Rahyan Carlos on training and producing 'empowered' actors

"At the moment, it's really starting, it's really pioneering," said Rahyan about the artists agency and its talents in a recent virtual interview with The STAR.

- By JERRY DONATO

As head of training and development of MQuest Artists Agency (MQAA), director Rahyan Carlos is in a quest, as a manner of speaking, to teach newbie talents about the rudiments of acting and retool and further mentor established ones in their forthcoming and recent projects.

"We have, I think, something like 30 talents, and out of the 30 talents, I already trained 15 of them, half of them, intensively."

The director-scriptwriter-and-academic assumed the position in September of this year and made a thorough assessment of MQAA artists.

"But the most important thing for me is the discipline, the ethics," added he.

The training Rahyan provides is patterned after the Chubbuck Studio in Hollywood, Melrose Avenue, wherein he studied under the Hollywood acting coach Ivana Chubbuck.

"There are levels. I have an introductory level, advanced level 1, advanced level 2, and the masterclass. You need to earn your way up there," said he. "For the entire batch, I will assess you, it's either you will level up or you will be retained."

Rahyan, the teacher doesn't give remarks such as "naka-pasa" (pass) or "bagsak" (fail) and he looks at the progress of every student in a wholistic way.