As an actor, you can play different age ranges and different ethnicities.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
As an actor, you get to sort of bounce back and forth in terms of the age range you play and the life experience that your characters have.
As an ambiguously non-white actor, I've been able to play light-skinned African American guys, Latinos, and I don't think that I've ever had to play some kind of ethnic stereotype or something that was typed specifically for a person of color.
I wanted to be cast because I'm an actor and not because of how I look or where I'm from. I'm brown. I want to be able to play a Spanish girl some day or a Mexican girl and learn the language. That's what actors do: we act.
It's like playing tennis, you play a different rally with different people. Every actor is different and the chemistry between actors is different.
As an actor, you need to be versatile. You need to challenge yourself.
Being an actor does make you aware of your age.
Being a film actor is very different from a theatre actor.
The thing with being able to do accents is that it's still completely separate from being an actor.
There are a lot of limitations and stigmas that are placed on young actors, specifically young black actors.
Actors are a race.