“When you're an artist, it's not a button you can push on or off. You're always an actor.
I sleep as an actor. I wake up as an actor.... I always think about art and creativity, and that's all I want to do.”
- Omid Memar
This week’s guest is Omid Memar. He’s a fantastic actor who I recently was able to work with for an upcoming movie called 7500
(We actually recorded this episode at the movie’s premiere in Switzerland).
Omid’s acting is incredibly honest and real and heartbreaking and human. He also comes from a very culturally-rich background— he’s from an Iranian family, grew up in Austria, moved to Munich, and graduated from a French school.
He’s a young guy that’s really just getting started in his career, so I thought he would be perfect to answer this week’s question from Megan Colbert in Springfield, New York. Megan asked, “How do you balance the inner need to create with the practical need to bring in a paycheck?”
Omid and I talk about what it’s like to be up-and-coming in the industry, and how the artistry and creativity in acting is often overshadowed by the idea of ‘celebrity’.
We also talk about the influence of cultural identity when selecting roles, the creative impact that music has had on each of us, and we top it all off with a touching conversation about our grandmothers.
Duration: 39:54
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