Right About Now with Ryan Alford - Christopher Sean - Actor, Writer, Influencer

Episode Date: August 2, 2022

Welcome back to another episode of The Radcast hosted by Ryan Alford! This weeks guest is Christopher Sean: Actor, Writer, and Influencer!Christopher Sean is best known for his role as Paul Narita on Days of Our Lives, and voicing Kazuda Xiono on Star Wars Resistance. Ryan and Christopher talk about the importance of social media, and how to leverage each platform for personal branding. To keep up with Christopher Sean be sure to follow him on Twitter @ChristopherSean and on Instagram @MrChristopherSeanIf you enjoyed this episode of The Radcast, let us know by visiting our website www.theradcast.com. Check out www.theradicalformula.com. Like, Share and Subscribe to our YouTube channel, or leave us a review on Apple Podcast. Be sure to keep up with all that’s radical from @ryanalford @radical_results @the.rad.cast.  If you enjoyed this episode and want to learn more, join Ryan’s newsletter https://ryanalford.com/newsletter/ to get Ferrari level advice daily for FREE.  Learn how to build a 7 figure business from your personal brand by signing up for a FREE introduction to personal branding https://ryanalford.com/personalbranding.  Learn more by visiting our website at www.ryanisright.comSubscribe to our YouTube channel  www.youtube.com/@RightAboutNowwithRyanAlford. 

And the more better acquainted you are with people, the better you are as a person, the more people are willing to actually say, you know what? I don't mind vetting for you and using my name as an referral to help you along the way. And it does actually have like a psychological effect as a child because you don't ever see yourself as the hero. You never really see yourself as the hero of your own story. You always see yourself as kind of the sidekick or supporting role. And it's not just you.

It's how society views people of color. Security guard, he's like, hey, how are you? First of all, here's my ID. And he's like, nope, your name's not on the list. You're not coming in. You're listening to the Radcast. If it's radical, we cover it.

Here's your host, Ryan Alford. Hey guys, what's up? Welcome to the latest edition of the Radcast. We're talking stars today. We're talking soaps. We're talking acting, writing, everything. Christopher Sean, welcome to the show. Thank you very much for having me ryan um i'm honored dude you are a huge huge deal and i am just a minnow in your big pond oh come on man star wars we got we won awards we were writing books we're come on man i'm just a guy over here running a podcast getting the pleasure to talk pleasure to talk to the stars like yourself.

Thank you, sir. I appreciate it. Thank you very much for having me. It really is an honor. I'm really excited to get to know you a little bit more. Thank you for sharing that your mom enjoys Days of Our Lives. You enjoy it more twice as much as her, which is really awesome. Yes.

I'm not even in the closet.'m uh i'll talk about it like i'll hear i'll get like whatever i'm not ashamed of anything i'm a grown man you know like i can say what it is grew up like literally i'll let me tell you this christopher i literally since growing up i'm like 12 years old and i come home from school and i would literally my mom would be watching the replay or we'd put in the vcr tape that where she had tapes over and over again the episodes i get my little debbie cake out of the cabinet swiss cake roll uh with my juice box 12 years old 13 whatever was something like that and i'm watching days i'm catching up on my days yes yes man this is a dream especially

those debbie cake with the zebra ones uh this is just a swiss cake chocolate roll with that cream or whatever i don't know so good and then my sister would bitch at me for uh for having to clean up because i always left it in the floor so she's like i clean up after your debbie cakes every day you know watching your your days are alive so there's some insider look we just gave the audience some insider tips on, uh, my childhood growing up watching days of our lives. So Christopher, let's, uh, let's, let's back up a bit. I want, I want to tell, you know, I want you to tell a little bit of your story. You've got a unique background. I love your heritage and you know, some of the uniqueness of that

I really want to talk about. But let's give everybody a little bit of the, I don't know, the cliff notes on Christopher Sean. My father was in the Navy. He's retired now and he became a civilian as an air traffic controller. He met my mom while he's serving, in Yokosuka Japan Japan Yokosuka Japan and um and my two sisters and myself being the youngest and we traveled kind of everywhere our station in Washington Subic Bay Japan Mississippi uh grandparents in Ohio San Diego and so forth kind of travel all. Southern California is home for me. I started off in acting.

