Inspiration

While working on on Frontline, I found working on my character wasn't  too difficult as I have encountered people that are similar to him in different ways, meaning the character wasn't too difficult to connect with and I was confident that I could work with this character. I established from very early that I did not want to make my character a caricature and use him simply for laugh ans I feel that is often the route that is chosen and that is the easy way of portraying the character.

These for me are examples of types of characters that I wanted to stay away from, as I felt that they were more stereotypes as opposed to honest representations of youth today. Although my character is a stereotypes of sorts, I wanted to help people to see that there is more to these people than just violence and drugs, even if that is the image only they help paint for themselves