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Do you ever imagine what your younger self would have made of what you’re doing now? I wouldn’t have been able to believe it. I was just thinking about this recently, not about acting, but it’s coming up on ten years that I’ve lived in New York. When I first moved to New York I had two big sea bags and they were just filled with clothes. I was living in Hoboken, New Jersey, in my uncle’s closet. He was living on the top floor of a house that didn’t have a kitchen. I stayed in his closet because that was the largest space on the ground to sleep. I stayed there for a couple of weeks until I found a room to rent from someone on Craigslist. I was walking to all the restaurants in that area, thinking, ‘I’ll just get a job and be a waiter and start school.’ I now have a really great group of friends and I get to make a living doing what I love to do and I get to travel, which is like a huge thing. I can’t imagine myself getting to go to Taiwan being from Mishawaka, Indiana.

Sigh. We will never see the likes of five-Adam-Driver-films-and-a-Broadway-play 2019 again? Let us take a moment to appreciate that we were alive in this halcyon year. Yes, everything else on planet earth turned to shit but we had lorge tol boy Adam Driver to gently guide us through the hellscape, every step of the way. Whether he was tango-dancing, Sondheim-singing, tiny-robe-wearing, paper-shuffling, lightsaber-grabbing or killing zombies with a machete, Driver was HERE FOR US this year. He will surely take the whole of 2020 off for a nice lie-down and it is well-deserved.