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The other is that everything I might do or experience from that moment on, no matter what it involved or how it looked, could end up part of the path to my dream. There was no contradiction and, more importantly, the former was no longer evidence that the latter was untrue. That I wasn’t performing, wasn’t training, was barely supporting myself in a place where there appeared little to no opportunity for advancing my career was suddenly simultaneously true along with being a successful actress. One is that the truth suddenly got bigger. In the moment, in my friend’s apartment, two particular things struck me.
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It’s possible there is no more radical an idea. Just like Lloyd was the Green Ninja before he, or anyone else, knew it. To get this straight, I was the me I was becoming before I had become it. I could actually feel the synapses reorganizing themselves in my brain. “You’re the successful actress when she was young, living in Paris, without opportunity, and scared about her career,” he answered. By what stretch of the imagination could a woman who’d not yet made a dime acting and who hadn’t performed in over a year be called a “successful actress?” It actually felt insulting to be called a successful actress given the life I was living. “What are you talking about?!” I demanded indignantly. And he said, “You already are that successful actress.” One afternoon, sitting in his lovely apartment in the Marais, overlooking the rooftops of old Paris, I shared my deep anxiety over my seemingly hopeless dream. He was older than I with significant success under his belt and a load more life experience. Well I had a great friend in Paris, an American man I’d met in France, who was Head Show Writer for the then, under-construction Euro Disney. But living as an ex-pat in Paris, working as an au pair, doing exactly no theater, with no obvious access to theater work, I just couldn’t see how those dreams would come true. I wanted so much to perform, to do good work on the stage and be a successful actress. Once there, it took almost a year to find an appropriate training company and in the months before I did, I was pretty distraught about my career.
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But since participation at the lab was heavily restricted, I had to pick somewhere else to study and for mostly imagined reasons, I chose Paris. It wasn’t entirely foolish the founder of the style was Polish and ran a theater lab in Italy. I wanted to study theater in a particular style and, based on no actual research, decided I could find that style only in Europe. When I was in my early 20s, right after graduating from college, I moved to Paris, France. I don’t think Aidan knew how profound a statement he’d just made. Well, the other day in the car, we were discussing the Green Ninja (we discuss the Green Ninja A LOT), and my husband, Dean, said something about “before he was the Green Ninja.” Aidan immediately corrected him:
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In the end, a younger, pest-y, wannabe bad guy named Lloyd (who happens to be Lord Garmaddon’s son) turns out to be the destined one, and the others become his teachers. The young ninjas become obsessed with the possibility that one of them is destined to become the Green Ninja, and they spend a lot of time trying to prove their worth. Prophecy has said that a Green Ninja will rise up and destroy Lord Garmaddon, a big-time bad guy with four arms. One of the main story lines is the emergence of the Green Ninja (the centerpiece of my son’s new toy). In case you don’t have a young child, Ninjago is an animated television show about a group of young ninjas, and the story lines are steeped in “ancient” codes of wisdom, martial arts, and fantastical heroes and villains, all in the tell-tale square Lego style. He takes it in the car on the way to school.
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It’s a Lego set from the Ninjago series and he’s not put it down since building it.