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" I like to say I was a creature in high school. A weird creature who had my hands in a lot of different things. "
Ross Butler
High School
Hands
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" Weirdly enough - if I make enough money one day - I want to open a board game bar. "
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" I'm not the Asian kid of 'Riverdale;' I'm Reggie, and I just happen to be Chinese. "
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" If everything could be like 'Forrest Gump,' I'd be happy. "
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" Joseph Gordon-Levitt's career is kind of how I want to create my career. He's very involved with his recording and production company and also worked on some really great projects. "
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" If I didn't mind having a quarter of my car payment going towards a gym membership, I'd definitely go to Equinox. "
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" I'm allergic to cats, so I'm psychologically wired to associating kittens with itchy eyes and popping Claritin. "
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" My full name is Ross Fleming Butler; it's very British-Irish. "
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" Eventually we got to a point where 'Riverdale' came along, and it was a character that was originally written white, and I saw this as an opportunity to take a classic American character and make them Asian. "
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" I told my team, 'I don't want to go out for Asian roles anymore.' "
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Team
Anymore
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" I had a lot of friends, but none of them I felt super close with. Now that I'm older, I can look back on my teenage self and kind of see the things I did wrong and the things I did right, what affect they had on me, and what affect they had on other people. I can look at it in a much more conducive way to storytelling. "
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Back
" As actors, we have to take characters, and we have to feel for them and ultimately become them, and share that on screen so that audience feels that. "
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" Honestly, I love Ruth's Chris. "
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Love
Ruth
I Love
" Zendaya is really chill and cool. "
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Chill
Really
" I have a lot of random hobbies. "
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Hobbies
Lot
Random
" I've played a jock a lot, but pretty nuanced jocks. "
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" I don't want to be super aggressive, but I think it's an issue that the population of America isn't reflected accurately in a lot of movies. I'm just disappointed that there isn't an Asian leading man or an Asian leading woman. There's an obvious gap that should be filled. "
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Woman
America
Movies
" I wasn't bullied or anything, but I didn't really fit in. "
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Really
Fit
Bullied
" I will say that 'Riverdale,' yes, is a little more sensationalized. It's based on comics, and it is a little bit more dramatic and a little bit more made for TV, made for teens. For '13 Reasons,' we tried hard to make it as real as we could, as close to reality as possible. No corners were cut; everything was very raw and very real. "
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" Tom Hanks, Brad Pitt, Al Pacino, Russell Crowe - these leading men. These are the ones I grew up with. And Hugh Jackman. I love everything that these guys are doing. It's kind of been my mission to be an Asian-American version of that. "
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Kind
Men
Mission
" I've played lacrosse players, football players, basketball players. I think that's just because of how I'm built. I look young, and I'm also a big person. "
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Young
Basketball
Football
" I don't think I have any guilt or embarrassment about any of the TV shows I watch. Maybe the fact that the shows I can watch over and over again are cartoons like 'Bob's Burgers' and 'American Dad' and 'Rick & Morty.' "
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Guilt
I Can
American
" With social games, I bring my friends, and maybe they'll bring a friend or two, and when you're playing a game, you don't need to focus on trying to come up with things to talk about. "
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Focus
Friend
Friends
" When I started acting, one of the first things I learned was - especially in Hollywood - was branding. I'm a tall guy. I'm like, 'Yeah, that's probably going to be my foot in the door,' because that's my impression on everybody. I'm an athletic guy, and I think, because I grew up disliking jocks so much, that became, like, the character for me. "
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Tall
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" All of our actions have consequences whether we know it or not. We never know what people are going through until something tragic happens - if they don't talk about it. "
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People
Consequences
Never
" I'm actually a really big board game and video game nerd. "
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Really
Nerd
" There are no Asian leading men in Hollywood. There's not an Asian Ryan Gosling or an Asian Brad Pitt. "
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Men
Ryan
Asian
" People in high school either feel like they're with the cool kids in a clique, or they're isolated - there's no in-between. "
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School
People
High School
" I know I play a lot of jocks, but I'm actually a really big board game and video game nerd. It's one of the most interesting fields of entertainment because you get to create your own role and create your own rules. Some people get so creative with it, and I'm also super competitive. I'm a really big nerd. "
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Interesting
People
Creative
" My acting technique is a combination of a lot of different ones. A lot of it is Meisner. "
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Lot
Technique
Different