MATHIEU SILVERMAN Finding His Way on Set Please tell us who Mathieu is. I am 5 days away from turning 15. I live in NYC and in the 9th grade. I have an older sister and a 3 year old Bernese Mountain Dog named Bailey. I consider myself to be an easy going, go with the flow kind of kid. I am a foodie - I love cooking and going to nice restaurants. I’ve been taking flying lessons for the past year. I like hanging out with my friends. I also love to be on set and meeting the new people that I am going to be working with. This year I won the Young Entertainer Award© for Best Young Actor in a Short Film. How did you get started as an Actor/Artist? When I was in 4th grade, I auditioned for the lead role in a school play. It was a comedic role and I was more surprised than anyone that I got it. After that, I was hooked!
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What drives you to stay to be an actor? While being an actor is actually a lot of hard work, it is also really rewarding. It’s a challenge to learn my lines and the character while also getting all my homework and studying done for school. Sometimes when my school workload is really heavy, I don’t feel like I should be acting. But, my parents support my acting and the moment I step onto the set it always feels so good and I then remember why it’s worth it and how much I love it.
Who is someone you respect in your industry? Liam Neeson! He’s a great actor and when I was younger he was so nice to meet with me in his home and talk to me about acting and all the challenges actors face. It was an amazing experience and he was so down to earth. Most people think actors like him are aloof or snobbish. Maybe some are, I don’t know. But Liam was really nice. Can you tell us how the last few months of COVID (Stay-at-Home) has made a positive or negative impact on your acting career? Covid started off being really tough on my acting career. I live in NYC and most of the productions were shut down for a long time. I tried to make the best of this break by taking a lot of online acting classes and webinars. Hopefully I’m a better actor for it. How have you stayed busy in your industry during COVID these last few months? I got together with a bunch of acting friends, the ones I often audition with for roles, and using Zoom we filmed a web series called The Quaran-Teen(s). I even got to write one of the episodes, which was a first. That was a lot of fun.
