I may be Jewish, but my religion is hip-hop.
Anytime where you're challenged, physically or mentally, you rise to the occasion in different ways.
I was raised by a single mother.
I love the phrase, 'Somebody's going to have a good day today, so it might as well be me.' I feel like you bring everything to the character, I hope.
I always had a weight issue since I was a young kid.
I had to battle it out with all the usual suspects and whatnot and go to the callback. I was lucky that (writer-director) John (Levine) and I were sort of these two white-boy hip-hop-heads from New York. I think that alone got me in the door.