I've Been Spared To A Large Extent

I Worked With The Same Trainer That Worked With Denzel Washington In The Hurricane. It Was Three Months Of Training, Five Days A Week, 4 To 5 Hours A Day. This Was Followed By A Month Of Choreography.

A Ghostly Side Note Soldier Boy Miller Played A Lucifer-like Character In The Final Two Episodes Of Joan Of Arcadia. Coincidence I Do Find It Strangely Poetic, ... That A Character Who Shows Up On A Show About God To Play Something Kind Of Satanic Winds Up In The Very Last Two Episodes Of That Show, And Then Appears In The Show That Replaces That Show On Its Exact Time And Night The Following Season.

It Was Just Expected That I Would Go To College. Both My Parents Are Teachers And They Tolerated Acting, But I Was Going To Go To A School Of Quality Or Bust. Which Made My Downshifting Back To Acting Afterward A Little Difficult.

My Experience Is That I Find Myself Having To Constantly Define Myself To Others, Day-in, Day-out. The Quote That's Helped Me The Most Through That Is From Toni Morrison's "beloved" Where She Says, "definitions Belong To The Definers, Not The Defined" - So I Find Myself Defining Myself For Other People Lest I Be Defined By Others And Stuck Into Some Box Where I Don't Particularly Belong.

I Had A Brief Experience In The Food Industry. I Was A Bus Boy In A Mexican Restaurant In Arizona, Scraping Re-fried Beans Off People's Plates. It Teaches You A Bit Of Humility And The Importance Of A Good Deodorant.