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lucas
“For me, I saw a bunch of my friends acting and I was like that
looks easy. I tried it and it wasn’t actually easy. However, you do
your lines, you overcome your stage fright, and you just kind
of enjoy it. The characters I played were simple characters that
I kind of identified with, so it was more of me just being told
what to say and less like acting. It was just me whether I was
playing like an older version of myself or just me running with a
sword. My favorite role was Teddy in Arsenic and Old Lace. I was
basically a middle aged man-child who believed he was Teddy
Roosevelt. He was the character that I ran around using a sword.
Pursuing acting at LSU would be out of my league though. I can
barely handle my time right now with my studies. I’m going for
chemical engineering. I knew I wanted to do something with
science and to be a STEM major. Why else would you go to
college? Out of all of the sciences, chemistry spoke to me more.
It’s kind of like the magic of science. You have a bunch of stuff
that happens and it then makes other things happen. If you
don’t know chemistry and you see chemical experiments, it’s
just magic!”