Actor Growth

Recently I was talking to an older gentlemen who happened to be an actor and I was telling him where I received my training and all as I thought he could give me some advice since he was experienced in the field.  My very first acting training was from high school and the theatre program was run by a gentleman named Jim Crescenzo at Templeton Secondary.

When I mentioned his name, the person immediately knew who he was and mentioned that he saw him all the time at auditions that he was in as well.  I was a little dumbfounded by that response as I remembered that during classes Crescenzo would often tell us that he gave up his attempt to work full time in the film industry as an actor as he really wanted to teach and inspire kids to be their best which personally made me respect him more and work harder.

I distinctively remember that there was also a news report about it as well where the media actually came into one of our classes and interviewed some of us to talk about the theatre Temp program and his dedication to the students.

So what I did was that I went to the IMDB site and found this listing for a James Crescenzo.  It looks like the same person too based on the bio I read on the site.  Afterwards, I looked at his filmography and sure enough it looks like he has done a lot of roles well throughout the time I was attending that school and beyond.

That was just so weird I thought…..I feel so deceived now…….kidding of course.  I learned a lot from the program and was glad to be one of the first Asians to really push the envelope.  He definitely didn’t take it easy on me either as he had one heck of an expectation from me.  Wouldn’t that be funny if I actually bumped into him one day on a set.