Ep. 4: Milton Justice
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In this revealing interview, Academy Award winner Milton Justice talks about his full life: from growing up white in the segregated south, in a family where no one showed emotion…to getting his start in Hollywood… to Broadway… to his career as a documentary film producer and celebrated acting teacher. Despite being a gay man at a time when it was widely unacceptable, there were the life-changing lessons he learned along the way: never say no to a new opportunity, pick yourself up and go back to work after a major loss, look to the untethered spirit of Aretha Franklin to help you ‘let yourself go’. Their differences notwithstanding, Gayle and Milton find much common ground in this intimate conversation, as teachers, and students of art and life. “It’s scary and exciting to me that when it comes to something I’ve been doing for 35 years— teaching acting—that I don’t have all the answers. I’m 74 and I’m so pleased that I ended up with a life that constantly allows me to grow and not have it yet. I think that’s cool.” --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/classypodcast/support
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