I was always kind of wanting to be an actor because my father, being in the Navy, he would record himself on the little beta tapes. This is predating the VHS tapes. He would record us on the beta tapes and then he would send us you know little videos of him reading us books and i remember being a kid and seeing my dad on tv and my dad's like you know reading us a little book about a bat who was playing the both sides of the animal kingdom the ones that fly and the ones that are on land and it was like this i can't remember the name of the actual book but you know he's he was kind of playing both sides i remember listening to that and my dad would be like hey christopher sit down i was like

how do you know i'm standing this is crazy um my mom would then get that camera out and then she would record us and she's like this is for your dad so make sure you're having a good time and you know so i always felt super comfortable and myself on camera. And so growing up, I'd never seen anyone kind of looking like me, half Asian, half American on television outside of Bruce Lee and Brandon Lee, who they were taken from us so soon. I didn't really have those types of role models. So I never really thought this is something that I could do as much as I wanted to do my entire life and I always not having someone who looked like me didn't have that role model so in growing up I'm a very very very very introverted very shy person I decided you know what I've got to overcome that fear and I've got to pursue my

passion my dream and I just got to go for it. So I got an acting classes. And from then on, it was kind of like, if I remember holding the piece of paper, shaking, barely being able to read off of the paper, so nervous. And I remember saying to myself, it was one of the most humiliating and yet freeing experiences. And I, and I have to overcome that fear because I will not allow it to stop me from pursuing my passion. And from then on, I challenged the acting coach to put me in his master's program. He said, it takes two years. I said, give me six months and I'll kick it out. And yeah, in six months time, I was in the master's class going three days a week, you know, four to sometimes one, two in the morning, going up and

down, running scene after scene, memorizing every single thing, doing the best that I possibly can to prepare myself for the trials that are soap opera worlds. I mean, you're doing, you know, my biggest week was 52 pages of dialogue, 37, 19, 12, and 7. I mean, that's, you know, it was incredible. That was just one week of work too. You know, that's kind of where I started, where I'm at now in a nutshell. Yeah, man. A lot to unpack there. It's funny how many actors I talk to or get to know are more introverted. I always expected them to be more extroverted.

I don't know what that is. They're just jovial, outgoing persons. They can do lines. They're comfortable on camera. I don't know what that is. Like I always like, they're just jovial, outgoing person. They can do lines are comfortable on camera. I don't know what that is, you know, how they transition the two. Is that a tough, you know, for me, it's a great, it's a great idea. And it's a great question. I think most actors, they're artists. And so they really like express themselves through their art. Um, and in the art you're given the permission to really create and be something for me it's the permission i need the permission i need the people around me to say

hey man we believe in you we want you we want to see you create and it's like okay it's i have that again my mom being japanese and my dad being military it was uh be seen and not heard you know say yes sir yes ma'am um so it was very about respect and and then growing up it's like when do you really decide well i'm an adult now i don't think we actually ever do you know like even now i feel like a kid but i i have to remind myself like i'm stepdad to three kids i'm i've got a lady i got a house i got i got two dogs my own you know like i'm an adult now. I have to adult hard. I can't be a kid. But it's that permission that I have to even tell myself, hey man, it's okay. The 10-year-old self and your 50-year-old self, make both of those people

proud in this moment. Let's go. Hey, I like that that i like that a lot so uh that acting journey so it wasn't just uh immediate stardom and uh and all the riches and gold and all you know like the every gig you ever wanted that i thought that's how it worked right isn't that the hollywood dream yeah it's strange i stepped out and immediately they put a crown on me and the robe and they started to call me ryan alford i was like wait that's not me i Alford. I was like, wait, that's not me. I'm not, I'm not the King. That's, that's you. No, for me, I came out here and I really thought like, okay, I have to, who am I? What's going to make me unique? What's going to separate me? So I did a few beauty pageants and I thought if I had a title, I can get an agent and secured it. After

