 All right, that's awesome. Staging it behind the scenes. There's four cameras on me. That's one, that's two, and then, let's go, let's go. Cool, you're recording? Yeah. My question to you, I want to ask you about any odd jobs you had, or any nine to five jobs you had before you were famous. Oh my God, I've shipped the boxes in the warehouse. I worked in the market. I got off the cracker dorm and the fingers were freezing cold, putting the stall up. I worked in restaurants, bar man. I was an entertainer, the hardest thing I've ever done is I was an entertainer at children's parties. That is humiliating, let me tell you. Particularly if you're working for actors and people who are your age or younger that make a ton of money. Nothing is beneath my dignity. I think, you know, work is dignified. Just get out of your house and do something. When you just started creating a vision for yourself, like maybe outside of that. I used to work at Wendy's, and the manager came up to me one day and she was like, Dante, you're going to be a manager here one day. I never went back. I had another vision for myself. You know, I'm not shitting on Wendy's, I'm noble to have a job, but I knew that wasn't for me. I know I had a bigger vision for myself for you. Like when did you have a, you know that you had a bigger vision for yourself? Well, so I went to college to study law originally. And I was doing it and I thought I should do everything as a hobby while you're at college. Take advantage of anything. Always say yes, regret the things you've done, not the things you haven't, never say no. So I said yes to everything. And I tried to do anything I could. And one of the things I thought the students did, my cliche was they did a play. I also thought they read philosophy books and they drank French wine. I don't know, I tried to do a bunch of shit. And so I did a play and I suddenly found I was in a room and I felt for the very first time in my life, like it didn't matter where I came from and I wasn't self-conscious about anything. I wasn't always thinking other people have the key. Other people had been to that class where life was explained that I'd missed, you know? And so I did play after play after play. I just followed my passion. And just for a second I began to think, you know, there are some people that do this for a living. And I applied for drama schools and I made what I thought was a tough decision, which is I wasn't gonna do a sensible job and I probably was gonna be poor but I was gonna be happy and fulfilled. I never thought I would survive. I never thought about anything to do with finance. I thought if I could do this all my life, there was food in the fridge, I'd be happy. It so happens that I ended up making a good living but mostly what I did is I followed my gut and I followed my passion. I followed the one thing I did where I felt like I was myself. That was just really good. One last thing, you know, art really inspired me. My uncle, he died at 39 and art was a big part of his life. And I felt like if he would have believed in himself, he maybe he would have had him for longer. You know, he would never say he was an artist but he can draw the Hulk with his eyes closed, you know? So for me, my question to you is, how do you feel about the influence that art has on people? I think it's, well, you have time for a long answer. Do you have time for a long answer? Yeah, absolutely, go for it. So I used to go and help out this school in South Central, Los Angeles, when I lived there. It's an outreach program and it's a blighted neighborhood. I mean, there's nobody, no one's got any dads. Most of the teenage girls are pregnant, you know. Crime and drugs have just laid waste to the community and it was this one class, this film class that still existed, even though the school had no art, drama, music, phys ed and had nothing this school. And there was this young girl one day that went into hell. I shouldn't say anything, but I said, what do you want to do? She goes, I want to do a little film where my older self gives me advice. And I said, okay, tell me what, let's pick two or three things in your life so you can give yourself advice about. Where are you having trouble in your life? What are the difficult areas? And she said, well, I've been raped since I was a baby, me and my sister. And then my dad's gone to prison for life because the immigration people found him. And then my mom's gone to prison because she protected him and she kind of projected me and said I was lying and they locked her up as well. So now I'm in the foster camp and my brother, my foster brother's beating me up all the time. I'm listening to this like reeling a punch drum. And I said, okay, so what do you want to tell yourself? She said, well, it's not really for me, I want to do it for my sister. I said, why your sister? She goes, because she's really fallen down the well and she's just reacting badly and she's taking a lot of drugs and she just is not communicating with the world. And I said, why would you be okay? She said, because I have books and I have poetry and I know I'm gonna get to college because I go to the library and I see my way out of here. And that's the single answer. That's the most powerful thing I've ever heard in the world. Art gives people a vision of what's possible.