"After doing the first couple scenes and I got used to being in front of a few people it got easier and easier. In Chasing Amy, I wasn't nervous at all. And in Dogma, the same"
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The intent is modest: to frame confidence not as an innate trait but as exposure therapy. Yet the subtext nods to a specific cultural moment: Kevin Smith’s 90s-to-early-2000s mini-empire, where indie filmmaking blurred into a kind of extended friend group. “In front of a few people” quietly punctures the red-carpet fantasy. Early on, the audience is small, the set is intimate, and the stakes are personal. Mewes is effectively saying he learned acting the way you learn anything when the room isn’t enormous: by repetition, by surviving the first embarrassment.
Name-checking Chasing Amy and Dogma isn’t just a resume flex; it’s a progress report. Those films carried bigger themes and bigger scrutiny, yet he claims zero nerves. That contrast works because it reverses the expected narrative. You’d assume the controversial, high-profile projects would spike anxiety. Instead, Mewes positions professionalism as a kind of quiet desensitization: once the camera stops feeling like judgment, it becomes just another person in the room.
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Mewes, Jason. (2026, January 17). After doing the first couple scenes and I got used to being in front of a few people it got easier and easier. In Chasing Amy, I wasn't nervous at all. And in Dogma, the same. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/after-doing-the-first-couple-scenes-and-i-got-65823/
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Mewes, Jason. "After doing the first couple scenes and I got used to being in front of a few people it got easier and easier. In Chasing Amy, I wasn't nervous at all. And in Dogma, the same." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/after-doing-the-first-couple-scenes-and-i-got-65823/.
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"After doing the first couple scenes and I got used to being in front of a few people it got easier and easier. In Chasing Amy, I wasn't nervous at all. And in Dogma, the same." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/after-doing-the-first-couple-scenes-and-i-got-65823/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.