I got a couple of titles, I secured an agent got my agent and um they only wanted to rep me commercial and so i was like no no i i'm i'm like i was like i was like yes of course absolutely yes yes and then i remember going home and thinking i i deserve more i gotta work i gotta show them that i deserve it i was just too complicit so in that decision i remember i called them like two weeks later after having that inner monologue being like you're worth it you're valuable come on man and then i called them and i was like can i show you that i'm ready for theatrical as well and they're like okay come on in do a monologue for us and i did i did um um oh it slipped my mind but I did a monologue and they gave me a two year contract on the spot signed across the board.

I was like, OK, so as long as I can continue to overcome my fears and speak what I want, I can have it. And every audition room I got in, I learned something. I failed and I failed and I failed. I wasn't either. Whether it was my look, I'm not Asian enough or I'm not white enough. Whether it's my experience, my resume wasn't big enough to be able to get the larger roles, whatever it may be. I failed time and time again, countless amount of times. But through each failure, I learned and I grew and I adapted and I evolved. And I found that nothing was going to stop me unless I gave up, unless I chose to throw in the towel. And after about eight or nine years, I just shot Hawaii Five-0, one episode.

And I'm kind of making jokes on the set. And I remember one guy kind of sitting in the corner over there and I was like, oh, he seems a little grumpy. I'm going to hang out with him. And, you know, he's kind of sitting in the corner over there and I was like, Oh, he seems a little grumpy. I'm gonna go hang out with him. And, uh, you know, he's kind of overlooking everything, but not thinking twice and making jokes at him, make him feel good. And he basically was like, you know, Hey, you're really good. We'll see you next season. I was like, nah, bro, I'm one and done. I got to do this awesome episode. I'm very happy. Thank you. And he's like, no, I'm the executive producer.

We'll see you next season. And I was no way i get home um tell my parents things happen um anyway long story short i'm kind of homeless at the time and then um um for a few months you know kind of living on different people's couches couch surfing um here and there found myself uh the number one rule is like you know two things that go bad in three days fish and house guests so i was like oh i gotta be honest on the second night you know i'd sleep i'd wake up super early clean everything up and leave they're like hey man what happened where'd you go i was like oh i'm so busy i got i got you know i think I got a lot of things to do. I never wanted them to worry about me. But my goal, again, was to always be proactive, be ready, and stay ahead of the game.

And after about nine years of struggle, and again, not having complete focus as to what I wanted, after being homeless, I cut everything out of my life that was toxic, that was bad. After being homeless, I cut everything out of my life that was toxic, that was bad. I started to refine and filter out everything that wasn't helping me in my goal. From there, right after Hawaii Five-0, I got a two-year contract on Days. About three months in, they called me back for Hawaii Five-0. Hey, we want you to be the main antagonist of seasons five and six. It was kind of like for three years, I was flying back and forth from Hawaii Five-0 and Days of Our Lives.

How was Hawaii Five-0? Did you know, I mean, you're probably not even old enough. I'm older than you and I don't think I'm, the original, like did you study the original? Like how much knowledge was even required or was it? Dude, honestly, um i knew nothing about the show i just knew that it was like a huge franchise i mean it was a very very popular everyone loved it was like what the cool people do you know and like alex loughlin scott khan

you got grace park and daniel day kim i love i love them so much. Um, but I didn't, I literally did one audition and I thought like, they're like, it's a big, you know, guest star role where you're the brother in law of Daniel Day Kim. I'm like, dude, the guy from lost, this guy's a legend. Um, and I, like I said, I really knew nothing of the show. I was just kind of going in, I was doing what I felt was right for the role and, um, kind of came to fruition. Like I said, it kind of fell into my lap. One episode turned to another one, turned into another two, turned into three, turned into one, turned into 13 episode run on a three year span and, and, um, making relationships with Grace Park and Daniel, they came who might have the utmost respect for

