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The Greenleaf star shed light on actors' reality, often juggling regular jobs between roles to stay afloat.
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00:00Since you've been in both, like, music and entertainment, like, sectors, can you provide an overview about the life of a paid actor?
00:11Man, I think people think that it's glamorous.
00:13I think when they see us in certain roles or, you know, when people think about Hollywood, they think of grammar.
00:20They think of this just different lifestyle and you don't want for anything and we can use our name to get everything.
00:27And no, bruh, no, not like that.
00:31There's like, I think it's like 2% of the acting community that, you know, might be doing a whole lot better than others.
00:40With there are, you know, actors that you've seen in several different projects who might be day players, who might be background actors, who are still working and, you know, being waiters and waitresses.
00:53Or having to have a line of five or, you know, to keep the lights on.
01:00It's not as glamorous as people make it out to be.
01:03And I don't think people understand that there is a long stretch of time between each project where we're not working.
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