I think that’s how you found out about us. I had reviewed Mirrored. How did you get involved in that?
I was referred through a casting director. I read the script, and I thought it was interesting. I read the script and I thought it was interesting. I thought it’d be cool to play a part that was a completely different person. It was an impressive production. They built the whole stage and did the entire thing. He’s a good dude. Great guy.
You’re also in a limited series on Amazon Prime Video called Dark/Web.
It’s a digital series and is up for some Daytime Emmy’s. It’s an anthology series… sort of. It includes a series of one-off episodes, connected through a narrative storyline. I’m in the first episode called Rideshare, which exists in the Dark/Web world.
As a working actor at this current stage of your career, can you talk about the tension between being able to choose work for creative pleasure versus choosing work to make a living?
I’ve been making my living for the last seven years. It’s a middle-class actor living, somewhere between fifty and a hundred thousand dollars a year. I do a lot of like one-off guest star spots or recurring on different shows and stuff like that.
I was in Sully, which opened up a lot of doors, and I ended up getting three offers from that before it came out. People had heard that I was in the movie, and there’s that finite amount of time where you’re sort of “valuable” before it dissipates as the movie comes out. Then your kind of back in the same game again. Currently, I’m sort of in this pocket, auditioning for stuff, and hustle to the next thing, I had a lot of fortune, I’m very, very lucky with the projects that I’ve been associated.
I guess the point is you’re amassing a body of work of more prominent roles as opposed to the one or two liners.
Yeah, in terms of the one or two liner stuff, it’s been a couple of years since I’ve done that. So there’s this position in the television world which I’m in – guest star land. It’s been most of that.
“My philosophy is simply to say yes to everything until you can’t…”
I don’t know how many features I’ve done, but a lot of independent films. I’ve been fortunate enough to be high up on the call sheet, you know, one or two. But with indies sometimes it’s tough to get people to see your stuff even with distribution and when you get into good festivals. There’s just so much good stuff out there.
It’s such a lottery because the selection criteria are overly specific or become a matter of what you can bring to the actual character that no one else can.
Yeah. With Dark/Web, I responded instantly to it when I read the script. I could relate deeply to that feeling of a person being controlled by an outside force. There’s someone sinister out there who is manipulating my character outside of his understanding, and outside of his control, but he’s still forced to do these bad things. I responded to that, and I felt like I wanted to express that in story. I could bring a symbiotic sort of energy to the role with my experience.
