ALEX WINTER
Mar 21, 2022
5 minutes
When I was 16, I was working on Broadway in Peter Pan . I was a high-school kid during the day, at a regular public high school. I was on the soccer team. Then every single day I would take the bus into the city and do a show that night. I’d do a matinee on Wednesday, and four shows on the weekend. I was leading a kind of double life.
I was trying to figure out how I was going to navigate my life, like a lot of 16-year-olds. What is this world? And how am I going to function in it? I had a lot of varied interests and it was sometimes confusing as to how to balance them. I wanted to act and I wanted to direct and I wanted to write. The advice I give other kids, if I go into film school now, is
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