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" If someone offers me a hot plate of Penne Arrabiata, fageddaboutit. "
Ross Butler
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" 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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Basketball
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" 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
" I like to say I was a creature in high school. A weird creature who had my hands in a lot of different things. "
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High School
Hands
Say
" I have a lot of random hobbies. "
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Hobbies
Lot
Random
" Zendaya is really chill and cool. "
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Cool
Chill
Really
" I'm actually a really big board game and video game nerd. "
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Game
Really
Nerd
" 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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Character
" 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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Feel
Share
Take
" Everybody's gone through high school; everybody understands that dynamic. Some people have a great time, and some people don't have a great time. My high school experience was not the greatest. I wasn't necessarily bullied, but I was one of those guys that just goes along, and I didn't really feel connected to many of the social cliques. "
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School
Experience
Great
" I'm not that much of a singer. "
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Singer
Much
" 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
" As a community, we're fighting for Asians to play Asian roles. And then there's the other battle, which is Asian Americans playing roles that aren't written for Asians, and I think that's something that completely should happen; Why can't an Asian American male just play a leading cop figure... or the Matt Damon roles? "
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Think
American
Fighting
" 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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American
White
Opportunity
" There's so many Chinese or Asian Americans that were either born in another country like I was and raised in America or born in America and raised in America. They're normal Americans, and they just happen to have a different heritage. "
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America
Born
Country
" My full name is Ross Fleming Butler; it's very British-Irish. "
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Full
Name
Very
" Weirdly enough - if I make enough money one day - I want to open a board game bar. "
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Game
Want
Enough
" I told my team, 'I don't want to go out for Asian roles anymore.' "
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Team
Anymore
Asian
" I'm allergic to cats, so I'm psychologically wired to associating kittens with itchy eyes and popping Claritin. "
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Cats
Allergic
Eyes
" I've played a jock a lot, but pretty nuanced jocks. "
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Lot
Played
Pretty
" I'm trying to bring social games into the zeitgeist. "
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Bring
Zeitgeist
Trying
" 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
" 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 like something with a really great storyline, characters, and concept. I like doing things that are new and cutting edge. "
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Things
New
Doing
" 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
" 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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Say
Hard
Real
" When I was growing up, my mom didn't let me watch a lot of TV. She said I couldn't watch 'Friends' or that era of sitcoms. "
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Friends
She
Me
" Growing up, my favorite movies were 'Forrest Gump,' 'Shawshank Redemption,' 'Gladiator' - none of them really had Asian leading men. "
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Growing Up
Growing
Up
" 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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Friends
Look
Back
" 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
" When I was younger, I had no idea that I would be an actor. I had an interest in it, but I never actually did it. I didn't really expect it to be a career path. "
Ross Butler
Never
Path
Actor