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But I ended up transferring back to UCLA. I always wanted to go to UCLA because it was what I knew. So I ended up, I was fortunate enough to be accepted to Brown University. And had I been a little more mature at 18, I think I would have realized that he was probably right, and it was best for me. And my father was incredibly talented pioneer and many things in entertainment. And my journey from about 18 through my late 20s was kind of a bit all over the place, but I wouldn’t be who I am today without it. And I was like, I didn’t really know what my passions were.Īnd so it started me on my journey. But as I got older in high school, and he had left CAA to do other stuff, he kind of left me with this big question mark on what I wanted to do. And I always thought that that was kind of the path for me. He started a company called Creative Artists Agency, which was one of the biggest agencies around and so it was amazing to watch and to be around. But was there any kind of like inspiration for you of the path that you want to go down as you were thinking about going to school, before you went to Brown and UCLA? I don’t know if your mother was in the entertainment industry as well. Your father was in the entertainment industry. And that was the name on my fake ID in high school, so yeah. Yeah, I also like being Zangief, the Russian wrestler, whatever.įunny story, I always played as Ken Masters. I was like, that was a real favorite for me. Yeah, I remember Street Fighter 2 with like Ken and Ryu and Hadouken and all that. Earlier than that, I played really Super Bomberman and Mario Kart on the SNES, lots of Street Fighter, things like that. So I was about 15 when PlayStation 1 came out so I think that was probably the core part of my childhood gaming love and I would say Final Fantasy VII, Resident Evil.

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Were there any games that you liked the most? You mentioned that you were passionate for gaming and for film. So I played a lot of baseball growing up. Yeah, I definitely spent a lot more time playing, baseball was my sport. You were probably a much better skater than I was. And then when I started hurting my ankle skateboarding, my coaches were like, “All right, that’s it. I was a skater growing up, I played some soccer and tennis. And it was a pretty traditional childhood. Pretty normal childhood in LA, as normal as it can be growing up in LA, lots of after school sports and just hanging out with friends, skateboarding and roller hockey and football and all sorts of stuff like that, lots of video games and film in my family. Why don’t you tell me about where you grew up and your childhood a little bit?

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