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My Dad Died When I Was A Kid, So I Think It Became A Place For Me To Go Where My Mom Knew That I Was Safe And Taken Care Of And Looked After.

Honestly, People Told Me To. It Was Weird, I Graduated From School, I Never Thought I'd Live In L.a. And I Always Wanted To Be To New York. I Assumed That Would Be My Trajectory - That Romantic Ideal Of Moving There And Doing Plays Off-broadway And Being Scrappy About It. Then We Did A Showcase In New York And A Showcase In L.a., And For Whatever Reason The Response That I Generated In L.a. Was Significantly More Enthusiastic.

I Think The Goal Is Always To Go Deeper Within Myself, And Accept Myself On Deeper Levels And To Know Myself On Deeper Levels. Whether Or Not I Look For Roles That Are Going To Do That For Me, I Certainly Look For The Ways In Which The Roles I Get Can Do That For Me.

I Think It's Always Good When You're Able To, As An Actor, Allow Your Work To Be Some Kind Of A Conduit For Social Discourse, And An Examination Of Where We Are, As A Society.

I Went Away To This Summer Program After My Junior Year Of High School. They Used To Have This Thing Called The Governor's School, And They Had It For Different Disciplines - Science, Math, Performing Arts. I Auditioned And I Got Accepted, And It Was An Eight-week Program Away From Home. I Went For Acting. I Was 15, And I Turned 16 While I Was There, So That Was A Seminal Moment For Me. It Made Me Realize The Life Of It, The Discipline Of It, And The Joy Of That Discipline, Where It Was All We Did.