I did 'Spanglish' and went back home, and the next thing I did was my high school play. My agents at the time were like, 'Uh. What?'
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I was in a lot of school plays, and it became the thing I did.
I did a play called 'On Golden Pond' in a dinner theater in Maine and then went to New York for a talent competition having put together a three-man juggling routine and some one-liners and I got myself an agent from that.
I got in touch with my agent and told him I wanted to start going out on things again.
An agent saw one of the plays I did at ACT, but my mom was like, No, she's too young. I became so annoying that a year and a half later she just couldn't stand hearing me any more!
I met my agent when I was 10 years old on a family skiing vacation. He asked if I was interested in acting, and I had been doing school plays. A couple of years later, I called him up, and I started auditioning.
Sometimes I was in school plays, but only when the kid they'd originally picked got sick and they asked me to substitute.
I have said to my agents, 'I want to work. I want to play character roles.'
I went to find myself and save myself by being an agent.
While I was in high school, I started working professionally and got an agent.
I convinced my parents to let me see an agent, but because I had been taught never to speak to strangers, I was so quiet during the interview, they said to bring me back when I was older.