Just remember, this is just an Actor. Most Actors are ego-driven, and not always the brightest sparks - if they were.. they'd be 'Writers'.
So always keep in mind, this is just a person who's for what ever reason, managed to be lucky enough to get to be on camera.
They generally aren't geniuses, or major creative experts on all things literary or artistic.
They're 'actors'. They - for whatever reason - have the need and urge, to be looked at.
Either on stage, or in front of a camera.
They're often only as good as the words that some Writer has written for them.
So they're nothing to be scared of.
If anything, I enjoy meeting actors, because I understand that its my words that can make THEM look and sound good - which is primarily all that they're interested in.
If you're a Writer, you've chosen to do this role, of being 'behind the scenes' - so with all of the angst you seem to be doing - try keep in mind you aren't meeting literary geniuses, or deep intellectual people whose thoughts and words will go down in history for their quality of thought, intelligence or meaning
As a writer, you're the one who's creating the stuff, to make the pretty faces on-camera seem 'full of depth'.
The good actors know it, and operate accordingly - the bad actors on the other hand, can fancy themselves as 'writers'
- and that often ends pretty badly, with some dire garbage being created, funded purely on the box office value of
an actors name..
Point being - lose your fear, and get a sense of your inherent usefulness to an actor..
actors without writers are nothing. (as the recent strike demonstrated completely)
Writers without actors, however - are writers
