military exercise
We talk about some of Scott’s experience that have been out of his comfort zone or required going through challenging experiences
Scott gives his advice on how to capitalize on success and his tips for self promotion
We talk about how the number of veterans and how vets where treated in Hollywood has changed since both 9.11 and the advent of the internet
Scott tells us about his experience of narrating audio books
Trevor and Scott give us some advice on how to get over the stigma of being an actor