Unique experiences - Actor Video Transcripts
Video 1 Transcript
Two of my favorite things in the world are performing, communicating, speaking, acting. So that's probably four things, but it's meant to be one. And then the second thing is travel. I mean, my family and God and other things have way more meaning than all of those combined. But I mean, just tangible things, tangible intangibles, I guess, travel and acting. And so when I get to combine both of those, it's a hoot. I've shot movies in Europe and over there in Holland, in Albania, in Spain, down in Tahiti, all over the US, different cool locations and places. That's the most fun, is when you get to be on location for a couple of weeks or months and do what you do and get paid for it and enjoy your time.
Video 2 Transcript
Unique experiences. I would say that probably some of the stuff I've seen on set. Well, as far as getting to the film set, I've driven, I've flown from California to LA to West Virginia to North Carolina to Atlanta to Nashville to Knoxville. Super fun. Sometimes by myself, sometimes convoying, sometimes carpooling. And it's just been, for me, I'm shy, but I'm also a people person at the same time. So that's been really exciting, just meeting strange people, but really amazing people that I'll never forget. But then also on this one film set where they brought three cranes in, I'd never seen it before, and these big hoses, and they made it rain on the film set. So I got to see on the camera where it made it look like it rained, but off to the side, it was perfectly dry. So it was really, really cool.
Video 3 Transcript
I had the opportunity to play the lead in a play called Mockingbird. I was in the workshop production and the regional premiere, and it is a play about an 11-year-old autistic girl who is dealing with the aftermath of her brother being killed in a school shooting. So not only is it, you know, heavy material dealing with the school shooting, but there was the added layer of playing an autistic character and wanting to really not disrespect that community and be honest to the struggles and the beauty that comes with being autistic. It was extremely challenging, extremely exhausting, but also so fulfilling when I was able to connect with that character and to bring that beautiful show to the audience and touch their lives and see the ways that it opened their eyes and helped them be more loving and open-minded to those around them.
Video 4 Transcript
Unique experiences are many in this business because the whole profession of acting is unique. It's not a lot of people do it or do it to make a career out of it. But one of the most unique experiences I've had or I'm about to have, I was cast in a movie and fly down to Miami to do a short film for an Emerson College student who lives down there about a grandfather and his grandson of Italian origin and it's all in Italian. So I'm working with a language coach in Argentina through Zoom to learn my lines in Italian. And it's not that hard to say the lines because I have an ear for language, but it's a very lyrical language. Italian language is very, very musical. So I'm trying, I'm working very hard to get that right. And I'm three quarters Italian. My last name's not Italian, but I'm mostly Italian. So I want to do my people proud. So that's probably the most unique experience I've had so far.
Video 5 Transcript
This film that just came out this year in 2021, it's called Witnesses. I played Martin Harris, who is a historical character. It was an amazing experience to take a real character from history and do a lot of research on him and try to understand what made him work. But it all kind of got summed up in this scene where I was supposed to see an angel and all they had was a big bright light. And I had to imagine that I was being moved by seeing an angel. And that was an incredible experience of using my imagination. And one of the crew afterwards, you know, I caught my eye, I kind of wiped tears from my eyes wondering if I had looked stupid. And he kind of pointed at me and went, like I had moved him.
Video 6 Transcript
Every project is unique, but I guess I'll just use the latest one. So just a couple weeks ago, I wrapped up on a really crazy, fun, energetic film set. My character in this particular day was on a dirt bike trying to outrun the cops. I had done some of the work because I'm pretty comfortable on a dirt bike, but the stunt people are doing the big stuff, the stuff that's going to kill you. Well, our stunt guy got caught up at work and he couldn't get there and the lighting was perfect and all the rigs, the camera, everything was ready to go. The director asked me, how comfortable are you? And I said, well, I'll do what I'm comfortable doing. So the next thing I know, there's a truck going 40 miles an hour. I'm right here and the cops are right behind me. And I'm trying to drive as close to the back end of that truck as I can to get the shots that we need. And the whole next three hours as we got these shots, I had three thoughts in my mind. Number one, if that guy hits the brakes, I'm going to die. Number two, everything is so beautiful. Number three.
