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" I actually moved to upstate New York to the country. "
York
New York
New
" I collect hats, and I'm really big into Stetsons. Not particularly the Stetsons brand but that sort of fedora-type. I just think it's sharp. "
Sharp
Brand
Big
" I have this image of myself as kinda like the Energizer Bunny. I get knocked down, and I pop right back up. "
Right
Like
Back Up
" I love hats. I love vests. I do like to look sharp. "
Hats
Sharp
Love
" I'm country to the bone. "
Country
Bone
" I saw an amazing film when I was 16 called 'Slam'. It's about a spoken-word poet. Saul Williams is in it. "
Amazing
Film
Poet
" I sort of tried to get a basketball scholarship out of high school, but that didn't happen. Then I started working for UPS, and that paid for tuition for school. I moved to a bigger town, Louisville. I did it for a year. I had to work the graveyard shift. And then you get off at eight for classes, so that sucked. Then I dropped out. "
School
Basketball
High School
" I spent three months with a physical therapist understanding what a stroke is. I asked, 'What is a stroke?' I didn't really know. It's okay to mimic something, but I really needed to understand the signs. "
Three
Understand
Know
" I think, in any sort of medium, repetition makes you better at your trade. "
Think
You
Trade
" I think Jack White is pretty dope. He's a little bit more crisp than me in his approach; he's always in a suit; he's always sharp. He's always cleaned up. "
Dope
More
Think
" I think Netflix is incredible! I travel a lot, so it keeps me company sometimes. I like 'Peaky Blinders.' I'm a big fan of Cillian Murphy, and he is quite the actor. I watch documentaries, mainly, but I've really gotten into watching scary movies. 'It Follows' is wicked. "
Me
Movies
Sometimes
" It's so funny how it's impossible for an American actor to play an English part or an Australian part. But by all means, come and bastardize our accent as much as you want. "
You
American
Funny
" It's taken me a long time to get work, so that's why I like to play really different characters that are really foreign to me. I want it to be something great, and I want to have a great experience. "
Great
Work
Experience
" I unloaded planes for UPS in Louisville, Kentucky. It only was bad because it was called 'Earn to Learn,' where you pay for your tuition for college, but you have to work graveyard shift - midnight to eight A.M. - and then go to school at nine or 10 A.M. I was a zombie after two semesters. "
College
Learn
School
" I wanted to be an architect. I used to draw houses and buildings and construct buildings on my own. "
Buildings
Own
My Own
" I was working in Lexington when I recognized this actor, Michael Shannon, and I was like, 'What do you do?' He told me to get into a theater company, so I got into a theater company near my hometown. I was a carpenter there. And then I slowly got some work. "
You
Actor
Hometown
" I wrote a lot. I was in programs for drawing when I was a kid. "
Lot
Kid
Drawing
" Most difficult is the labeling by other people that models are empty-headed bodies. I think if you look for negativity, you can find it anywhere. "
Negativity
People
Think
" Netflix is in every country except China and North Korea. "
Country
China
North Korea
" Sean Penn, for his acting as well as his writing and directing. There are so many actors I respect, but his reach is so wide. "
Well
Acting
Writing
" Skinny jeans and an extra big t-shirt. Ugh, I cannot stand that. It looks like an idiot: it's just proportionately wrong. And the super, super, super, super, super, super, super skinny jeans. I don't think you can get anything done when you're wearing clothes that tight. "
Stand
Think
You
" There are all kinds of directors I want to work with and all kinds of films that I want to do. "
Want
Work
Kinds
" There was no theater in my high school. I think even our art program was cut - it was so bad. I didn't even know that was a possibility in college or in high school; I hadn't even thought of it. It was pretty negligent. My father has run a bulldozer all of his life, and my mom is in real estate. "
College
Art
Father
" When I got into high school, I got really into basketball. I had this itch that I wanted to just move. I didn't know what I wanted to do, but I knew that if basketball became a scholarship or something, it would be a means to that. It turned out I couldn't jump that high. "
School
Basketball
Know
" With 'Little Accidents', I spent probably three months working with a physical therapist, just understanding, starting from square one, about the neurological makeup of what happens when you have a stroke or what carbon monoxide poisoning does to your body. "
You
Body
Makeup
" You don't really have to dress a ton of actors. You don't really have to spend a bunch of money lining up extras to look the time period. "
Time
Look
Dress
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