Do you remember the first time you decided you wanted to be an actor? Right, I don’t either—but I know I was very young. There’s something about youth, something innocent, unburdening, pure, almost as if children come into this world with valuable insight on what it means to be a truly free being. Almost as if they came here to teach us something. Now, do you remember the first time someone told you that choosing to be an actor wasn’t smart because it wasn’t financially secure or “safe”? Yup, I do, too.
That’s when the fear sets in. Fear is the antitheses of innocence, the killer of youth and your free being. From that moment on, you begin to lose sight of why you chose to be an actor in the first place; you become obsessed with the idea of becoming an actor even more because now you have something to prove. A fear storm of multiple negative voices has found its way inside of you, taunting your inner child, knocking you around with the fact that you might not be able to become the very thing you want to be.
And so you train—hard. You go to grad school, even though your family looks at you like you were crazy, asking, “Who goes to grad school for three years to study
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