Acting school was summer camp, and I needed concentration camp. I had so many different ideas swirling between culture and how to tie things together.

Acting school was summer camp, and I needed concentration camp. I had so many different ideas swirling between culture and how to tie things together.

I think that I have sold out sometimes.

My first acting job happened by accident when I was really young. I was in fifth grade and my teacher saw an ad in the paper and took me to the audition after school and I got the part.

Part of the work is determining through what instrument you are playing. Actors are physical, olympian storytellers and we should be able to create entire landscapes with nothing.

Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well.

I had been working early in my life in films - since I was 11.