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Elliot James LangridgeHost... and I've seen a lot of your films and, and the shows that you've been in, but actually going back and looking at the absolute, the, there's so much range to the work that you've done.
And looking at it all in one go, I was like, "This is astonishing." I'd love to go back and sort of talk about how this journey began and, and, you know, where that love of performing came from.
Um, and my speech teacher, I was taking a speech class, and we had to write and prepare these speeches.
And, but I would perform mine, and my teacher, and this was junior high school in New Orleans, and she was like, "You know, you're an actress." Mrs.
She said, "Yes, you need to join the drama club," and I did, and it was the best decision I ever made because I really loved...
And then in high school, which was c- you know, the big high school on the West Bank where I grew up in, you know, big public, these are all public schools, so they're big and, and, uh, so I just was bitten.
My, my grandfather, who died young unfortunately, my mother's mother was a, he was an, it was his advocation, but he was an actor and, and, um, but he was an English teacher and a football coach.
He was a renaissance man, he could do everything, and handsome as the day is long.
Um, and so I, I, I just started then, and I, but I was at LSU, and I said, "I think I need to get out of my environment and go to New York." And I went to Fordham and put my mother and father in debt, but I went to Fordham [laughs] and, and again, the best decision I ever made, to start studying, to go to New York and just really start anew and-
... um, and then went off to Yale School of Drama and then s- I've been working since 198- professionally working since 1985.
... and I've seen a lot of your films and, and the shows that you've been in, but actually going back and looking at the absolute, the, there's so much range to the work that you've done.
And looking at it all in one go, I was like, "This is astonishing." I'd love to go back and sort of talk about how this journey began and, and, you know, where that love of performing came from.
Um, and my speech teacher, I was taking a speech class, and we had to write and prepare these speeches.
And, but I would perform mine, and my teacher, and this was junior high school in New Orleans, and she was like, "You know, you're an actress." Mrs.
She said, "Yes, you need to join the drama club," and I did, and it was the best decision I ever made because I really loved...
And then in high school, which was c- you know, the big high school on the West Bank where I grew up in, you know, big public, these are all public schools, so they're big and, and, uh, so I just was bitten.
My, my grandfather, who died young unfortunately, my mother's mother was a, he was an, it was his advocation, but he was an actor and, and, um, but he was an English teacher and a football coach.
He was a renaissance man, he could do everything, and handsome as the day is long.
Um, and so I, I, I just started then, and I, but I was at LSU, and I said, "I think I need to get out of my environment and go to New York." And I went to Fordham and put my mother and father in debt, but I went to Fordham [laughs] and, and again, the best decision I ever made, to start studying, to go to New York and just really start anew and-
... um, and then went off to Yale School of Drama and then s- I've been working since 198- professionally working since 1985.
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