From Boxer to Actor: Sean Kerrigan’s Inspiring Journey | Sean Carrigan DSH #1337

these movies and uh i think she knew at that point that i wanted to be an actor but you know

when i was in high school i had these athletic goals that i wanted to try to hit i wanted to

go to division one program wrestling division you know division one try to be an all-american

and then i also wanted to have have an amateur career more of an amateur career and then turn

pro and fight professionally.

All right, guys.

Fellow Sean here today.

Got an actor and a new release, right?

Grace Point.

That's right.

Grace Point.

Yeah.

It's out already.

It's out on Amazon and Apple TV.

I love it, man.

And so.

Was that your most recent film?

Yeah.

Yo, actually, I just shot something called Demonetize.

It's coming out in April. But yeah, Grace Point.
You know, we've been working, Rory Karp, the guy who directed it, he's been working on this film, getting this film together for a long time. And we got a great cast and we shot it a few years ago and it's finally coming out and, you know, and we're happy it's getting the attention it deserves.
Yeah. It must be tough these days to make a top selling movie, right? But, you know, I think so.
I mean, you know, it's a tough time. You know, a lot going on with, you know, streaming and, you know, movies.
It's just, you know, and plus there's like so many distractions in the world. You know what I mean? So it's hard to get people to sit down for a whole film.
But, you know, our movie's good and, you know, hopefully people watch it. Yeah.
Yeah. I feel like there's a power shift towards the streaming platforms now.
It seems like they're having a lot of power. Yeah, they are.
I mean, you know, uh, that's, that's the way the world goes, you know, I mean, it's different convenience. Cause I've had a lot of, uh, documentary filmmakers on the podcast and they have numerous stories of how they can't even get on Netflix cause they said certain things in the documentary.
Oh, right. Yeah.
I mean, look, you know, at the end of the day, um, you know, people just trying to get their stuff made and get it seen. And, you know, I think there's, I think the, the, the platform has gone gotten bigger for that, but now it's just getting flooded.
And so, you know, people, you know, and, and I don't know what, you know what sponsorships people have with stuff on their site and why they won't air movies and stuff like that. I'm just an actor.
Yeah. It's cool, though.
You're seeing alternative routes. Andrew Schultz, who's a comedian, ended up launching a special on his own site and it crushed it.
Yeah. So there's other's super funny yeah i love that guy have you seen him in a performance live performance uh i haven't seen andrew schultz but i you know i bounce around the comedy store quite a bit and you know i see see a lot of guys you know yeah theo vaughn's crushing her now shout out to theo there's some good comedians these days man it's a new era yeah dean del rey uh dean de re, he does a lot of work with, uh, Bill Burr.
You know, I'm a big fan of Dean Del Rey. Um, and Bill Burr is obviously, you know, the king.
Yeah. It's hard to beat that, man.
Yeah. I want to talk about your boxing career.
So you said you started at 16. So, um, yeah, man, I was a little growing up and, uh, you know, my parents got divorced when I was really young.
So I moved down to Miami, Florida and started living down there with my mom. And I would go up and visit my dad all the time up in, uh, DC, live right outside DC, Northern Virginia.
And he'd start training fighters. And that's when, um, you know, I just kind of fell in love with it, watched him, you know, train fighters.
I was around a gym and, you know, being that I was little, you know, I just watched him you know train fighters I was around a gym and you know being that I was little you know I just like you know I had moments when I was a kid where I felt like powerless and I wanted to have I wanted to have a sense of uh power and being able to defend myself and stand up to people and you know being around a boxing gym seemed like the way to go and so my dad my dad was all about you know being irish and you know boxer and fighting irish yeah that's it and so my me and my brothers my dad trained me and my brothers and so i would spend all my summers and winters up there and and then um you know eventually i lived up there after college and um and that's when i like you know i had my a lot of my amateur fights. I've went all over the country.
My dad would like every other weekend, we'd like be going off somewhere. He would find fights that were going off and in Roanoke or, you know, West Virginia or, you know, up in New Jersey, he would just find fights for, for all of us to go to.
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I mean, it was just like my dad was always trying to get his son's fights. Wow.
Yeah. I mean, when we were really young, I've even got a picture of it.
My brother, my brother's three and a half years older than me and my dad laced this up when i was like nine my brother was 12 and he's he's like about the they caught the photo right as he's about to land a right hand right on my head man yeah so you were stopping with your brother yeah yeah but that's one thing my dad like he loved like you know putting gloves on the kids and we'd all like get out in the yard and get after it so he had some tough love to him that's i think that's i mean that's what you know when he was when he was coming up uh he grew up in alcoa tennessee and you know his uncles were prize fighters and and and they would they would lace up all the cousins and uh put gloves on them and then they'd all go to battle out in the backyard. And my dad was like, he was one of the better ones.
Yeah, that's how it was back in the day, man. My dad grew up on a farm and he was scrabbing all the time.
Yeah, yeah. You could lay hands on people in school even back then, but now you get immediately suspended.
Yeah, I think there's a lot of fight stories back then. Yeah.
Different era. Now people fight online.
Cyberbullying or whatever. Yeah.
It's a much different era, but at the same time, mental health's worse. So you kind of start to wonder like which one was better.
Yeah. I mean, it's a toss up.
Yeah. Would you rather get physically beat up or mentally assaulted on the internet, I guess? I'll take an ass-kicking.
Good old ass-kicking. Yeah, I'll take a physical ass-kicking, man.
Man, so that was kind of your destiny from a young age then, fighting. Well, look, man, I wasn't very good.
It's interesting because I was real small and I wanted to wrestle and box. Those are my two sports.
And I started out wrestling in high school and I just, I was terrible. I wasn't very good.
I was weak. I was small.
And I think I started at 119 my, my, wow, my sophomore year. And then I went up to 130 my junior year.
I never even made it to the regional tournament in Dade County. And so I didn't even make it to regions, man, regionals.
And right before my senior year, I wrestled freestyle, and then I went off to a summer camp yeah went to jay robinson intensive uh wrestling camp in minnesota university of minnesota before my senior year in high school and i wrestled with the guy uh who was a state runner-up in in michigan i wrestled with him every day for 28 days and it was just me and him became pals and then and then you just wrestled they had you working out at J-Rob. They had you wrestling a couple times a day.
Then you were doing runs in the morning. You were doing weightlifting.
And then they had you write out all your goals. I came back my senior year and just destroying everybody.
And one of the best wrestlers in Florida my senior year. So I had a good senior year had a good senior year, but I'd never even wrestled.

