Name: Contorting His Body to Extreme Degrees
Uploaded: 2018-08-16T07:31:15.000Z
Duration: 3 min 25 s
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- To me, walking upside down on all fours

It's not scary or frightening to me in the least.

But not just a little bit flexible, I'm really flexible.

Little did I know that this ability was, in fact,

the talent that would change my life completely.

I'm Troy James, and I'm a creature actor.

that move in ways that make the audience squirm.

my legs, my arms, my shoulders, my fingers-

So if you need an alien, a demon, or a nonhuman creature

that doesn't move in the ways that normal human people do,

It looks like what I do is extremely painful.

I don't know why I am as flexible as I am.

who can bend his arms and legs the way I do.

And I remember being very embarrassed and I hid it away

because what makes you different when you're growing up

the ride was down for some reason or another,

and I thought, why don't I show them what I can do?

making really cool shapes with my body, and it was a hit.

I'd gotten that sort of positive reaction from other people,

was anything more than a really cool party trick.

My friend put his camera up to me and said,

and all of a sudden, my phone started ringing.

I started getting calls to be cast in TV shows,

If you had told me a year ago, I was going to be an actor,

people have told me that it's not just the way

I move my body that's effective, it's the acting behind it.

Coming from a place where you were ostracized

as I was as a child, I can bring that out as a creature.

It's interesting that something that I hid for so long

is now taking me places that I never imagined I would go.

that you're passionate about that makes you happy,