How to Start Your Day Off Right as an Actor on Filming Days: A Morning Routine

Get ready with me for my latest shoot in Kentucky!


Call time: 10 AM

Location: Determined last night and entered into the Waze app to help me choose the best time to leave.

Wake-up time: 6:45 AM

Location: Hotel in Cincinnati, about an hour away from the set.

Morning routine:

  1. Shower

  2. Choose an outfit from the items I brought from home (based on what best fits me and the character)

  3. Do my own hair and makeup (takes about 15 minutes). Try to recreate how I looked in my audition makeup-wise.

Tip: If you have to arrive camera-ready, be sure to use a high-definition foundation. I'll share my favorite brand in another post!

Breakfast:

  • A big bowl of oatmeal

  • A banana

  • Scrambled eggs

  • Strawberry yogurt

  • Apple juice

  • Matcha green tea for the road

Side note: You should have seen the looks I got in the dining hall!

  • Brush my teeth and apply lipstick

Checkout:

  • Clean up my hotel room and check out

Drive to set:

  • Listen to my uplifting Spotify playlist to calm my nerves. I'm so excited!

And there you have it! Easy peasy lemon squeezy.


Have a different routine that you follow? Share it below.


Bridge across the Ohio River from Newport, KY to Cincinnati, OH