Every time Jean Evans sees a new actor in a movie, the first thing she does is pull out her phone and Google how old they are. She started doing this long before she packed up her Toyota Camry and moved from Missouri to Los Angeles five years ago to pursue a career in acting and filmmaking. But lately, something has changed. For a long time, “whenever I’d look up their ages, they were older than me. I’d be 20, they were 23, and I was like, Well, I have three years left to accomplish that. ” Now that she’s 27 and they’re 23, she thinks, Oh, well I have negative four years left.

Evans estimates she auditioned for 200 roles last year and came close to getting life-changing parts in shows and independent features, but never quite landed the part. This fall, Evans was so burnt out by the

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