The multi-hyphenate talks landing a dream role in Elvis and what's next for his acting career.
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’s Model of the Year Award. There, he delivered a speech the director Baz Luhrmann found so moving, he felt compelled to introduce himself to the 24-year-old. Little did he know it at the time, but Luhrmann didn’t just want to pay him a compliment. He was seeing if his hunch that Mason could be the perfect Little Richard inheld up. And Mason had what turned out to be the perfect answer when Luhrmann asked if he could sing.
Less than 24 hours later, when Luhrmann saw Mason had inherited some of the family talent for himself, he offered him the role—never mind that the model had no professional acting experience whatsoever. “I was just stunned,” Mason says. But he knew he could do it: He’d actually studied acting, at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in Los Angeles, before pivoting to modeling to pay the bills. He ended up falling in love with the latter, and the industry has most definitely loved him back.
Born in Phoenix, Arizona, Mason grew up “everywhere;” his father’s career as a professional basketball player took him across the globe. Wherever he went, he was known for his dancing skills . They eventually earned him a spot on the BET Awards stage next to Diddy in 2015; a modeling scout took note. Meanwhile, his knack for thirst traps was gaining him enough attention for another scout to reach out, asking Mason whether he wanted to appear in Kanye West’s.
Mason plans to continue acting, and while he can’t talk about it yet, he already has something else in the works. For now, though, he’s getting back to—and, of course, to modeling. In fact, he’s jetting off to Paris Fashion Week the very next day. After all this time, the industry still manages to surprise him: The brand he’ll walk for, Casablanca, recently cast him in a campaign opposite Nicolas Cage. Mason is amused to report that the actor didn’t need any tips.
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