Hey I Saw Your Commercial review: Fake Talent Agencies, Scam Acting Classes 1

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I responded to an ad on Backstage for Rose Talent seeking Commercial Actors.

I was called in for an audtion at Space Station Casting. Soon after I was emailed by Kelley Wallce stating that she was considering me for her agency and she wanted me to take a commercial class to brush up on my audition technique before coming back in for a callback.

She recommended 5 classes. The first was in bold and was Hey I saw Your Commercial by Mike Pointer.

I decided to sign up because I had never taken a commercial class and have been taking a lot of new classes recently.

During Mike Pointers classes he doesn't teach much. He spends most of the class trying to sell you DVDs, books, ad copy, or get you to sign up for his next level. He is a self help coach on the side and prints all his own material. It's all very smoke and mirrors feeling.

After I had taken 2 classes I reached out to the agent. She said there was a problem with the studio and she wanted me to self tape my callback. I sent it in.

SHe suddenly emails me back and says that she is being told her Rose Talent name is too close to Rose Talent Management and she has to close her agency and refer me to her "sister agency" Thrive Artists, run by someone named Julie Warner. I emailed Julie Warner and got no response and Kelley disappeared.

Thrive Artists website is suspicously similar to Rose Talent in their design and content.

I searched for Rose Talent Management and could not find them ANYWHERE.

I contacted the first actress on Rose Talent's web roster and she claiimed that she had NO IDEA who Rose Talent or Kelley Wallace was and that she was NOT affiliated with them. She said the headshot they were using was FOUR YEARS OLD and she hadn't used it ever since.

I mentioned Mike Pointer and she said OH MY GOD, I TOOK MIKE POINTERS CLASS FOUR YEARS AGO WITH THAT HEADSHOT, ONLY TIME I USED IT.

This to me is proof enough that Mike Pointer creates fake talent agencies and lures actors into his classes and then dumps the fake agency pulling the rug out from under the actor.

This has been reported to SAG-AFTRA and the LA Consumers Complaints Department.

You be the judge.