Actor Growth

As a teenager I always thought I would go into something tech oriented and I was a fairly quiet person. During high school though, for one reason or another the school’s theatre program instructor really pushed me to take the theatre acting program. I personally thought he was crazy too considering I always got nervous whenever trying to speak to a large group of people.

I then learned later on that a big reason for wanting me to go into the program was that the instructor wanted to break a stereotype that Asians were too quiet and could not succeed in the program. As a point of note the school, Templeton Secondary, had one of the best theatre programs in all of BC with an ample amount of awards and recognition to back it up.

Long story short, I eventually did decide to dedicate myself to the program throughout my high school life and accomplished a lot including winning recognitions in provincial competitions. It really did change me a lot as well for the better such as giving me the confidence to do public speaking with ease.

After graduation though, the tech side in me still wanted to explore other things such as the growth of the Internet and that led me into a direction away from acting. A few years later, I seemed to have done what I wanted to do to satisfy the tech side in me and I started to wonder where if I pursued acting immediately instead how would it have turned out? At the same time, I really enjoyed film as it is one of those things where you create once and it can stay alive for ages.

As a result, I decided I wanted to get back into acting. At first I took an intensive acting workshop from Studio 58 since my training has primarily been in theatre. Eventually, I decided that I needed to learn about film acting specifically and so I enrolled into a full time film acting program at Capilano college. After completing the program, I was ready to start my journey in trying to make a career as an actor. However, something came up shortly after, which I can probably write a script for one day, as it involves a lot of things that halted my ambition.

Despite these setbacks, just a few months ago I decided to go ahead anyways with my ambition as the longer I wait the more time I am wasting I’d say. As of now, I am doing gigs on short independent films as well as extra work for various productions.

I am still young with a youthful look, so let’s see where this journey takes me. Fortunately with my tech background, running this blog is easy for me and maybe I’ll get to meet some great people along the way.