Luke Evans

College is a very important part of the process, I think, because as you get older, you don't go back to formal training.

You may have a teacher or you do like a class a week, but, you know, formal college when you actually go and do it.

six hours a day, five days a week.

You can't do anything wrong.

You're just always learning.

You're absorbing, absorbing, absorbing.

It's also a safe space and you're surrounded by like-minded people, wonderful teachers, if you're very lucky.

I had some amazing teachers throughout the three years I was in college and it's a good place to learn a lot.

Not deeply, but to learn a lot about different parts of the business.

And then you finesse as you go through and you work out what you really want to do.

And sometimes during those years you go, I'm going to be a singer.

Or I want to join a contemporary dance company.

Or I want to write.

Or I don't want anything to do with this business after I leave.

And that is absolutely fine because it is not an easy business.

It's not fair.

So you need to be incredibly resilient.

I was brought up as a Jehovah's Witness, so we had doors slammed in our faces from me being in a stroller through to being a 15-year-old hating knocking someone's door.

So, you know, not getting a job for me was just like, all right, fine, there's another door next door, and we'll knock another one, you know?

And coming to Broadway and seeing how alive and loved and big the community is here.