DA: Tell us, how did you first discover acting? JDG:

I don’t really know if there was an actual noted moment in my life where I discovered acting. I think that I’ve just always been acting. Since I was a toddler, I would dress up in costumes and stand in front of my mirror and do scenes and voices. The defining moment though, was when I was eight years old and I found myself on the Magicopolis Stage in a musical called “Anything Goes” that I was acting in as Sir Evelyn Oakley with the Adderley School. I remember the feeling of the audience and the freedom and liberation that I had finally felt. Right then and there I knew that there was nothing else that I wanted to do more for the rest of my life than this.

Emotionality being displayed in real and raw way is key to a good script. Also, a unique perspective and overall plot is important to me. Most of all, the dialogue needs to be believable. The dialogue carries a lot of the movie’s message, but without considering the pressure of that, the script should be densely devoted to making the story feel true to life even if it’s something fictional.

Absolutely. I’d love to direct. It’s an aspiration of mine to direct something that I wrote.

I’ve definitely learned a lot about myself and my capabilities as an actor since my first time acting in front of a camera. I think that now I have more of an insight on what being a truly good actor is. It’s about full commitment to the art of it and applying yourself to your highest potential.

I have a few coming up but only two of them aren’t confidential. We all know about “Shazam! Fury of the Gods,” I think, and of course there’s “Don’t Tell A Soul.” I have a lot brewing right now which I’m so grateful for, but “Shazam! Fury of the Gods” is bound to be released in 2023.