When Felicia Day won the Streamy Award for Best Female Actor in Comedy Web Series for her work in The Guild, she wowed the audience with a frank exploration of some of the challenges the web series faced and explained how being rejected by Hollywood was the impetus she needed to create her own art.
Felicia Day:
As an actor, I want to thank all the casting directors and directors and producers who rejected me horribly and never hired me and didn’t like the way I looked and thought I was nerdy. Because without them like beating me down into the ground and making me depressed I never would’ve picked up a pen and written my own thing, and did it myself around the system.
I feel like this is what this night is about, to celebrate people not waiting for permission to make their art.
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I love how she rose out of the rejection to make her own thing. Inspiring!