We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Scott Mun. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Scott below.

Scott , looking forward to hearing all of your stories today. Let’s start with education – we’d love to hear your thoughts about how we can better prepare students for a more fulfilling life and career.

I went to public school all my life and have found it for me to be great! That being said though, I disagree with the public educational system. It felt when I was in public school and even so now like a daycare. A place to drop your child off so that both parents are able to work to be able to provide for the child. I didn’t really learn anything in school other than being able to be social , and sort of cheat the system. I feel we all have different interests and different ways we like to be taught. In public school everyone is graded the same way, taught the same way, and have the same boring classes. I understand because the system is free, but at the same time I feel like it sets up a lot of kids for failure. I would love to be able to see public schools having different programs for students such as creative, trade, engineering style outlets. where they’re able to give a certain freedom to children to be able to express and doing something they’d like instead of just busy work, copy and paste style of work. I feel like these systems just help you become another cog in the machine to help other business or industries grow their company. I’m privilege in a weird way to have had no real structure as a child, no real parenting , but an inspired mind to chase the things I really wanted to do. I was good at getting by, but more determined to figure out how to escape my situation back home. To be something bigger. I don’t think many kids get that opportunity. and sometimes if left to their own devices it isn’t a good thing either. I had people around me that inspired me. I had football to make me disipline, to create a work ethic, keep me out of trouble.

Great, appreciate you sharing that with us. Before we ask you to share more of your insights, can you take a moment to introduce yourself and how you got to where you are today to our readers.

I was in high school determined to play in the nfl. I trained as much as I could during the season and off season. On the weekends I would spend time with my dad watching movies. I remember going into my last year in high school having a dislike for my football coach and slowly started to make me rethink what I was doing. I was like damn, do I really want to spend four years in college dedicating myself to school work(had so much hatred for) and football. I then had the thought to join theater class at my school. I watched inglorious Bastards, and that was then the moment I truly became inspired to want to act, seeing Brad Pitt playing a American hero was cool, but also coming to this other conclusion that he has played so many other types of characters. Remembering in that moment how obsessed my mom and my aunt were when we watched “A River runs through it”. I remember thinking maybe I dont have to be locked in to just going to school and being in the field I study, and maybe football , but instead an actor where I can be so many different things. I remember thinking how there really wasn’t anyone who looked like me in the industry at the time and thinking how that was possible. Thinking how under represented I was. Sure I had Bruce lee, Jackie chan, Jet Li, but it felt so one dimensional. I wanted to see asians or mixed asians being more than that, so then thought maybe I could help pioneer that and be an inspiration to people like me. I left Baltimore for 2 months to give LA a shot back when I got out of high school, and it was tough. I had no idea how to start, who to talk to. I was depressed and so was like maybe this isnt for me. I then Got back home to Baltimore and had the idea that I’d build a studio and start filming my own short films and putting them up on youtube to discovered. I did that but still didnt feel like I was making progress. I then acted on a commercial for a jewelry company there (not sure how I got it) and then asked the agency who was making it if I could intern at the ad agency. They said Yes. I took my school form leraning how to edit videos from my short films to being able to be an vfx editor assistant at the ad agency, and at that moment knew man if I didnt have to go to college for this and did it becuase it was my passion, what could I land in a bigger city like New York. Things kind of fell in place and my cousin asked if i could stay at his condo in New York, while he had left the country for a year. I said absolutely. I moved there, and slowly built a network of people. I was auditioning for films, built connections to get me into modeling which then lead me to getting an opportunity to live in Asia for a year. I got to Model in Thailand and give it a try in Japan and Korea as well. I had made other half asian friends out there that happened to be from America, and so we decided after our contracts were done to move to LA and give it our best to try acting, It’s been a long journey but filled with so much trial an error. A lot to be proud of and to keep pushing for. I feel finally in a place where things are starting to make sense. I am producing my first feature as well as acting in. I have incredible people around me and it feels like its all occurring at the right time .

Have you ever had to pivot?

I always would think about one days my parents leaving this world and what that would feel like. I of course would never want that, but felt like that would be the hardest thing for me or anyone to have to overcome. To accept that the people that brought you into this world would one day go. My dad was my best friend and so when he passed away in 2021 I couldn’t believe it. I don’t know how to really explain but it felt right. I love him to death and miss him dearly, but in some weird way knew it was gonna happen, and that i would have to learn how to grow up and figure life out without the closest person to me. I can say almost 3 years after that I still have no idea, but I can feel his presence and has brought me closer to God and what really matters the time we have on this earth. I see things very differently. its made me realize life is short, and that as much as you think is in your hands..anything can happen both good or bad, so don’t put too much expectations on anything.

We’d love to hear about how you met your business partner.

I am currently working on a film with Damian Overton. Whats crazy is that its been 2 years now since he added me to the project, yet we have yet to actually meet in person. We actually call him Charlie from Charlies Angels becuase nobody has actually never formally met him in person. My friend Evan Evagora is one of the leads in the film, and knew I am an actor too, asked if I’d be interested in reading for one of the characters. I said absolutely and have been tied to it ever since.Since then I have become a producer on it and we have been trying day and night ways to get the movie made. Whats so beautiful about the process, is the amount of hands on the project that are taking there time to get closer to making this film a reality. So privileged to be apart of this because Its every actors dream to be apart of a collective like this. Its so hard to do things by yourself, and I think even harder to get a lot of people interested in the same thing and then work together to execute, but were doing it. Again the most amazing apart about it is having social media to have connected us all together. We dont have to all be in the same place to get this project made.

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