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When he was in the third grade, O’Neil Thomas scored what was possibly the most important acting role of his life: one of the three kings in his school’s Christmas play.
“I didn’t have any lines,” he says. “I just delivered the myrrh. And I was like, ‘Oh my god. That was crazy.'”
From then on, he was hooked. He went to performing arts high school, and as soon as he graduated, moved to New York City and started taking “as many classes as possible,” he says. “I landed my agent, my manager, and I’ve been able to book some cool gigs.”
Then Covid hit, and the acting world shut down. So, Thomas, who’d also always had a fascination with social media,...
When he was in the third grade, O’Neil Thomas scored what was possibly the most important acting role of his life: one of the three kings in his school’s Christmas play.
“I didn’t have any lines,” he says. “I just delivered the myrrh. And I was like, ‘Oh my god. That was crazy.'”
From then on, he was hooked. He went to performing arts high school, and as soon as he graduated, moved to New York City and started taking “as many classes as possible,” he says. “I landed my agent, my manager, and I’ve been able to book some cool gigs.”
Then Covid hit, and the acting world shut down. So, Thomas, who’d also always had a fascination with social media,...
- 5/8/2024
- by James Hale
- Tubefilter.com
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