“I’m pretty good at making time for all of my little crafts. When I heard I had booked this role and was going to take on the lead, I knew I had a chunk of time I needed to basically only focus on this. So I put everything else on hold for a second. Everyone was cool with that. It’s really hard to take on a role, especially when it’s your first movie and you’re not [usually] doing this every day, to focus on multiple things.”