I'd never even wrestled

in a regional tournament.

And,

and,

you know,

went to state championships,

didn't do as well as I wanted to,

but,

you know,

got to,

got to go off to college

and I wrestled D1 in college.

Amazing.

That's a great story

of just being in the right environment,

right?

Because you had to feel inside you.

You just needed someone to help

bring that out.

Yeah.

And,

you know,

and that,

that camp,

Jay Robinson intensive camp was,

you know,

they,

we had a,

This week. right? Because you had to feel inside you.
You just needed someone to help bring that out. Yeah.
And, you know, in that, that camp, Jay Robinson intensive camp was, you know, they, we had a, we had a shirt that, that we would all wear said, I'm going to heaven because I've been through hell. Jay Robinson intensive camp.
I love it. And so I don't know what I did with that shirt, but I wish I could find it.
Yeah. That sounds like a legendary shirt.
I love that quote though. Yeah.
You got to go through some tough stuff if you want to make it to the top you do and and what was great about that that that camp was you know you know they had us writing out goals and just like in and just doing things that you know pushing you farther than you realized you could go and so i came back that year my senior year and and pre-season tournaments i would wrestle 145 and 152. I'd go in, I'd like,

I'd register in two weight classes and then I'd be in the finals in both. And that's hard to do.
Yeah. And so, um, yeah, man.
So that was, uh, you know, it was, uh, it was, it was a good,

it was a good, it was a good career, you know, in, in high school and, and, you know, I did something.

