Beulah Koale is proud to represent Pacific Islanders in 'Thank You for Your Service'
New Zealand's South Auckland isn't what one might call ripe training ground for Hollywood newcomers. To Beulah Koale, the place he calls home "is kind of like the ghetto, the 'hood." And there, most guys don't dream of being an actor.
"I wanted to be a rugby player. I wanted to be an All Black," Koale said, referencing the country's national rugby team.
At around 17 or 18 years old, however, he discovered acting. Granted, it was through a Mondays-only drama program at his school that he and the rest of the rugby team joined only because it allowed them to skip three classes. But it was there that he realized the reason he loved rugby so much - because it was a legal way to vent about his upbringing and hurt people without consequences, he said - was also present in acting.
"I ended
