Hi, I'm Billy Beck and I play True.
My name is True.
I became an actor.
It was senior year of college at the University of Georgia.
I was an advertising major.
A buddy of mine said, hey, we both had like one or two electives to fill.
And he was like, I'm taking this intro to acting class.
You should come take it.
And I was like, what do you want me, I'm going to get up and act and play?
No way.
Forget about it.
Turns out I enjoyed it and thought, hey, I'm going to move out to Los Angeles and pursue
acting.
It was either go to school, more school for advertising, or hey, I'm going to go try acting
while I can.
And that's what I decided to do.
It took me about a year to even get my feet wet to where I was like, okay, I know what
I need to do moving forward, getting an agent.
I'm going to be working on this student film, that student film, this small project, just
start auditioning, getting comfortable with learning acting.
I didn't know anything other than my one intro to acting class in college.
Supplying work, that's always the biggest challenge.
So I equate it like, with photography, I can go out and pick up my camera every day and
go take pictures of stuff.
I can do that.
But with acting, I can work on a script, I can read scripts every day, there's things
I can be doing every day, but in terms of like, I want to go act in something that I
want to act in, that's the challenge.
Because everyone wants to consistently work.
So it's like, if you can consistently work, that's amazing, but there's definitely highs
and lows.
The film starting from scratch is about a real couple that gets bombarded with real
life and are figuring out life together.
Just like these people, in these situations, this is real.
This is what's going on.
True is an escape for Libby's character.
I say escape just because he's completely opposite of James' character and life and
you're like dealing with this guy or this girl and it's just not working.
You tend to jump to like the most opposite thing and that's exactly what happens here.
True makes it easy and makes it difficult.
I read it and I instantly had a connection with it.
Instantly.
Working on the film starting from scratch was a great experience, partly because I knew
James, the director, writer, everything on the film, he pretty much did it all.
Character, main character.
We find this beautiful location to shoot in for True's house and it's this beautiful
deck that overlooks these Hollywood Hills and it's perfect.
The only catch is like the owner of the house is like we don't want you filming inside.
You can film out on the deck outside but you can use the bathroom if you guys need to but
we don't want anyone really inside.
So we had to kind of change the script up a little bit.
We need you to just come up with a few lines to kind of introduce us to your home and then
we'll reveal that you're looking out on this beautiful view on this deck.
So that was a lot of fun because it was like immediately like hey okay I get to, I'm gonna
get to improv here, these opening beats of this whole scene, like I'm gonna set the tone
for this.
Put the last screw in this deck that I understood the Hermit Crab story.
This is my river, my upstream and I'm just a salmon.
I find myself grounded up here in the air.
When I'm surrounded by these hills cocooned by the sky I realize the plight of the Hermit
Crab isn't really applied at all.
It's like a snake shedding its skin, rubbing its belly way up here.
Not even realizing that it'll never be a butterfly.
Beautiful.
You must drink it in.
I'm here trying to make my friend James who's the director and writer and all this other
stuff and I'm just trying to make him laugh as a friend and that's what the kind of stuff
you get to do on films like this and that's why it was a lot of fun.
It's on the fingertips of your own expectation, like a warrior in battle.
It is only then that you will truly rise below the floor.
This is one of the first times that this was like my role, it was like Billy do whatever
you want.
It happened, it's kind of like that's when things got really exciting and then you show
up to set and it's like okay give us more, give us this, do whatever you want and it's
kind of like wow okay, we're really going to run with this thing so that to me was,
that was one of the most fun things about this whole process.
Thanks for watching guys, I'm Billy Beck, I play true and started from scratch and you
need to see this movie.
