Grayson Russell

My joke is...

With music, there's far more asses to have my head up because I can be on Rob about doing something here or I can be on Skinny or Ward or whoever, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, and here's what we want to do and here's how we can do it.

More control.

Yeah, here's a more foreseeable path at least I can be working toward.

With film, I can be working out, working on some kind of skill that's gonna make me more marketable.

I used to fence in the eighth grade.

Or work on my accent.

And the networking side of that is far more limited because it's not always up to the powers that be.

Because who's to say that the script that they really love is going to get picked up?

And who's to say that when it does get picked up, that it's going to get greenlit by a studio to actually be made?

Or the budget's going to be there to do it the way that they want to?

And who's to say that if they do get that far, it's not going to conflict with something you've already got going on?

And at this point, you're five years into somebody going, hey, I got this part I'd really like for you to read for.

so it's a different it's a different animal altogether I'm glad that I got into it early on when my livelihood did not or at least the livelihood of my family didn't depend on it because like the rejection side of it that really eats people up is one that that kind of escaped because it wasn't as big of a deal whether I got the movie or not as a nine-year-old mmm

because I was just doing it because I knew I was supposed to be doing it.

Right.

Um, there were some roles I didn't get that I really wanted.

I auditioned for, um, SJ and the blind side, but it was too tall.

You know, like the final round and of all things, I was, you know, five, eight Grayson, you know, as a nine year old was too tall or whatever.

Um, but you know, when you're,