Jul 24, 2026 · 58 min · 11 segments
Blythe (she/her) holds her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Acting from the University of Alberta, but calls Toronto home, where she is an active member of the community. For Gangway she is currently working…
Blythe HaynesGuest
Janet McMordieHost
It's interesting because I would love your take on this because I hear both sides, right? We hear you have to be only an actor and an actor you must only be because you can't put feets in different buckets, right? If you put like one foot in this bucket, the other foot in this bucket and you're trying to spread it, there's too many buckets and you're the stupid.
There's so many analogies I've been given, right? And, you know, like you if you want to be a real actor, you've got to go full in and that's like your only thing.
Then the other flip opposite, which, you know, is like the, you know, TED talk of this entire goddamn podcast is like no false fact, because, you know, one, we can't survive in capitalism, but like so much of excuse me.
So much of what we do in our other survival jobs play into our acting career for good and for bad, yes.
Because so many people I talk to, myself included, really struggle with that.
And then, yeah, you get an audition and you're in box and you immediately go, ugh.
blows
Yeah.
And you're like, oh, fuck.
I think for my money, what I try and remind myself is actually I'm not the problem.
I
think that if you talked to, well, like, like you talk to people all the time, like anyone I talked to, whether you are a doctor or a teacher or a TTC driver, or you work in high finance or whatever, everyone is just barely scraping by.
And I kind of mean that like both financially, but I also mean that, um, honest, like I talk about my soul a lot, but I do think I'm like a soul level, right? You can be, you can be like financially bankrupt and you can also be, you know, like emotionally and spiritually bankrupt as
It's interesting because I would love your take on this because I hear both sides, right? We hear you have to be only an actor and an actor you must only be because you can't put feets in different buckets, right? If you put like one foot in this bucket, the other foot in this bucket and you're trying to spread it, there's too many buckets and you're the stupid.
There's so many analogies I've been given, right? And, you know, like you if you want to be a real actor, you've got to go full in and that's like your only thing.
Then the other flip opposite, which, you know, is like the, you know, TED talk of this entire goddamn podcast is like no false fact, because, you know, one, we can't survive in capitalism, but like so much of excuse me.
So much of what we do in our other survival jobs play into our acting career for good and for bad, yes.
Because so many people I talk to, myself included, really struggle with that.
And then, yeah, you get an audition and you're in box and you immediately go, ugh.
blows
Yeah.
And you're like, oh, fuck.
I think for my money, what I try and remind myself is actually I'm not the problem.
I
think that if you talked to, well, like, like you talk to people all the time, like anyone I talked to, whether you are a doctor or a teacher or a TTC driver, or you work in high finance or whatever, everyone is just barely scraping by.
And I kind of mean that like both financially, but I also mean that, um, honest, like I talk about my soul a lot, but I do think I'm like a soul level, right? You can be, you can be like financially bankrupt and you can also be, you know, like emotionally and spiritually bankrupt as
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