Benicio Del Toro

I still remember it.

And the feeling was like, there's a logic to this.

There's a science to this.

And also the fact like, am I on time?

I thought if you were an actor, you had to be born into acting.

And just like a musician, you need to start playing when you're like,

You need to come from a family of musicians or you need to come from a family of theater people and actors.

And it was kind of strange that it was like, hey, this is the right time to start.

And I took the class and then I started realizing that there was a logic to it.

You can study it and you can get better.

Yes.

I went into a controlled environment to an extent.

I went to a private school, a boarding school.

And...

What I do remember is suddenly I was alone.

But the person to my left or to my right were alone too.

So there was like this beginning that was very healthy for new thoughts.

There were no cliques.

I made friends with the basketball players because I played basketball.

But for the most part, everybody was an equal footing.