That's why I love the mental side of sports actually, which why i don't know if you watch basketball but i think phil jackson's the goat yeah because he just had the mental side of the sport on lock yeah make the players meditate write out goals like you're saying yeah um i think that's kind of what separates the the best athletes from like everyone else the mental side you know man i think i i I think, I think you're right. Um, it's just, it's just a matter of, of just working, working, working for me, you know, I've always kind of fell on my face quite a bit.
You know, uh, it seems like I, you know, I fall down 10 times before I actually succeed. And, you know, it was the same thing of boxing.
There was a guy in the gym when I was, when I was younger, uh, when I first started, he'd been boxing since he was five years old. And he just, you know, he was just better.
He's just better than me. Cause he'd been boxing so long.
And I was just starting and he would just beat my ass all the time, all the time. dad on the drives you know we'd be driving home and my dad would just be like just keep working just keep working just keep working and he's like one of these days it's going to be like you know a light bulb goes off it's like a window's going to open and all of a sudden you're going to you're going to see you're going to see the punches you're going to see things coming at you and it's just going to like get easier.
He said, you just got to keep working. So I listened to it.
I'd go back to the gym. And again, you know, we, we box, we'd spar,

beat my ass again. And my dad would just say, just keep working, just keep working,

just keep working. You work harder, you work hard.
And so, um, and then next thing, you know,

he was, my dad was right. It was like like all of a sudden one day it was just like you know it's like the window open and i was like oh wait a second i'm like i see everything i like you know i started seeing punches coming at me i was like oh oh no way no way you know and then and then that that guy that that guy um that kid he never, he never beat me after that.

Oh, really?

Yeah.

It was like an overnight thing for you?

Yeah, it was just like my dad said.

It was like, one day, the light went off.

But that comes with hard work.

Yeah.

And it's the same thing in wrestling.

It was just hard work, hard work, hard work.

So I was just lucky to do uh two sports that um that you know that just spoke to me you know and and really gave me a sense of identity because i kind of felt lost most of my high school career until my senior year you felt lost like just overall just felt like unseen you know just uh didn't really have uh a sense of identity that's the thing i love about sports is is working hard at something gives you character and then all of a sudden you know you start having some success and you start to like feel okay this is like i am here i I'm seeing, I'm seeing this hard work pay off. Um, and I, it was valuable for me.
Absolutely. I attribute, uh, I was a track runner in high school and that helped me find myself and learn mental discipline too.
But like, like you, I was, I was lost in high school, man. My identity, I was pretending to be someone I wasn't for sure.
Yeah, it was, it was tough, man I was smaller and I didn't really have the right direction. I found wrestling and boxing and it changed my life.
So you really tied a lot of your identity to your height and size? I think so. I think I did because I felt like everybody was bigger than me.
Was was bigger than me. Um, was that intimidating to you? Yeah.
I think, I think, especially in junior high, junior high was rough. Yeah.
Um, and then ninth and 10th grade, you just, you know, you want to be taken seriously and, um, you know, you, you just, yeah, you know, it was just when you, when you, I attributed, I attributed like being, not being able to like stand up to, being scared. Okay.
I'll give you an example. Give you an example of what I'm saying.
When I was in junior high, there were, there was a big fight, right? Out in the yard. And a couple of my friends were outnumbered.
And a bunch of guys jumped in. And I went to go help, and I froze.
I froze because I was scared. And I felt like I literally couldn't make myself,

because I was scared.

I couldn't make myself go help.

Now, a bunch of other of my friends jumped in,

and they got out of the situation.

But it's still that feeling of being scared and frozen.

I was like, dude, I can't live my life like this.

I don't want to live my life like that.

And that's why I think I turned to wrestling and why I turned to boxing.

And there's nothing like, you know, Rory, my buddy Rory Carp, who's on here,

he's a director, and he said he always wanted to have the one one fight he wanted to know what that's like when you're walking out to you know taking that that walk out to the ring and he wanted to know like you know what that feels like and i wanted to know what that felt like i wanted to know uh that like i can i can I can conquer being scared and frozen. And that's why I did it.
And when you first walk out, that first fight that I had, I fought a guy named Leonard Johnson from Alexander Boxing Club at the Olympia Boxing Club in Falls Church, Virginia, and it was a big smoker event. And I, you know, walking out to that ring was one of the scariest moments of my life because I was like, why am I doing this? Why am I doing this? Why am I doing this? You know, and part of you wants to chicken out.
Yeah. And then I just forced myself.
I was like, you have to, you have to, you chicken out. And then I just forced myself.

