I grew up in a lower middle-class family in New York and had the fear of God put in me to do well by my mother. She was from a small town in Scotland and the only way out of her situation was education. I worked my ass off to do well, got As, and was good at sports, so I ended up being head boy, which I know makes me sound like a brown nose, but that’s not actually how it was.
If I’d made the grade in my school choir my life might have been different. I went to a church school after third grade called Grace Church school in New York. My friends said: “Everybody gets in and they pay you and they give you those golf tournament-sized cheques, too.” I auditioned but didn’t make it. It was a fork in the road moment. I was like, “Fuck the choir. Fuck music. I’m going to be an actor.”
