You know that feeling where you’re like, “Oh I actually have a natural knack for something.” I have never felt that way except for in that class. I did take a theater class in college because I heard it was an easy A for one of my general requirements. So it never crossed my mind that this was something I could do as a viable career.
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I watched a ton of TV and movies but I didn’t really see anyone who looked like me. Were you someone who grew up watching TV and movies and did school plays? In the midst of that funk and depression, I stumbled upon acting. So I gave it all up, moved back to Los Angeles, and had an existential crisis. But I didn’t have the patience to be assigned these things I was not super passionate about and to work at a job for seven or eight years until hopefully a position opened up where I could pitch my stories. I was doing profiles on the lobster fest in town and the local distillery and that’s great, some people can love that and do it. But lo and behold, I realized I didn’t have the patience for it. I ended up working for a couple magazines after college, thinking that was my path. One of the most profound experiences was working in Cambodia with survivors of the Khmer Rouge genocide and just feeling like my DNA was changing as I listed to these testimonies. I realized the power of the story because I would just sit there in the field and listen to these stories. The idea was they could hopefully get more money for their organization. I loved writing and I ended up going on a bunch of trips with various nonprofit organizations and international development organizations to document the things that were happening and I was experiencing and bring those stories back home.
But then I interned for a few law firms and hated it. I thought I would go into law and the only reason was because I liked making speeches. I studied Law and English and government, which was really political science. You started out in journalism originally, correct? It was the only time I left a set and cried, because I felt so bad it was coming to an end. And I knew leaving the set on that last day that it would be hard to find another experience that would match this because it was so cathartic and beautiful. And it’s hard to believe, this is your first feature film.
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