About Kevin E. West
Affectionately Called The Hollywood Redneck Smoking while DEAD with One Arm in C.S.I. Perhaps the ONLY Villain never killed on 24 Kevin E. West is both a Hollywood veteran television actor and a bad-ass Keynote speaker with over 65 plus credits including Guest Stars on Hawaii 5-0, Criminal Minds, Aquarius, Bones, Castle, Touch, CSI: Miami, Justified, Leverage, […]
Acting Philosophy – Part 2
Continuing Education Let’s finish a few thoughts… Dating! You sometimes cannot put in a book certain things that are just part of being human. Line up all the contestants from The Bachelorette or The Bachelor, and though you might find several people physically attractive; if you were to go out with them a couple of times, very […]
Acting Philosophy – Part 1
Knowledge is King! Indeed. The most important thing in any actor’s pursuit of work is… EDUCATION! This blog, at first, might not have something relevant for your current (read: TODAY) acting pursuit. Never fear. I have a surplus of digital content that will be added here over the next several months. Fingers crossed, there will […]
Welcome to Actor Business – The Business of Show Business
The “Business” of Show Business Let me get to it. I started my professional acting career in 1988. There are aspects of my actor life that pre-date that, but that year is when I moved to Los Angeles to continue my actor pursuit — for money. You read that right. For money. Make no […]
The actors strike, an existential battle!
When the request to be, interviewed by the Pop Culture podcast, was presented to me we were only about a week into the strike. Now, if you do not live in Los Angeles, then please know it was an extremely HOT period of time. Yes, there was a chant rippling across America due to all of the strike actions occurring calling it the, #HotLaborSummer. Yes, indeed it was, but what it really was…was just DAMN hot outside. In just that short amount of time, we already had instances of picketing union members and Strike/Gate captains passing out.
In The Moment – Anthony Meindl Podcast
Hollywood tends to be viewed as the land of the young and pretty. Funny, how the idea of being talented is used a lot when and agent or casting director is not interested in you but “young and pretty” is what’s so often the focus early on. Unfortunately, in many ways, the old cliché, “Youth is wasted on the young”, reared its ugly head a lot during the 2023 SAG-AFTRA TV/Theatrical contract negotiations. The small shock of it for me, when you juxtaposed youth with this negotiation we’re currently in, was how odd and terrifying A.I. was viewed.
Actors & writers take on powerful Hollywood execs & studios!
Take a moment, step back regardless of age, and think about all of the truly “big decisions” you’ve had to make to this point in your life. More often than not, depending on your age, most folks land between 5-10 decisions. Ironically, what I’ve found in my life, is that I tended to think decisions were larger than they really were when I was younger. That’s honestly not as a cheap shot if you’re under 30, it’s merely meant to remind us all that the less amount of life you’ve lived, the more many big decisions have simply yet to infringe upon your path.
November 6, 2018
In 2018, as a core member of the grassroots group @UnionWorking, Kevin assisted with an important Celebrity campaign to assist the SAG-AFTRA commercial negotiations. Allison Janney was one of our many celebrities and she was just a gem to be around!