We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Christopher Cook. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Christopher below.
Christopher, appreciate you joining us today. Do you think your parents have had a meaningful impact on you and your journey?
I know it sounds cliche but they told me to keep going. My dad was the first to really honestly push me to follow my dreams. He supported me when I tried my hand at YouTube and making music. He was the one who started my passion for stand-up comedy and made sure I kept up with my passions. Now my mom was my first PR agent. Anything and everything I ever did or created she shared or talked everyone’s ear off about it. I love them both and I honestly couldn’t ask for better parents.
Christopher, before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?
I’ve been passionate about acting since high school, and I knew I wanted to try my hand at stand-up comedy as well. After honing my skills, I began performing stand-up comedy at the age of 21 and continued until I decided to take the next step and enroll in an acting class. Now, I’m thrilled to be teaching my own youth television and film class and sharing my expertise with the next generation of actors and comedians. The thing that I believe that sets me apart from other rising actors is that I am also willing to be behind the camera. It gives me a different perspective about on-camera work. Working behind the scenes I get to see all of the hard work put into producing productions. It gave me a deeper respect for the behind-the-camera crew.
I am most proud of the community I was able to find myself a part of. Each one of us has our trials and tribulations, and yet we are all still going out each day and creating something amazing every time. I just want my future followers and fans to see just how much I love what I do.
For you, what’s the most rewarding aspect of being a creative?
Money can be nice, but people’s reactions are priceless. People seeing something I spent so many hours working on and loving it. There’s nothing better!
We often hear about learning lessons – but just as important is unlearning lessons. Have you ever had to unlearn a lesson?
In school, I was taught to color inside the lines and for everything to be neat, tidy, and organized. It made me believe that if I didn’t color in the set lines, whatever I did or made wasn’t good enough. In this line of work there are no lines to color in and everything is a rough draft. Nothing is going to be perfect and I had to learn to draw my own lines.
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Chris Lonsberry- Chris Lonsberry Media Shelby Busey- The Class Acting Studios Sean Morgan- muvi films