HARRISON STONE Acting with Passion Please tell us who Harrison is. Harrison is an actor who was born in the small East Texas town of Daingerfield. His recent work includes 2019 Best Picture winner “Green Book” along with guest starring in the new Netflix limited WWII series “The Liberator.” He has also made appearances on “NCIS: New Orleans,” DC’s “Swamp Thing” and HBO’s “The Outsider.” Harrison’s goal is to honor God with his life and though his work, and to inspire others the way he has been inspired by film. How did you get started as an Actor/Artist? I was a competitive tennis player initially. I used to travel around the nation playing tournaments. I had always been into sports and being from a small southern town, I never imagined acting in movies and tv shows would ever be even a remote possibility for me. When I was 16, I started to get burned out as a tennis player and realized it was no longer my dream. While considering what I wanted to do with my life, I was watching a movie and scrolling on the internet. I saw an ad for on camera acting classes and I decided then that I wanted to be an actor. I was always very very shy, quiet and introverted growing up, so I wasn’t sure if it would work for me, but I went out and bought a bunch of books and movies and studied alone in my room. I was always too afraid to start
classes because I assumed I’d be the worst and would be made fun of. Eventually I got the courage to audition for a local community theatre production, even though I almost threw up beforehand from the nerves, and then not long after that I decided to finally being classes. I’ve been in class ever since. What drives you to stay to be an actor? Honestly, its just the love of acting. I genuinely feel, and have always felt, that I will be acting for the rest of my life in any capacity I can. Whether that be doing scenes in class or working on ma jor film and tv sets, I just love everything about it. I never really thought I’d ever work on a real movie or tv show, I didn’t really imagine I’d ever even get an agent, so for me it’s always been about doing the thing I love. Any of the bookings and success is just icing on top because for me the joy comes in the working and the process. I just love everything about it. I love it. Who is someone you respect in your industry? I have so many heroes and people I look up to in the industry. For me James Dean, Marlon Brando, Robert Mitchum, Robert De Niro, Matthew McConaughey, Ryan Gosling, and Johnny Depp are my acting heroes and Terrence Malick and Richard Linklater are my filmmaking heroes. Dean, Malick and Linklater in
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