![]() I was lucky in that my mother never coddled me from adult concepts as a child, so I enjoyed everything from Rugratsto The Color Purple, to Philadelphia. IV: I was into all types of things growing up. ![]() PEV : An LA Native, a graduate of the California Institute of the Arts and the British American Drama Academy, what kind of movies or TV were you into growing up? Do you remember the first thing you saw that really got you hooked? I didn’t fall into acting, it was all hard work, training, and a lot of patience. So I’ve been at it for a while there wasn’t some magical moment where I was discovered, I wasn’t related to anyone famous or connected and I didn’t come from money, far from it in fact. ![]() My mom’s only college requirement for me was that I went, and I actually remember her telling me “I don’t care what you study, just go to college.” So naturally, I chose acting and spent the next four years training at CalArts, taking extra courses in England and New York. From there I did musicals in high school, splitting time between football practice, which caught me plenty of grief on the field. It was god awful and I didn’t get the part I wanted, but I just remember loving it so much, the stage just felt like where I belonged. I remember it was the year Mulan had come out and for whatever reason, we did a staged version. I caught the acting bug, specifically, from doing a school play in junior high. Ian Verdun (IV): I’ve been an artist for as long as I can remember drawing, dancing, singing, writing you name it and I did it. (PEV): As an actor who has seen every bit of the entertainment world, what drove you to pursue acting from the beginning?
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