I was 17 my parents were like you gotta
go to college and so I got a job
enrolled in college I was enrolled in it
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I'd say the word that I would use to
describe what's been happening in my
life in the past like five months is
like increase of opportunity across
different levels whether it's working as
an actor whether it's helping other
people whether it's just meeting new
people you know they're just grand
they're opportunity everywhere now these
days I'm looking for the roles that I
connect it like stories that that I want
to tell stories that hopefully spark a
little bit of awareness and people I
think we like live most of our
day-to-day life like autonomously just
unconscious and psycho
let's like try to currently I'm like way
more looking at the director than I ever
have before if it's a good script a
director can make an incredible film and
incident if it's an incredible scripting
a director can make it superb film and
if it's a not so good script the
directors probably not gonna do the film
so if you find a great director you can
really find great work and then after
that then you're like oh what's the
character and break it down for the
audition process is so fun auditions
just allow you to go into a room and
erupt and then that's all there is and
leave and it's a quite a catharsis for
me it's like the equivalent of a
one-night stand it's the terrible
comparison because one-night stands like
suck like when have you ever had an
amazing oh my god that was you know it
rarely happens I mean I I'd have no idea
what I'm talking about and then the TV
shows like the long-term commitment got
it right it's a premiere relationship
and then a film is like a summer fling
that's why I like films I like I like I
like I like doing films more than
auditioning I would say but like the
process part I love audition I'm a
summer fling guy you have to get
comfortable rejection you have to have
auditions for thousands of things and
people only know of like four of them
it's different when I walk into a room
and
and people know who I am
it's a watched life and which is kind of
cool keys meditation is also like
turning into the watcher you know the
observer not the experience or so it is
kind of in a practice to be able to
constantly be mindful of yourself for
those very reasons and it that's kind of
how I traversed it is being like alright
we'll just apply it for your practice
the ones who usually fail or the ones
who give up it's a waiting game you know
I've been doing it for 14 years
in the past five months so thirteen and
a half years of my life were spent
dedicating to something in the last five
months I'm not gonna I'm not gonna save
the followers and the in the fame of the
notoriety is his milestone of my success
and how good of an actor I am but if a
lot of people are acting to be seen in
that light and like it takes time you
know for sure I was seventeen finished
high school and an independent studies
program my parents were like you gotta
go to college
I like nah he's like if I go to college
I might be able to dedicate all my time
to acting and they're like what he got a
good college and get a job and so I got
a job enrolled in college but I was I
was like bagging them I was like please
like just give me just summer just give
me this summer I went the really dark
patch because I wasn't actually allowed
to work I was contractually obligated to
to to be on hold for a certain amount of
months and that sucked miserably and
when you take away a person's ability to
like act on their purpose they kind of
deteriorate I think so that's what
happened and I was like maybe I should
just not act maybe I should go to a
third world country and like you know do
something kind of actual worth and then
I came full circle and realize
if I act if I really do this damn thing
and I can leverage the platform and then
still do good work the bounce-back was
realizing that and saying I want to help
other people be and be happy her so now
I had something a lot stronger I wasn't
just trying to be an actor I was trying
to create a platform for the betterment
of society and as soon as that clicked I
got the Fosters then I got taller boys
and Sierra Burgess and tagged in here
where I'm taking steps and there's a lot
of good [ __ ] in the work for 2019 I am
incredibly fortunate privileged I'd say
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