IN PROFILE
ALL THE WORLD’S A STAGE
hen Jet Summan fell out of love with acting, he knew exactly what he wanted to do: study. An actor from a young age, he won a scholarship to the-then Birmingham School of Speech and Drama at the age of 13 and spent his teens treading the boards, Jet Summan took time out from his acting performing Shakespeare career to study for a BSc (Hons) Fire and and other plays, eventually Rescue at the University of Wolverhampton. securing an agent. He’s since returned to his first love, releasing But after a few years, he an award-winning film that centres on a decided he wanted more male victim of domestic violence. He talks and made the decision to to WLV Life about making an impact. step away and pursue a more academic route. “I was in the wrong frame of mind for acting and because I’d always wanted to study for a degree, I wanted to do something completely different,” he said. “I’d always been interested in
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the services, such as the police, fire and armed forces, so looked at what I could do; when I saw the Fire and Rescue degree, I knew it would suit me down to the ground.” He put acting on the backburner and focused on his studies, combining it with being a reserve firefighter in Derbyshire. But in the third year of his degree, the acting bug came back to bite him and he signed up with an agent again. “I loved my time at Wolverhampton; it opened my eyes to studying at a higher level and the teachers were really supportive,” he said. “I met people from different backgrounds and cultures
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