both of them. And,'s what people that's the thing like you said like i would think like that snowballing and you you taking advantage of it like you mentioned the executive producer but getting on the shows like that with those names hollywood i mean it's like anything else not watching us who you know right like because you never know what projects they're going to do they remember you you make an impression i mean i have I would just think that it those kind of things snowball is those relationships you build because I think with those relationships come more opportunities right you're absolutely right I mean because in the end

it's like I I always say yes the old saying is it's not what you know it's who you know but to add on to that it's who you know and how you know them. Because now that you know me, you can't really ask me of a favor as of yet. But by the end of this, we're probably going to hang out, having Christmas dinner together, splitting Thanksgiving. When I come to LA, we're going to have drinks or dinner or go surfing, whatever it is. Yeah, man. I'm going to be playing the Wi-Fi boat theme song. I'm going to have Days wi-fi theme song we're gonna be i'm gonna have days for our lives theme song you know i'm gonna bring my hourglass you know like i have one actually hidden in the corner there with my day's 50 year anniversary book that's awesome but uh

i mean it comes down to who you know and how you know them and and the more better acquainted you are with people the better you are as a person, the more people are willing to actually say, you know what, I don't mind vetting for you and using my name as a referral to help you along the way. And there has not been many people who've been willing to actually stick their name out or stick their neck out for me. But the very few people who have,

I will have a lifelong debt to these people because it's hollywood is a cutthroat business and if i'm working many of them feel that many people feel that you know what that means you're taking food off my plate but the way i see it is because there's such few asian americans that are actually working in the entertainment industry and like we just got our first marvel superhero right shang chi yeah uh we just got i'm i'm you know i'm upper 30s and i'm just seeing my very first role model who's a superhero like for me it was very very big thing i i dreamed of being a superhero my entire life and so i never thought that i would be able to play one let alone now i'm in the role of nightwing batman's first protege uh at the dc in dc you know yeah so um deal

and i think those things like again i'm sorry no and i think it's interesting like the you know i try to be self-aware and I try to think about, but I'm just a white guy from South Carolina. But recognizing going, like you said, growing up as a kid, having an Asian background and not seeing or having that reference point, that's a big deal. And then getting that opportunity to become, you know, a role model. I don't know. I just think that's cool. You know, I really appreciate that. And it does actually have like a psychological effect as a

child because you don't ever see yourself as the hero and you never really see yourself as, as the hero of your own story you always see yourself as kind of the sidekick or supporting role and it's not just you it's how society views people of color yeah um and sadly it's like well you know oh there's the asian guy when you think of asian you immediately slap him with stereotypes you know uh the nerd the the mathematician the martial artist. Now, I'm great at all three of those things, believe me. You're smart, you're good looking, and you're great at karate.

But other than that, I don't want to stereotype you. We'll let you have those. You've got to be good at the things, right? Yeah. No, but honestly, just like I bet you're great at those as well, plus many more. We're multi-layered people as well as any other race. It's like the more that you showcase that on television, the more that you start to normalize other races and that we are just all bleeding the same color blood. That's right. We're no different, you and I.

bleeding the same color blood that's right you know we're no different you and i i'm i'm just i'm i'm uh i'm the thumb on the hand and you're you can be the pointer you can be the middle whatever you'd like we're all in the same hand yeah you know yeah so uh all right waited i waited 18 minutes to get into uh days of our lives you know i mentioned it earlier but you know my my guilty or not my not guilty pleasure um i know it's been a big deal for you and i it's funny because i asked you we talked pre-episode you know like so where do you get the most recognition you know like and you said the most excitement might come from people recognizing you for days uh i So multi-level question here. First, talk about in general, I'm curious, like the soap opera experience and the days experience.

And I don't know, give us some, I don't know, grub or insight to the soap opera world, you know, behind the scenes. Man, I'll tell you what, it is a very, very fast machine. If you can't keep up, you know, Drake Hougaston always tells me, your name is on paper and it can come off that door just as quick as it was put up. You know, you got to be ready. And for me, it was like I got in there. I remember auditioning for the role like against thousands of other people

and i walked in and it was like i was kind of like not thinking i was kind of like you know what i'm so focused i had just screwed up uh my opportunity on general hospital with mark teshner frank valentini i literally i got the producers for the role and I just stumbled I fell apart I folded under the pressure I wasn't ready and again in that failure like any other I sat I stewed and I thought about it

and how can I make myself better from these moments had the opportunity to meet with Marnie head cast director of Days and right off the first audition she looked at me and said we're bringing you straight to producers. So I was excited.

