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David A. Jackson Raleigh,NC
My name is David A Jackson and I was born in Tampa, FL. I currently live in Raleigh, NC with my wife and 5 year old daughter. I’ve been living here for 6 years now and it’s a nice place to raise a family but Florida will always be home to me. I’m an actor/writer but my main job is working with adults under the autism spectrum. As an actor I get the opportunity to play different roles that’s not me which is fun. It gives me the chance to be someone I’m not for a small amount of time. I’ve played roles as a police officer, gangster, abuser, and a drug dealer and I’m not any of those people. But playing those roles allowed me to be in the mindframe of that type of person and it can be fun but I also had to learn how to shut it off once the camera stopped rolling. As far as writing I’ve only been writing for the past few years and it gives me the opportunity to create characters that I want too see. My wife and I are going on a cruise in June with probably close to 100 people from different states. Many of them are YouTube who have their own channel with many subscribers. One of my close childhood friends is the one who put it all together. It’s called The Mete and I Cruise. He told me he wanted to shoot a movie on the cruise but he didn’t know how to begin to write it. So last year I wrote a short 15-20 minute film that we will be
filming while on the cruise. It’s a comedy about a guy who girlfriend breaks up with him a few months before they get on the cruise. He decides to go on the cruise anyway but only to find that his ex is on the cruise but with her new boyfriend. I’ve also been working on a horror series and I was asked to write another feature film so right now my hands are full with writing. I love to entertain and it’s something I’ve done for a while now. Acting gives me the freedom to create and I really love that. I have a passion for it and it allows me to challenge myself to create different characters that I never realized I could become. For instance I played an abuser in an independent film called “Standing Firm” this movie can be watched on YouTube. But my character absued his wife mentally and physically and is nothing like who I am in real life. This was a challenge for me and I felt like I did my job in that role. We had an movie premiere after we were done filming and I had several people come up to me and say they hated me in the film but after talking to me in person they saw a different person. I knew I had done my job as an actor and that’s why I do what I do. To be honest my journey in acting began way before I thought about being an actor.
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