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...Ashong, on the other hand, is animated, dramatic and full of nervous energy when he talks about the play, which focuses on "issues of identity for Africans and African-Americans." He gives mock announcements and reviews of the musical and imitates crowd noise to play up the excitement...
...hard to believe that a soon-to-be movie star would give so much energy to a senior thesis. But being in "Amistad" has both humbled and encouraged Ashong, made him focus on his current project even as it has whet his appetite for the future...
Sure, he knows there will soon be more than a few people who will start to recognize him around town. (Especially after the world has seen him on the big screen wearing nothing but a loin cloth.) But Ashong definitively resists the label of "movie star," and not just because he's modest...
...Still, Ashong says the "Amistad" experience has made him more confident in his decision to pursue a career in the arts, especially when so many people he knew seemed to ending up travelling the tried and true career paths...
...Ashong says that when he tells people he wants to be a professional actor, the first thing they say is, "You wasted how much money to come to Harvard?" Still, he points out there is a surprising number of graduates working in the professional arts, and he was lucky enough to find some Harvard contacts who could help...