Ray William Johnson

You may have seen it.

It's actually a great movie.

Now, while on set, Lilo is having a really good time.

Like, he's working with the director, he's performing in front of the camera and whatnot.

But this is also when one of his fellow castmates introduces him to a little Zaza.

So he starts smoking and getting high for the first time.

So basically, overnight, he goes from a regular kid who just like hangs out at the beach to a well-known lead actor in a successful Hollywood movie.

And honestly, this is a lot for a teenager to handle.

But he keeps going, he keeps acting, and he keeps doing more movies.

Like in 1994, he's in Renaissance Man.

In 1995, he's in Crimson Tide.

And so not only is he continuing to act, but he also continues to do drugs and drink.

and over time his partying and drug use keeps getting more frequent and now he's moved on to taking painkillers and like doing cocaine and stuff and soon he starts trying out even more drugs like smoking crack and pretty quickly he becomes addicted and in order to keep himself functioning he starts doing even more drugs like he starts snorting heroin to balance out the high that he gets from doing crack

But I guess he hides all this well enough and it doesn't affect his ability to get cast because he continues to get work.

And in 1999, he gets the role of a minor mobster in a little show you might have heard of called The Sopranos.

So career-wise, things seem to be going well for him.

But eventually, all this drug use and experimentation starts to catch up with him.

Like at this point, he's often high, at work, on set, not just on smoking Zaza, but on heroin.

And like people on the crew start to notice.

And at one point, James Gandolfini, the star of The Sopranos, notices that he's on drugs and he like pulls him aside and he tells him to be careful and don't waste this opportunity.