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something for a long time, and a month will pass by, and I’ll ask, ‘how can I make this bet- ter?' It’s pivotal to take that re- covery time. If I rushed into it, I wouldn’t have the mindset that I have now. For a character, you need that. For music, you espe- cially need that. When you’re playing a character, you are play- ing someone else. I’m trying to put myself in someone else’s shoes and be them.With my mu- sic, it’s my entire identity.” In a sense, Angel's de fac- to acting school was being sur- rounded by film greats. In Shaz- am! Fury of the Gods , he is acting alongside icons Helen Mirren and Lucy Liu. Completely trans- fixed, he hungers for learning. “There’s always something to learn from those around you. Be- ing on set with Zach, Lucy, Hel- en, my peers, I am constantly ob- serving and listening,” he admits. One’s twenties are chron- icled as a time where we must grapple with the in-between, not yet the fully formed blue- print of the adult we drafted up in our late teens…but not hand-in-hand with naiveté any- more, either. In a sense, the ear- ly twenties are the storm itself. Angel is amidst it all, but he embraces the unknowingness, analogous to his vibrant smile that reads Bring it on, I’m just getting started.
and he is now helming a production company, even branching off deeper into creating music. If you search ‘Asher Angel’ on YouTube, you’ll find music videos of a boy whose music was not yet fully lived in. He reminisces, “Now that I’m older, I’ve experienced things. Before it was hard because I didn’t have a say in my music because I was so young. Now, I get to make the music I want to make. I love it even more because of that. I’m staying true to myself. It connects with me and I’m hoping it connects with the rest of the world,” he says. Despite the seeming effortlessness of Angel’s career thus far, he does wrestle with the whis- pers of forced creative output. His 2019 hit “One Thought Away” found immediate traction on YouTube, but since then, he has yet to release new music. Angel says that for him, the calm lies in sitting and ruminating with a character or a song like a slow-burn. Never sacrificing industry urgency over quality. And most importantly, remaining true to himself. “The project that I’ve been working on, I’ve been sitting with for some time,” he says. “It’s funny because you sit with
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