Warren Adams is an international actor who found his passion for performing and entertaining people when he was 15 years old! Now he is active in several theater productions, films, series and commercials!
Hi Warren, tell us about yourself and how your career as an actor began?
Hey! Well it all started at around 15 years old. I joined a youth theatre in my local town back in the UK and performed in a number of productions, including West Side story (where I played Bernardo), Titanic, Fame and many others!
It was here that I realised my passion for performing and entertaining people. I also received good feedback from other performers, directors and members of the general public. Feedback Is very important, in order to learn and grow and is sometimes ignored and taken for granted. I believe that whether positive or negative, it can always be used as fuel to drive you forwards.
What roles and productions have you participated in?
I have performed on stage and screen for the last 15 years in countries such as the Uk, Germany, Hong Kong and now Sweden.! See below.
Theatre productions include:
TV Credits:
Commercials:
Photo from the role: Police Detective - TVB Flying Tiger - Main tv station in HK.
Tell us more about the process from audition to you getting a certain role?
There are usually at least two castings before most jobs, initially followed by a recall and in some extreme cases there may be more. The police detective role, in HK, was probably the most interesting process.
I got a call from a casting lady in HK, who said they were looking for someone that looked like me for a few episodes on a tv show. I was aware of the production, but wasn’t sure I was right for the role at the time. Largely because I had to speak Cantonese! This was not down on my CV! But as with the beauty of this industry, I went along to the casting. It took place in a small room in the middle of an industrial building, often the case.. I ran lines from one of the scenes, with production members, both in English and Cantonese.. didn’t hear anything for a very long time and then. Got the call.
The days on set were VERY LONG, but also fun. I came to the scene where I had to speak Cantonese with the actor from HK, I was nervous, flying through the lines over and over again to make it as natural as possible. He looked at me just before the scene and said, you speak Cantonese right?? I looked at him and said, not until today!
To this day, I'm not sure whether anyone understood me, but it felt good and the reaction was positive. Plus I got to fire a weapon in a giant shootout.. (This was also unexpected). They asked whether I had fired a weapon before.. I said no.. they said, do this, do that and you're good to go. :).. it went well in case you were wondering, but my goodness were those blanks loud!.
What are your best tips for others who also want to succeed?
Urm, well I will try to avoid as many cliches as possible here, when I say it's hard! I'm still not where I want to be, but what I can tell you is that there is no other feeling like it. Entertaining people and hopefully making people think, is what I want to do. Whether that is on stage, in front of a camera or teaching.. making people feel something is a gift and not everyone can do it.
The industry today is very different to what it was when I started and so I suppose that I’ve learnt that flexibility, patience and hard work will also take you far.
Thanks to Warren Adams for taking the time to participate in this interview!
