Chandler Kinney

thumb Chandler Kinney (born August 3, 2000) is an American actress and singer. Quotes I had a really sweet day. I just had breakfast with my mom, and then one of my best friends, Meg Donnelly, who I did the ‘Z-O-M-B-I-E-S’ movies with, took me to a pottery session. I had never done that before, and I really enjoyed it. I have always been a big birthday girl. It might just be the Leo in me. I tend to go all out. I am a Disney girl through and through; even before I worked for the mouse. In recent years, I have gone to Disneyland. This birthday was such a wonderful experience because pottery is an art form that forces you to be so present. There’s this beautiful dichotomy between being very forceful and rough with the clay by centring and moving it, but also being very delicate. One wrong move can completely change your piece of art. In recent years, the birthday buzz slips into the birthday blues. Doing something like pottery forces me to slow down, sit in whatever I’m feeling, and meet myself where I am. It’s very meditative. My mom was the one in the driver’s seat — literally and metaphorically. I talk about love for entertainment before belief because that belief came from her first. I really love to tell stories, dance, and act, but she saw something in me. She believed enough to drive me 60 miles one way, six days a week, to a dance studio. That got me proper training, which naturally progressed into my acting career as I auditioned via that studio. She was the one taking me to auditions, training, meetings, and appointments. The order was tall. This is such a demanding industry, and she had to see something in me to justify compromising so much of her life to support me. After my very first project, I had to move into a different section of the industry with press and promotion. I was so confused. When you become an actor, you only ever really take acting classes and focus on the craft. No one teaches you how to walk a red carpet, talk to journalists, or pose. Starting that at such a young age felt unnatural, and I’m so clunky. I look back at some early photos and just scratch my head. As a kid, I used to ask my mom, ‘Can you enroll me in red carpet classes?’ It is required to formulate educated answers about the project. I was like, ‘I don’t know what to say about it. I just did it, and that was what I was hired to do.’ And people are calling your name, and you have to figure out where to look. I don’t want to monologue about it because it is not that relatable, but what is relatable is being thrown into the deep end and just paddling for your life, hoping that no one notices you’re drowning. In acting, there’s a weird cognitive dissonance because you are trusted with so much, but you’re like, ‘I have so little preparation for this.’ That’s why many actors have impostor syndrome. They’re viewed on such a high level, but it’s like, ‘Wait, no, I just stumbled into this.’ That is to say, there is some validity to faking it until you make it. From the outside looking in, people might think I have it all together because I’m posing right on a carpet, but that is so not representative of what’s going on in my head. I’m really excited for people to see more of that in season two, because you get more context about what’s going on outside of the high school hallways. In season two, you get to see more highs for her, which I’m excited about. A lot of those walls get broken down. interview | chandler kinney External links Category:Actresses from California Category:Women singers from the United States Category:Living people Category:2000 births Category:Women born in the 2000s Category:African Americans