I was like, you have to, you have to, you have to.

And then you get in there and then you start mixing it up.

And you're like, all right, I can, I can do this.

I can do this.

And conquering your fears.

And I think that's what it is.

It's, you know, the thing about boxing and wrestling is you learn to conquer your fears learn to like you know to really like stand up and fight for yourself and um you know there's there was an interesting thing that happened in that fight it's my first fight and between so there's a three round you know there's a three rounder and between rounds two and three, you know, me and this guy had been going at it. We had been going at it and I was, I was doing really well.
And Jim Ed Jones, who was my trainer at the time with my dad, Jim Ed Jones said to me in the, in the middle of round two and three, he goes, Hey, this next round, this next round ain't about boxing. This, this next round is about heart.
It's about how much heart you got. You go out there and you give it everything.
This round is about heart. It's about what you got inside.
You get out there and you get it. You take it.
You take it right now. And I've never forgotten that.
Wow. And, uh, and I went out there and just, you know, just, you know, put it on the guy.
And it was one of the greatest moments of my life. And, and I'll never forget that, that, uh, that advice.
Wow. You know, it sounds like a really pivotal moment in your life.
You remembered every single word and like, yeah, yeah I remember him standing there looking at me. Because I was gassed.
I was so gassed. I was exhausted.
And when you have your first fight in the amateurs, you're exhausted. Because you don't know how to pace yourself yet.
Yeah, no. I mean, it's, you know, there's so much adrenaline pumping through you because you're also nervous and scared.
And then you get in there and, you know, it's just, you know, you're probably going at a faster pace than you would, you know, as time goes on. I mean, as the years went on, you know, the fights got easier, you know, you, you manage those emotions better,

but nothing like a, that first, that first match. I love it, man.
Yeah. That's why I love sports and especially fighting sports.
It builds your confidence, right? Yeah. Yeah.
I mean, uh, you know, I was, I was boxing and wrestling way before, uh, MMA became a thing. I kind of missed the MMA window.
Um, but I always, I always loved, uh, you know, feeling like, you know, I could defend it. I can defend the takedown and, you know, also defend myself with my hands.
So it's good life skill to have, you know, you never know when you'll need to throw hands with someone at the bar or something. Yeah.
Yeah. But just that confidence, knowing you can defend yourself, you could defend your girl girl your friends i mean that's really the only reason i i started boxing wrestling is i wanted to be able to defend myself and then i just as the years went on i did it more and more and then my dad was such a proponent of it that you know just ended up having a career longer than i ever anticipated um but that was the the main the main reason i started was just to be able to defend myself yeah did your brother get to the pro level too yeah both my brothers uh uh i've got a bunch of brothers and sisters but two my brothers fought uh my younger brother he he started fighting when he was like you know he was like six wow yeah.
Wow. Yeah.
He was young. Yeah.
He was like,

you know,

he was,

uh, you know,

he just scrapping it out,

just scrapping it out.

You know,

you know,

seeing a little kid spite of that,

at that age is ridiculous.

It's like,

that's looks like the run.

Yeah.

It's super early,

man.

I don't know about,

uh,

but he had tons of fights,

you know,

uh,

had a very long amateur career. Um, my older brother had a, had a amateur career too.
And then he turned pro and, uh, yeah, I think he had like, maybe my, my brother had like maybe four pro fights. Same thing with my younger brother.
Um, uh, and then, you know, but they had my, my little little brother he started boxing at a very young age

fought fought in all kinds of national championship tournaments and did you know did really well for a long time and he was even a better wrestler than he was a boxer um but there's no money in that right no i mean no but uh i mean now it would be mma yeah you know but uh back then he had the most single season wins uh as a freshman wow in his high then he had the most single season wins as a freshman in his high school. He had the most single season wins as a freshman.
And he could have been, he could, I mean, he could have done really, he went to the state championships a couple times and then he just got, you know, he got in a little bit trouble. He followed my other brother was in and out of jail.
Both my brothers have been in and out of jail. Yeah.
They both kind of, you know, I think they were selling drugs at one point and, you know, getting in all kinds of trouble. And then they did some time.
I mean, I get it, man. I was a little weed dealer in college, you know? Yeah.
You're broke. I mean, you got to be bad.
Yeah. they were they were you know they got messed they got

messed up but my my little brother's cleaned himself up pretty well my older brother's doing all right and um but they were actually both of them what's a funny story they were both in fairfax county jail for uh about a year and a half around that time they were both in the jail on different floors

when I was on The Young and the Restless.

