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Harold Perrineau

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Living The Red Life
Harold Perrineau: The Struggles They Don’t Tell You About in Acting

Like, I think it's... Look, I think it's important to raise, like, great human beings, right? And so... being a great human being means you're active in your own life as well, and so I like them to see me do things that I succeed at or that I work really hard for, because they're not going to see the part that's really hard, which is parenting. parenting is really hard.

Living The Red Life
Harold Perrineau: The Struggles They Don’t Tell You About in Acting

Like, I think it's... Look, I think it's important to raise, like, great human beings, right? And so... being a great human being means you're active in your own life as well, and so I like them to see me do things that I succeed at or that I work really hard for, because they're not going to see the part that's really hard, which is parenting. parenting is really hard.

Living The Red Life
Harold Perrineau: The Struggles They Don’t Tell You About in Acting

They're not going to see that part, but they're going to see the other things that I do and realize that even within that, I still try to incorporate them as well. And I think it's going to help make, help them be really great rounded human beings and find their own passions and figure out like, oh, my dad, he used to work really hard. I remember those times he would go away. So,

Living The Red Life
Harold Perrineau: The Struggles They Don’t Tell You About in Acting

They're not going to see that part, but they're going to see the other things that I do and realize that even within that, I still try to incorporate them as well. And I think it's going to help make, help them be really great rounded human beings and find their own passions and figure out like, oh, my dad, he used to work really hard. I remember those times he would go away. So,

Living The Red Life
Harold Perrineau: The Struggles They Don’t Tell You About in Acting

They're not going to see that part, but they're going to see the other things that I do and realize that even within that, I still try to incorporate them as well. And I think it's going to help make, help them be really great rounded human beings and find their own passions and figure out like, oh, my dad, he used to work really hard. I remember those times he would go away. So,

Living The Red Life
Harold Perrineau: The Struggles They Don’t Tell You About in Acting

I might not be able to be with my friends tonight, but I do want to go and do this thing because it's really going to serve me in whatever it is I'm looking for. And so hopefully they'll see those things happening with me and that'll inspire them in some way. I hope. I hope.

Living The Red Life
Harold Perrineau: The Struggles They Don’t Tell You About in Acting

I might not be able to be with my friends tonight, but I do want to go and do this thing because it's really going to serve me in whatever it is I'm looking for. And so hopefully they'll see those things happening with me and that'll inspire them in some way. I hope. I hope.

Living The Red Life
Harold Perrineau: The Struggles They Don’t Tell You About in Acting

I might not be able to be with my friends tonight, but I do want to go and do this thing because it's really going to serve me in whatever it is I'm looking for. And so hopefully they'll see those things happening with me and that'll inspire them in some way. I hope. I hope.

Living The Red Life
Harold Perrineau: The Struggles They Don’t Tell You About in Acting

I got to say that, you know, in my career, I've had a lot. I've been really successful. Lucky is what I mean. Not just successful, but, like, there are a lot of actors, and there are a lot of great actors. And, like, not only working hard, but it takes a little bit of luck, you know what I mean? And luck is... almost where you make it, you put yourself in the position to be lucky.

Living The Red Life
Harold Perrineau: The Struggles They Don’t Tell You About in Acting

I got to say that, you know, in my career, I've had a lot. I've been really successful. Lucky is what I mean. Not just successful, but, like, there are a lot of actors, and there are a lot of great actors. And, like, not only working hard, but it takes a little bit of luck, you know what I mean? And luck is... almost where you make it, you put yourself in the position to be lucky.

Living The Red Life
Harold Perrineau: The Struggles They Don’t Tell You About in Acting

I got to say that, you know, in my career, I've had a lot. I've been really successful. Lucky is what I mean. Not just successful, but, like, there are a lot of actors, and there are a lot of great actors. And, like, not only working hard, but it takes a little bit of luck, you know what I mean? And luck is... almost where you make it, you put yourself in the position to be lucky.

Living The Red Life
Harold Perrineau: The Struggles They Don’t Tell You About in Acting

But I do remember when I got William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, and I had the dreads, and I was just, you know, and I was like this dancer who was weird and wacky, and I didn't think I had a shot in hell to get it, but I kept going back and going back and going back, and Baz was like, let's try this, let's try this, and then I wound up being there, and I remember when I got it, I was just like...

Living The Red Life
Harold Perrineau: The Struggles They Don’t Tell You About in Acting

But I do remember when I got William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, and I had the dreads, and I was just, you know, and I was like this dancer who was weird and wacky, and I didn't think I had a shot in hell to get it, but I kept going back and going back and going back, and Baz was like, let's try this, let's try this, and then I wound up being there, and I remember when I got it, I was just like...

Living The Red Life
Harold Perrineau: The Struggles They Don’t Tell You About in Acting

But I do remember when I got William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, and I had the dreads, and I was just, you know, and I was like this dancer who was weird and wacky, and I didn't think I had a shot in hell to get it, but I kept going back and going back and going back, and Baz was like, let's try this, let's try this, and then I wound up being there, and I remember when I got it, I was just like...

Living The Red Life
Harold Perrineau: The Struggles They Don’t Tell You About in Acting

Oh, snap. I'm about to do Shakespeare. Shakespeare. With, you know, some of the greatest actors on the planet. And this amazing young director, Baz Luhrmann. And it was one of those times when I was just like, this is wild. Like, this is wild. We shot in Mexico City. It was really, really amazing. It felt like... Yeah, yeah, it felt really good to have to do that.

Living The Red Life
Harold Perrineau: The Struggles They Don’t Tell You About in Acting

Oh, snap. I'm about to do Shakespeare. Shakespeare. With, you know, some of the greatest actors on the planet. And this amazing young director, Baz Luhrmann. And it was one of those times when I was just like, this is wild. Like, this is wild. We shot in Mexico City. It was really, really amazing. It felt like... Yeah, yeah, it felt really good to have to do that.

Living The Red Life
Harold Perrineau: The Struggles They Don’t Tell You About in Acting

Oh, snap. I'm about to do Shakespeare. Shakespeare. With, you know, some of the greatest actors on the planet. And this amazing young director, Baz Luhrmann. And it was one of those times when I was just like, this is wild. Like, this is wild. We shot in Mexico City. It was really, really amazing. It felt like... Yeah, yeah, it felt really good to have to do that.

Living The Red Life
Harold Perrineau: The Struggles They Don’t Tell You About in Acting

I had done this movie also. I did this movie called The Edge. And it's me and it was Alec Baldwin and Anthony Hopkins, which is already mind blowing, like mind blowing. It's crazy. and we go to the premiere, and we walk out of the premiere, and somebody goes, young man, that bear ate you up, and I look up to see who it is, and it's Morgan Freeman, and I stop. I'm just like,

Living The Red Life
Harold Perrineau: The Struggles They Don’t Tell You About in Acting

I had done this movie also. I did this movie called The Edge. And it's me and it was Alec Baldwin and Anthony Hopkins, which is already mind blowing, like mind blowing. It's crazy. and we go to the premiere, and we walk out of the premiere, and somebody goes, young man, that bear ate you up, and I look up to see who it is, and it's Morgan Freeman, and I stop. I'm just like,

Living The Red Life
Harold Perrineau: The Struggles They Don’t Tell You About in Acting

I had done this movie also. I did this movie called The Edge. And it's me and it was Alec Baldwin and Anthony Hopkins, which is already mind blowing, like mind blowing. It's crazy. and we go to the premiere, and we walk out of the premiere, and somebody goes, young man, that bear ate you up, and I look up to see who it is, and it's Morgan Freeman, and I stop. I'm just like,