LJ: One thing Shoshana [Bean] advised me is: “As an actor, you will get to do a variety of roles. Some it’s a must to work actually onerous at, whereas others will come naturally to you.”
This one got here naturally.
I felt like I actually knew Michael. I understood what it felt wish to be an outsider. I understood what it felt like when your loved ones doesn’t get you. I understood desirous to be with anyone who doesn’t need to be with you, however nonetheless preventing for it.
There have been so many issues I related to wholeheartedly. Once I auditioned, I couldn’t assist however really feel all of it. “Belong to Somebody” wrecked me once I first heard it, as a result of I assumed, “I do know precisely who this character is.”
Even rising up as a baby actor, you be taught to placed on this id of a “performer.” With Michael, he’s always reacting to everybody else’s feelings as a substitute of permitting himself to really feel his personal. Then that second comes the place it bubbles up, and also you simply explode. I perceive that every one too nicely.
Once I began studying the script for The Misplaced Boys, I assumed, “I get this. I simply have to determine how to do that eight instances every week.”
