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Teen thespian forging name for himself An 18-year-old actor from Maple Ridge is open to any and all roles.
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Writing brings a whole new set of challenges. “It’s hard to make it real, right? For some reason, it’s easy to speak normally but when you try to write it down on a page it doesn’t come to you.” He aspires to add extra layers to his profession, as not only an actor, but a writer and director, too. This also means being open to any kind of role that comes his way. He’s not adverse to showing the darker side of Dakota, some day. “The villains are the most fun ones to play,” he said. “It’s opposite my personality, right? That’s what you can use acting for. You can play things you aren’t comfortable with or as a human being, you wouldn’t be. Online, all the time...
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That’s what makes it fun.” “This is something I hadn’t He’d even act in horror flicks, learned until I started going to which he admits, “scare the s**t school. I learned not to fake but out of me.” to live within my characters,” “They’re fun to be he said. “To allow them View in, though,” he said. “I to act and feel emotions wouldn’t be able to watch video & freely, separate from photos it.” myself even if they scared with Whatever genre he me or I don’t agree with takes on next, the key them. ’Cause at the end to being a good actor is of the day, it’s not about or online to let the character flow you. You have nothing to through you, and not to do with it; it’s about your simply act the part. character and what makes “If you can see the them individuals.” actors ‘acting’ then it’s Daulby has a word of bad,” he said. advice for all aspiring In a film, he said, all that’s actors: “It’s an unforgiving busihappening is you’re being ness and no matter how naturally allowed to watch the vulnergifted you are, training is imability of individuals during the perative. There’s no competition most intense moments of their between a trained and untrained lives. actor.”
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admits that Drew has a little more faith than he has. “He takes a pretty major character arc as a human being,” Daulby said as he lounged outside a local coffee shop, before heading to the set located nearby Troy Landreville by. “He starts off almost naive to tlandreville@mrtimes.com the world. He thinks everybody Dakota Daulby looks the part can be helped and saved, by the of an actor. end, he realizes that not everyHis jaw and cheekbones look thing is like it seems. Not everylike they’ve been chiseled out of one can be saved and he focuses granite. Sandy blonde hair falls on the ones who can be saved.” over his forehead. Daulby is starring alongside But as the blue-eyed teen thesPaloma Kwiatkowski (who plays pian from Maple Ridge knows the role of Sammie) Suzanne all too well, looking the part and Clement (Marlene) and Callum playing it are two entirely differKeith Rennie, (Fast Freddie, ent things. one of the members of the con The 18-year-old Daulby, in his group). hometown earlier this spring for He said every project he does the third and final week of filmadds more experience and serves ing of the movie Sitting on the as another mark on his resume. Edge of Marlene, takes this acting Half the battle of acting, he says, thing pretty seriously. is building relationships with “Acting isn’t an art of ‘fakpeople. ing,’ it’s the ability to bring a “I have aspirations to do bigcharacter to life, just like you ger things but I’m just as grateful and me are alive. ‘Acting’ is for this,” he said. “Whether it’s a a terrible word to describe the million dollar shoot or a $20 milart,” he said. lion shoot.” “When you go to Since starring in The a theatre and you Woodcarver alongside come out after John Ratzenburger, finishing watchbetter known as ing a movie and Cliff Claven of you say, ‘Wow, Cheers fame, Daulby the acting in that believes he’s grown film was amazing!’ as an actor and a you’re insulting person. the actors because In his first year as you’re saying a full time student they didn’t do their at Vancouver’s job well.” NewImage College His latest film, of Fine Arts, Sitting on the Edge Daulby said he’s on set with , by of Marlene, revolves “grown a million ul Da ta ko Da Kwiatkowski around a young girl, per cent” since co-star Paloma of Sitting g Sammie, and her The Woodcarver. in m fil e th g durin lene. mother Marlene, and “I was quite the Edge of Mar on the trials and tribulagreen when tions they go through I started it [The in their relationship. Woodcarver],” he said. “I definDaulby plays Drew, who tries itely grew up fast. I lucked out to to, he says, “bring Sammie to the getting that [role]. I didn’t know light of the Lord in a way. Trying what I was doing as an actor.” to save her from her path.” Recently he’s dabbled in Marlene is part of a con busiscreenwriting, penning his own ness and Sammie gets caught up scripts. He’s putting together in the same world as her mother. a pilot for a TV series that he While Daulby has faith, he hopes to get produced.
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