I get to meet Greg Meng, you know, and everyone knows the prolific Greg Meng. Well, they called me back. They said, sorry, they changed the script. We just want to not throw any curveballs at you, but here you go. I remember getting to the producer session, and I saw a large group of black men. I saw a large group of Latin American men.

I saw a large group of Asian American men. I saw a large group of Asian American men. I was like, man, it looks like everyone else is going for different roles. We were all, I didn't know, we were all battling for Paul. Long story short, came down to me and two other actors, one black, one Latin, and myself. They asked if I spoke Japanese. I said, yeah. They asked if I knew sports.

I said, oh, yeah. this guy marty met with me yeah yeah exactly marty met with me on the day uh actually i was driving into the the lot getting the burbank studios and i was like oh man this is it you know security guard he's like hey how are you christopher sean here's my id and he's like nope your name's not on the list you're not coming in. And I was like, wait, I'm supposed to be in there doing a network test. Yes, my name wasn't on the list. They're getting into the studios. And it's like 4 o'clock in the morning.

No one's answering their calls. My agent, my manager, no one. Marnie was like, I'll be right there. Save my day. And then I got on set. And Freddie Smith was like my scene partner. And I was like, dude partner and um you know i was like dude i don't know i'm like you know i'm confident but i'm nervous to be kissing you freddie and i was like and he's

like don't worry man i got you and that was it like we you know we i had my first kiss on camera and i booked the role working with freddie very comfortable uh working with him he was awesome and then you know on on the day set this is where we start getting a little crazy on the day one um my very first scene is uh sean christian the the famous gorgeous sean christian doctor uh on days of our lives and christopher sean so stage manager friend is calling us both out the set she's like sean christian you both know your names get out here and get ready like oh man and uh right before i go out one of the actors daniel i'm drawing a blank here daniel says to me hey man they don't care about

the blah blah blah they only care about the ooh la la, la. So I was like, oh, I got to look pretty. So I'm trying to do the blue steel in my scene. I was like, I look like an idiot. I don't know how the fans enjoyed me at all. But yeah, there's that. And kind of like, you know, a couple, a year or two in the project, I remember being on set. I got to meet Deidre hall and we related

because we both have siblings that have down syndrome and you know she is one of the most loving and and and powerful presence she has such a powerful she's queen b they call her right queen b on set because she just really understands that she's been she has the most time on camera than any other actor in Hollywood that's why one of the reasons she got her star in the walk Hollywood Walk of Fame I mean she's incredible she used to she used to ride elephants stand on elephants and do circus shows and tap dance and she was a superhero and Deidre Hall everybody you know round of applause for her we love her um working with her she was amazing i remember though being in the in the hair and makeup this is where

everything was i call it the watering hole because everyone comes and everyone talks about what's going on in their days and um drake hoganston comes in and i just have the utmost respect for this gentleman and this is prior to me finding out that i was going to be his son on the show and we're hanging out and talking talking talking um he's talking talking talking and i'm loving it but you know some people are like oh drake talks forever and i was like you know so i get a call from stage manager and they're like hey christopher sean we need you up front like excuse me drake one quick second i run over and they're like, oh, man, so sorry. You know, sometimes some people can. And I was like, is this literally the only reason why you called me?

I mean, you called me out to stop me from having a conversation with this legend. And they were like, well, we were just trying to help you. And I was like, thank you. But no, thank you. And I ran back in. He was like, everything. I was like, yeah, it's just a misunderstanding. So anyway, where were you?

