Antonio's Open Road
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Interview (6:36)
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INTERVIEWED BY:
Team BIG
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INTERVIEW LOCATION:
New York, NY
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AIRED ON:
Indie: Indie Roadtrips
ANTONIO SACRE
Actor/Storyteller
“This is something I feel passionately about, this is what I have to do, and I'm gonna do it.”
INTERESTS:
THEMES DISCUSSED:
Acceptance Conflict Community Culture Family Hard Work Negativity Passion Pressure Success Support & Encouragement Struggle
FOUNDATION:
TAGS:
Cuba, immigrant, kids, parents, performances, searching, sports, storytelling, theater
BIOGRAPHY:
- Was cut from all of the sports that he tried as a kid, even bowling; fell into theater by default.
- Loved the communal aspect of theater; quickly became his favorite hobby.
- A professor advised him to go into another profession, didn't think he was good enough to be an actor.
- Moved to Chicago and started writing monologues about his family, modeled after actor John Leguizamo's stories.
- Loves writing, acting in his own stories, rather than waiting for someone else to write them and cast him.
- Started telling stories for children at schools during the day, told more mature stories at bars each night.
- For years, didn't have any support from his father, who thought Antonio was "wasting the sacrifices" he'd made for him.
- Won "Best in Fringe Festival," performed at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C.; his father started to take him seriously.