And both of them got in fights in the tv rec room over somebody trying to change the channel when i was on the young and the restless both of them at different times and so uh uh that's uh you know that's cool that you could provide them some hope while they were in there

though.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And then,

you know,

my one brother's like,

that's my brother.

It's like,

no,

it ain't.

It's like,

yeah,

it is.

That's my brother.

Yeah.

I love it,

man.

It sounds like you're tight with your brothers.

That's cool.

Yeah.

We're,

we're all really tight with all my brothers and my sisters.

Yeah.

I grew up an only child,

so I can't relate.

But,

um,

when I have kids,

I want them to,

you know,

have siblings.

I think that's important.

Yeah,

it was good.

I mean, you know, um, we came from a rough and tumble family, you know, um, when I have kids, I want them to, you know, have siblings. I think that's important.
Yeah, it was good. I mean, you know, um, we came from a rough and tumble family, you know, um, some of my, my brothers and sisters had, you know, they had, they, they struggled with addiction.
Um, you know, I think that that's why, you know, this movie that we did, Grace Point, it's been so important to me. Um, you know, the, the character, main character struggles with character struggles with addiction.
Then he goes on this journey, and it's about a father and a son, and a son trying to find his father. It's like an inspirational thriller and a heartwarming thriller.
I think that's why I related to the script and why I wanted to do it. And, you know, it sounded like family.
I love that. I think everyone can relate to addiction, whether it's themselves or their family members, right? I saw my dad with alcoholism, that rectum.
Sure. You know, I think there's a, it's a problem everywhere, addiction.
Yeah, it really is. And it's commercialized too.
Like, you know, alcohol, be out, you know, you know, and you know, beer commercials, everything, everything. Drug commercials on every television network, you know? Yeah.
I mean, it's crazy. So easy to get access to this stuff too.
Yeah. You really got to have the right people around you to break you out.
Yeah. I had to break, brother out of a crack house one time.
Damn. Yeah.
Yeah. That's straight out of the movie, The Fighter.
I swear to God. I saw that movie.
I was like, Jesus, man, that was me and my older brother. So those actually exist, those crack houses.
Yeah. He was in some like, you know, some like, like just this worn out house that, you know, everybody went and did drugs at.
And he called me one day and he goes, Hey man, Hey man, you gotta, you gotta come get me, man. These bikers are coming to jump me, man.
These bikers are coming to jump me. And so I was wrestling at George Mason university at the time.
And I, you know, I was there and I was at a, I think I was like, I forget where I was, but, but a couple of my other wrestler buddies were with me. And I said, Hey man, I gotta go.
I gotta go rescue my brother, man. He's at this, this, you know, drug house.
And you know, it's, I, I, I don't know. I just got to go.
And they were like, Hey, we're coming with you. And I was like, yeah, I don't know what I'm walking into, man.
You know? So just, just letting you that. And so they're like, we're coming.
So my buddies, Mark and Ty, you know, they're guys that are wrestling on my wrestling team with me. We went and we got there and we pulled up to this house.
And I go, all right, I don't know how this is going to go. But what I'm going to do is i'm just going to go kick that front door in and start yelling where you know where's michael kerrigan where's toby kerrigan where's he at and so um you guys you know ty you go around the back you can come here you come with me or you get however you want to do so ty went around the back i went in the front you know uh kira was with me i just kicked the door in i was like yeah

where the fuck is michael kerrigan where the fuck is toby kerrigan he also goes by toby that's the name and uh i said where the fuck is he where is he um and i'm like you know people were like oh he's over there he's over there i was like i was like hey hey he said oh hey man hey man and uh i grabbed him, got him of there and then uh you know save him save them i think i don't know and that was your older brother it's my older brother yeah he's he's he's struggled with addiction over the years and so you kind of had to grow up quick then you got to be responsible for your older brother you know he's uh he's uh like i like to say he's my uh he's my older little brother. I love that.
So, but, uh, but he's always, you know, look, we had different moms and, you know, he had, he had a rougher upbringing than I did. Really? And so, you know, same, same thing with my other, uh, older brothers and sisters.
And so I take that into account, you know, uh, you know, it's,

it's, I guess we're, we're a victim of our environment sometimes when we're growing up.

