My mom always liked the idea of us acting - me and my sister - like, one of us trying it. But my dad always thought it was a joke.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Acting has never been a thing that me and my dad have talked about. It's like footballers: when they get together, I bet the last thing they talk about is football.
Well, acting was just in me and I tried to avoid it. I didn't want to do what my parents did, you know?
I've always wanted to act and I grew up a little on film sets when my dad was working as an actor.
My parents know how passionate I've always been about acting. I convinced them this was something that I was going to put my heart and soul into.
It's nice to have my mother as someone I can talk to about acting. My dad's a director, so when he comes to watch me on set, he think it's his set. He's always telling a production assistant, 'Can you get me five donuts?'
My mom kind of led me toward acting. She wanted to be an actress when she was younger. That made me interested in it when I was a kid, because she and I are very close.
My parents met because my father was an actor friend of one of my mom's brothers, but my mother has never set foot on the stage - she's quite shy. So it's a strange thing because people say, 'Oh, coming from acting parents,' when the idea of acting would literally make my mother just want to throw up.
My parents made certain I had no illusions about acting. To them, it was always just a job.
My mom didn't ever think I would take to acting because I was a very shy, very reserved kind of child. But obviously, something changed!
Well, Mom and Dad are both actors, and I've spent a lot of time watching my mom on stage and a lot of time on set with my dad, so it was very much a part of my growing up.