I'm not an actor because I wanted to be one day. I'm an actor because I never really knew how to be anything else.

Cinema is the place where that becomes a gift.

What draws me to this craft isn't the spotlight or the recognition. It's the dizzying promise of living multiple lives in one. Of embodying the rage of a man I'll never be, the grief of an era I never knew, the love of a person who only exists on a screen. And making it real. Real enough for someone in a dark theater to hold their breath.

I'm ready to give everything — physically, emotionally, humanly. Not out of cold ambition. Out of necessity. Because for me, acting is the most intense form of being alive.