Yeah. And, you know, I, I just, I just try to be as much help to my brothers and sisters as,

as I can. And, you know, families, families meant so much to me over the years

that I'll, I'll do anything for them. I love that, man.
Yeah. Yeah.
Family's important for sure. I saw, so I grew up mixed.
I'm half Irish, uh, half Asian. So it's such a different lifestyle with family on the two sides.
So I got to experience both, you know? Wow. So now I kind of know what the best of each and I'm going to have a good one of these days you know yeah are you gonna have kids yeah and i didn't want kids when i was younger but now i do yeah you know i uh i just i don't know should i talk about i just uh i just my my girl and i we decided to have kids oh nice and so and we just found out out that we're having twins.
Dude, congrats. Yeah.
And I called it too. I called it, by the way.
Two for one, baby. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I told her, I actually told her before. I was like, hey, listen, we need two for one.
I'm not getting any younger. You manifest.
Yeah. And so, so we're pretty excited about that.
That's cool, man. You held off.
Yeah. You know, what was the deciding moment to have them? When I met her.
Wow. I just, I hadn't met anyone that checked all the boxes like that for me.
And it made me, she's such a good mom. She has two kids from previous marriage.
And she's just the most wonderful person and mother. That's a good ass.
And I just met her at the right time. And we'd known each other for a long time, but we never really started dating until back in May.
Is she an actress as well? No, no. She's a government worker.
She runs the water department over in the city of Oxnard. Total opposite personality, it sounds like.
Yeah. I always tease her tease her i'm like you like the movie chinatown you run the water sometimes you need that balance man the opposites attract like it's uh it's cool it's uh she's but she's amazing and she's super supportive with my uh my career and um so i'm just lucky i love that man i want to hear about your transition to acting because that's not an easy easy space to penetrate right getting acting gigs no uh you know man uh when i

was a kid i knew i wanted to be an actor and um you know i one of my favorite movies is star wars

you know classic yeah and you know then return of the jedi came out and or star empire strikes

back and Return of the Jedi and like, you know,

you know classic yeah and you know then return of the jedi came out and or star empire strikes back and return of the jedi and like you know when i was a kid i'd see these movies and i'd like come home and i'd just like act them out to my mom and then you know luke skywalker did this then onslaught did this and my poor mom you know she's like you know i'm working all day she's like sitting there trying to like listen to me describe all of these movies. And, uh, I think she knew at that point that I wanted to be an actor.
Um, but you know, when I was in high school, I had, you know, especially after, um, you know, my, especially my senior year, it was like, you know, going into my senior year, I had, I had these athletic goals that I wanted to try to hit. I wanted to, I wanted to go to, uh, you know, a division one program, wrestling division, you know, division one, try to be an all American.
And then I also wanted to have, uh, have an amateur career, more of an amateur career and then turn pro and fight professionally for a couple of years. I only wanted to have like, my goal was to have like five pro fights.
I ended up having eight. And so to do those things.
I used to tell people in my senior year, I was in drama my senior year. I used to tell people in my class, I'd be like, I'm going to go to college.
I'm going to try to be an All-American in wrestling. I'm going to have a brief pro career in boxing and then i'm gonna become an actor wow and so you called it so so like people like uh you know they'd be like you're gonna do what you're gonna do what oh and then you're gonna do what yeah okay pal you know that's not the path that everybody takes yeah um but i was just i had it I had it in my mind.
And so when I, but I was just, I had it, I had it in my mind. Uh, and so when I, when I was boxing, I was by, you know, I turned pro in 98 and I was, you know, fought professionally until April 2000.
And, uh, after that fight, I, I, I got cast in a UPN pilot that was shooting in Baltimore and I got my SAG card from it. And so, uh, once I got my SAG card, I was like, all right, well, I'm going to go to, I'm going to go to New York.
I'm going to go to LA. I'm going to give up, give up my, my, my boxing career.
It's time. It's time, you know? And, uh, my dad, my, he was pissed, right? Oh, he was so mad.
He hey man you're gonna be you're gonna be driving you're gonna be driving cabs the rest of your life i go hey pop i'll show you that one one of these days you're gonna see me on the big screen he's like hey he's like i'll be dead and gone before that ever happens and then uh i went off i went off to new york i was having no luck uh up in new york. I was bouncing at the China Club in New York for like six months, having no luck.
And then I ran into Michael Rappaport and he goes, he was at the club and I go, hey man, when you made it in film or when you made it in acting, did you make it here in New York or did you make it in LA? He goes, what kind of acting do you want to do? You want to do TV and film?

