Sam Rockwell recalls how childhood 'chaos' made him a successful actor
Thanks to his parents, Rockwell knew that he wanted to be an actor at a young age. When he was five years old, his parents separated and he went to live with his father in San Francisco. He spent every summer with his mom in New York, and when he was around 10, his mother, Penny Hess, asked him to do a play with her.
Sam Rockwell appears on "Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist" and talks about his role in "American Buffalo."Once he graduated from high school, Rockwell decided to try his hand at an acting career. He honed his craft by training with William Esper at his acting studio and moved to New York to be in the business full-time.
But after watching his parents struggle for years, he knew that making it big wasn't going to be easy. His mom used to go on auditions while working in a restaurant and singing telegrams."I worked in restaurants and stuff. So, yeah, I saw that firsthand," he said of the grind."And my dad had to get a real job. He couldn’t make a living as an actor.""That would pay the rent for the summer sometimes and sometimes pay for acting school," he said.
Things didn't really start looking up for Rockwell until he appeared in 2002's"Confessions of a Dangerous Mind." Although he was"making a living" for himself before that, he said that playing Chuck Barris was really when people started to notice him.Now, Rockwell is bringing down the house as Teach in a revival of David Mamet's play"American Buffalo," where he stars alongside Darren Criss and Laurence Fishbourne.
"It’s like you’re riding a surfboard, I guess, waiting for a wave... you just have to go with it," Rockwell continued."I think the best plays kinda take you for the ride. And if you think you’re controlling it, you’re mistaken. It’s taken you."
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