Well, what about illegal?
What does that look like...
I get touchy on the subject of my color. Especially moving from San Francisco to Petaluma and growing up in Sonoma County in general. I am proud of who I am and what I look like. Out of all the things in my image that I am insecure about I am glad to say that the color of my skin hasn't been one of those. I've done an entry a while back about me being concerned for my (hopefully) future career in acting and being an "actor of color". I have always seen myself as just an actor, but that's because I have been lucky to have experienced color blind casting. But I am an actor of color, I am. I never really notice how different I am from the other actors I am in a show with, but looking back on it... Jekyll&Hyde for instance, my character was originally a white British servant, and when we did the 40s re-write of it we wrote her as an immigrant daughter. The Good Doctor, I was playing a Russian dental student! I don't really know what I am trying to say right now... I'm really excited to begin a professional career in theatre, but at the same time I am so scared, not because of my acting ability, not because of the business and the fact that I am not going to be making that much money... but because of the color of my skin. But hey, some people attribute it to type casting and just casting in general. The Good Doctor for instance, I probably wouldn't be cast in that in a professional production because I do not look Russian. But where is the line drawn on that sort of thing... I'm probably not really making any sense to anyone not in my head. I really want to be the best actor I can be and stay truthful to myself and who I am.
-Regie P.
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