And I go, yeah.

He goes, then you got to go to LA, man.

And so next thing you know,

I was in my truck driving out to LA

and I'd been here for 24 years.

Wow, shout out to Michael.

Yeah.

Does he know that story, by the way?

No, I mean, I've never ran into him.

I'm going to let him know.

He's coming on the podcast.

Is that right?

Yeah, I'll tell him about it.

Yeah, that's cool, man. And so, yeah, I love that guy.
I'm going to let him know. He's coming on the podcast.
Is that right? Yeah. I'll tell him about it.
Yeah. That's cool, man.

And so, uh, yeah, I love that guy.

I love it.

He's hilarious.

Yeah.

And, and he's a great actor.

And, and, uh, he said that to me right there.

And I was, I was bouncing at the China club and I was like, you know, and he, and cause

I, he, and he was cool too.

Cause as he was walking out, I was like, Hey man, you mind if I asked you something, you

know?

And, and, uh, he was, he was very forthcoming, man.

He was a good dude. And, anyway so fast forward years later i'm i'm sitting with my dad we're at we're at a dc film festival we're about to watch this movie i did on the big screen and he and my old man sitting right next to me and i go hey hey pop remember how you said that uh you'd be dead and gone before you saw me on the big screen? Guess what? You're about to watch me on the big screen.

He's like, you son of a bitch.

You remember everything.

God damn it.

And so it was good.

Sometimes your biggest haters are your biggest motivators.

Yeah, he became one of my biggest fans, though.

He was great.

Shout out to my mother.

You know, skeptical at first, you know, coming from China.

Academics is everything.

Education, getting good grades.

That's how she escaped poverty.

So why not apply it to me? But different path, you know? Sure. So we used to butt heads all the time about it.
But now she watches every single episode. She's like my biggest fan.
Of course. Yeah.
It's funny how that works. My dad at the end of, you know, in his older years, he would hang out.
He would hang out at like the Moose Lodge and the American Legion. And he'd be like hanging out with all these you know like be hanging out with different women and stuff and he and all of a sudden i get a call and he and i go hey what's up he go hey tell this girl that you play stitch on the young and the restless you know and the girl go your dad says you're stitch i don't believe and i'm like oh yeah, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
And she's like, prove it. And I go, all right, well, I was with Victoria.
I left Victoria. I got with her stepmom, Ashley.
And then, you know, I left Ashley. And then I got with Ashley's daughter, Abby.
And then I was in a love triangle between Ashley and Abby. And she was like, oh, my God, it is Stitch.
And then my dad grabbed the phone. He's like, all right, hey, thanks, man.
Appreciate it. Used it to get girls.
This was before FaceTime, you know? Yeah, man. Times have changed.
That's funny, man. Yeah.
Well, dude, this has been really fun. What are you working on next? Where can people keep up with you? I'm on Instagram.
Follow me on TheRealSeanKerrigan. And, you know, do us a favor.
Go out and buy or rent Grace Point yeah we'll link it below yeah it's on amazon and

apple and you know uh we worked really hard on the movie and in it's got a great twist at the

end and people uh get a lot of great feedback from it yeah guys after you're done watching

beast games check out grace point it's on the same platform let's do it all right guys see you next

time thanks Thank you.