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The Hollywood Reporter's NextGen Class of 2025 stars Chase Sui Wonders, Havana Rose Liu, Esther McGregor, Erin Kellyman, Tyriq Withers, Archie Madekwe, Tom Blyth and Isabel May reveal what they'd be doing if they weren't acting, the fictional characters they relate to the most, what they're really listening to in their AirPods on set and much more.

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00:00I think I would maybe be a, well, I'd be a bang.

00:07If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a teacher, because I think I remember those specific teachers

00:30that were paramount in changing my trajectory.

00:32I've always kind of held this feeling that I think I'd be a zoologist or like a safari

00:38park ranger.

00:40If I wasn't an actor, I would study epigenetics or something of that nature.

00:45I always thought I'd be a really good A&R in music.

00:48I don't know, I was just today saying maybe I would want to be a doula.

00:52Or maybe a teacher.

00:54Both my parents are very achievement focused, so if I wasn't an actor, I had like these delusions

01:01of grandeur, that I would be like a woman of business.

01:04I'd love to be a chef.

01:06I really like cooking.

01:08If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a mess.

01:11I, thank God this worked out.

01:13Fictional character I identify with the most, finding Nemo.

01:24So Nemo, you know, I think that story is a beautiful one where, you know, you get lost

01:31and I feel like as a little fish in a big sea, I'm lost and trying to find my way back

01:36home.

01:37You got to get creative.

01:38You got to find your way to success.

01:39Oh my God, it's poetry.

01:41Think about it.

01:42Do you guys have the wild Thornburys here?

01:44Yeah.

01:45Remember the little, the little kid in it?

01:47Was it Donny, Donny, uh, Donny Thornbury?

01:55The wild monkey boy.

01:57I guess, I guess him.

01:58It's like, he reminds me to stay free.

02:00The fictional character that I identified with as a, as a kid, I don't know about anymore,

02:07was Lisa Simpson.

02:08I don't know why.

02:10When, when I was young, I just loved that she was this outcast from her family that was

02:15really into the arts.

02:16I remember there was that episode of The Simpsons saying she became Buddhist.

02:20And so I was like, I'm going to be Buddhist.

02:21And so I remember like waking up at like midnight one night and I was, I must have been like

02:2610 and I tried chanting and my parents were like, what are you doing?

02:29Go back to bed.

02:29Lenny and Carl, you guys are Buddhists?

02:32Oh yeah.

02:33If I didn't have inner peace, I'd completely go psycho on all you guys all the time.

02:37I also had a book that was like, how to be more like Lisa Simpson.

02:40With my first Hollywood paycheck, I, I think I bought my dog, yeah, Bambi, which my mom

02:51was not happy about at all.

02:52My car, I bought an old Mercedes 1984, SEC 500, no pillar windows.

02:59It's the sexiest thing I've ever driven and I'm obsessed with her.

03:04First one, I remember I was living in Atlanta.

03:06I went back home and then I got my check and I took myself to Olive Garden.

03:12You know, that's, that's fine dining.

03:14Breadsticks, you don't do that.

03:16That was luxury.

03:17That is luxury.

03:18My very first one was when I was like 11 or 12 and I had played a feral child in the really

03:26Scottish Robin Hood and I bought a bunch of Ben and Jerry's ice cream.

03:30It wasn't a big paycheck.

03:32Bought a house before I spent it on Nando's.

03:35And, and chocolate.

03:38Invested.

03:39And I put it in a savings account as I do all my Hollywood paychecks to this day.

03:45The first time I was properly, properly starstruck was probably Daniel Day-Lewis.

03:51I mean, you don't, you just don't get better than him.

03:53Yeah, meeting him was, uh, was a, was a ride.

03:56I like saw Tilda Swinton from very far away and literally left the room.

04:01That was probably the most starstruck I've ever been.

04:05I recently did a film with Michelle Williams and Daisy Edgar-Jones.

04:08They were the most inviting people ever, but I sat in the makeup chair between them and

04:12I was like, hi.

04:14I didn't really know what to do with myself.

04:18Meeting Donald Glover, maybe.

04:21I was at the Emmys the other day.

04:25Um, and I was in the queue for an interview right behind Ben Stiller.

04:31And I was freaking out.

04:33I was really like mincing my words.

04:35He's like, congrats on the studio.

04:37And I was like, congrats on amazing life and career.

04:41If I have my AirPods in on set, I'm usually listening to Beyoncé, I'd say.

04:46Trying to get my energy back up.

04:48Recently, right now, I'm listening to Tame Impala on set because I am just

04:53m-s-s-ing my way through my nerves.

04:56I can listen to The Perfect Circle and Tool and Nine Inch Nails, or I could be listening

05:02to a jazz album, or I'm listening to Dvorak or something, or nothing poppy.

05:08I'm not a fan of pop music.

05:10You think I'm like locked in.

05:11I'm like, focus.

05:13I'm prepping for a scene.

05:14And I guarantee you it's probably like The Climb by Miley Cyrus playing.

05:19Or it, I, it's always going to be another mountain.

05:21I just genuinely, like that song is so, she's talking about anxiety.

05:26Think about it.

05:26She's like, there's a voice inside my head.

05:29You'll never make it.

05:35The person I'm dying to work with is Meryl Streep.

05:38Channing Tatum, Lakeith Stanfield, Kiki Palmer, Robert Downey Jr.

05:43The person I'm dying to work with is Colin Farrell.

05:46I think he's, I just, I love chameleons.

05:48And Willem Dafoe, gosh, I have a list that I wrote like 10 years ago, and I will

05:53eventually check them all off as my goal.

05:56I'm going to say Paul Daino.

05:57I just think that he is such a special actor and I just love his career.

06:01Jennifer Lawrence.

06:02Florence Pugh.

06:04The list is endless.

06:05The person in the industry who gave me the best advice was Scarlett Johansson.

06:10She gave me two really good pieces of advice.

06:11One was when we were on the carpet and I was extremely overwhelmed and she told me to imagine

06:15that was in Hawaii, which was really helpful, actually.

06:18And then with acting, she just would remind me to never expect anything.

06:23The best piece of advice I was given was by Nicole Kidman.

06:27She told me, take care of yourself.

06:28And I think it's a very vital part of our art.

06:32In terms of advice, Catherine Hahn, who is the most wonderful human being ever.

06:39And I feel like she's always giving me little kernels of wisdom, but I love how she doesn't

06:44take it so seriously.

06:46Like she's always cracking up and I think just keeping that wonderment.

06:50And also it's like, it's so crazy that we get to do this, like tell a bunch of silly

06:53jokes and hang out with our friends and, you know, be on a movie set.

06:58I think just remembering that that is so crazy and so lucky that we get to do that.

07:09Bye.

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