boot camp

“A lot of the teammates, they think my dad is crazy because our summer practices are like boot camp,” he said.

“It was theater boot camp. I was helping somebody who was coming to the theater having never been on stage before in a two-hander. Two-handers are not easy.”

“When else do you get an opportunity to basically have a boot camp for acting on an actual TV set?” he says.

He did, impressing the judges more in 2010, and was put together with four other solo hopefuls at the boot camp stage and One Direction were born.

In 2016, he was arrested for selling drugs and served six months in a correctional boot camp.