[video available on spotify] it was announced about a month ago that i’m going to be acting in my first movie, and this is a massive plot twist in my life. i was so closed off to the idea of acting that i said i’d never do it. so what happened? today we’re going to discuss how i went from saying “never”, to saying “yes”. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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So, it was announced about a month ago that I'm going to be acting in my first movie. And this is a huge plot twist, okay? Pun intended. It's a massive plot twist in my life. To all of you, because you've all known me for my entire career as a YouTuber and podcaster who's themselves. That's what I built my career on. But it's also a plot twist to me, okay?
I didn't pursue a career in entertainment to one day be an actor. That was never the goal. In fact, I remember when my career on YouTube really started to pick up and it became time to sort of build a team around me, managers, agents, whatever. And I remember being in meetings with agents and them just saying to me, so you want to be an actor, right? And I was like, no, I want to be a YouTuber.
This is not a stepping stone for me. This is the final destination. I want to be a YouTuber. And I remember being so frustrated. Why does acting seem to be the final destination? What's wrong with just being a YouTuber? And I became very stubborn about this. And I feel like these early experiences in my career of being told that I should be an actor, that that should be my final destination.
I feel like these moments made me stubborn and completely closed off to the idea of acting. And so for the last few years, I've been like, I'm never going to be an actor. I have no interest in acting. and leave me alone. I just want to be myself. That's what I built my career on. That's what I want to do for the rest of my life. I don't want to pretend to be something else.
That goes against the entire ethos of my career thus far. And stop trying to tell me what to do. That's the other thing. I'm very rebellious. And when people tell me what to do, I tend to do the opposite. So I think it wasn't helpful that in the very beginning, I was told I should be an actor. I was so closed off to the idea of acting that I said I'd never do it.
Like that was my answer to the question. Like if I was in an interview and I was asked, would you ever consider acting? My answer was no, absolutely not. And now I'm gonna be in a movie. Okay, so what happened, right? How did that happen? Well, that's what we're gonna discuss today, okay? How I went from saying never to saying yes. Thank you so much for watching.
Feed by hand for a playful moment, in a bowl for a creamy treat, or as a topper to make mealtime fun. Visit TemptationsTreats.com to learn more. Now, let's get back to the episode. Let's go back to those meetings in the beginning of my career when I was building out a team. Being told that the ultimate goal in entertainment should be to be an actor really made me angry. It bothered me.
And I really don't think that these agents meant any harm. I really do think that they're trained classically to be like, well, digital entertainment, modern entertainment is a stepping stone to traditional entertainment. You know, this is all that they know. This is the world that they live in. acting being the pinnacle.
And I do not think that they were trying to insult me or steer me in the wrong direction. I really do genuinely think that they just couldn't comprehend the idea that being a YouTuber, being a podcaster, being yourself is a sustainable career. You know, I think at the time it was so new, it was incomprehensible. But as a 17, 18 year old, I was stubborn. And so this sort of pissed me off.
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