For Some Reason Deborah Ann Woll Hasn't Landed an Acting Gig Since DAREDEVIL and She's Struggling with Self-Doubt
When you see a talented actress like Deborah Ann Woll unable to find acting work, you can’t help but wonder what in the hell is wrong with Hollywood. The actress you know from True Blood and Daredevil hasn’t been able to land an acting gig since the latter series where she played Karen Page.
As you might expect she’s struggling, mostly with her self worth. She recently opened up about the lack of acting work she’s had since completing the third and final season of Daredevil while a guest on Marvel Creative Director Joe Quesada’s Joe Q's Mornin' Warm Up. She gets pretty candid with her feelings.
"I'm just really wondering whether I'll get to work again, whether anyone wants to work with me again, and whether I still have it, all of those scary things. And part of my brain goes, 'No, you're just being crazy, calm down.' But the part of me that loves [acting] and the problem with being an artist and an actor, and any of these professions where you put a piece of your soul into your work, is that it becomes a part of your identity.
"If I'm not acting, I'm not sure who I am. And since it's been so long since I've really gotten to do it, I'm struggling a little bit with how to maintain my self worth, my sense of my own value."
She went to say that she was debating on whether or not she should revisit her past works during her time of self-doubt, and when she talked to her husband about that and he suggested that she shouldn’t:
"I was like, 'I'm trying to find a way right now, particularly where I can't even look for work, what can I do to help me remember that I do know what I'm doing and that I can do this and that I do have value?’ I said, 'Well, should I maybe go back and watch some of my earlier work?' Maybe now it would be safe and it would be a way for me to say, ‘Look, I did do a great job, that was a great moment.’ Or is that opening up Pandora’s Box when I'm most vulnerable? And he suggested that I don't do it [laughs]."
She goes on to say:
“I haven't had an acting job since, and that's been really hard for me. So even before COVID kind of flipped the world on its head, I was struggling with this.
"And I think I was already in an uncertain place, and to add this other layer of uncertainty ... it's just compounding a little bit. And I have to figure out how I stay confident in myself, even when everyone else is telling me, 'Hey, we don't want to work with you right now,' or 'You're not our choice for this.'"
I can understand what she’s going through. There was a time in my life when I couldn’t find work for a long time. It was frustrating as hell, and I was down in the dumps feeling super low and depressed. It was during that time though when I took matters into my own hands and started put all of my focus on attention into building GeekTyrant.
So, if I were to offer some advice to Woll, take matters into your own hands. Start creating your own projects! You have a large fanbase that will follow you and support you in that. You can tell your own stories and create the characters you want to play!