And he's telling me about his days in New York, Yankees. He's telling me about like, you know know seven brides and seven sons and seven i mean all of his stories so for everyone listening that might know him by his his uh his day's name who are we talking about i apologize john black yes infinite john black yes man bd legend himself uh the white fox i love him the silver fox excuse me um gorgeous double o agent he was also the one who was like read this book it helped me find my character the born identity oh wow and i read i read it i read the whole book front the back i love this so much my lady got me the entire series. I got four or five books hidden over here in my bookshelf.

Oh, yeah. It's such great. But, yeah, man, like every day, me and John Black, Drake Hougaston, we would sit in his dressing room and we would just talk for hours prior to actually going to set. And we would just relate. He was really a father figure to me um which uh character or actor was most like their person real person in

real life is anyone like like almost playing themselves that's a great question man um i always wondered that because like some of these guys you know so pop so far as maybe get like a bad rap sometimes but like some of them like i just imagine them they have to act like this has to be them in real life like i don't know you know it's funny it's like each person's a little different like um john aniston i'll tell you a little story i don't know if i should you know i'm gonna tell little different like um john aniston i'll tell you a little story i don't know if i should you know i'm gonna tell you the story by john aniston yes when i first when i first met him he was he was i was like hi pleasure to meet you sir like respect your work and he's like oh what are you doing the show and i was like oh man he's tough you know he's like i

was like all right i play you know paul narita. I'm the home record of Sonny and Will. Oh, yeah. Let me tell you a joke. And he goes on to tell me this joke that I was like, yeah, OK, sure. The joke was not family friendly. Let's just say that. And I'm like, who is this guy? He's kind of chuckling.

He's like, have a great day. And I'm like, what the heck? Completely contrary to what I thought he was, like this very upright, regal man. He was telling dirty jokes in the back, being hilarious, by the way. And I was like, what a way to break the ice. What a way to make someone feel comfortable.

What an awesome, experienced actor. Yes. I just remember how many times, and I know he's now passed and I do not know. A lot of these guys, I admit, I knew some of them if they were like gigantic stars like obviously Marlena

but their acting name. Stefano. How many times was Stefano going to how many different ways was he going to come back? Oh man, he was the phoenix. He kept to come back? Oh, man. He was the phoenix. He kept rising.

He kept rising, man. Who's the bad guy now? I mean, who's like the bad, bad guy? Is there one? That's a great question. I think Stephan O. DiMera is the new bad guy. Yeah, right. Trying to be.

To be entirely honest, I'm not following it as much as I should. Excuse me, the more I watch it, the more I'm like, I need to be back. I miss them so much. Which is one of the reasons, excuse me, why I jumped back to Beyond Salem. I was like, I got to get that itch filled.

What is Beyond Salem? Let's talk about that project. What's happening there? That's Peacock. Peacock peacock app and on the peacock app they began streaming the beyond salem it's a spin-off series of days of our lives and there um beyond salem chapter two we had uh we had a whole slew like a diamond heist and a kidnapping of John Black and a brainwashing of Patch and John and Patch. Everyone's trying to save the day while Bo and Hope, love never dies. They're brought back to the series.

And Bo and Hope, I mean, Christian Alfonso, Peter Reckle, arguably one of the most beautiful couples in television history. Like, yeah, amazing chemistry, amazing talent. And they were like, we're done with soaps. And yet they're back doing the Peacock at Beyonce. So, you know, if you're a huge fan of Bo and Hope, which I don't any soap up every soap show. If you're a soap fan, Bo and Hope, which I don't – any soap opera – every soap show, if you're a soap fan, you know Bo and Hope. If you're a fan of theirs, I would say come out and watch the show on the Peacock app.

Is the soap opera world just like its own world, like comparative to – I mean because you've got daily episodes. I mean it's just – it's a soap like just the amount of content like everything else I mean is it from a business perspective just as unique as it seems you're absolutely right you're absolutely right because I got a buddy who works in Disney animation his name is Frank Niddle um love love love Frank he's a family friend of ours and Frank works like I said into Disney since way back in Tarzan. That was his first project. And he's been a part of Disney since then. And, you know, he gave us a tour of the Disney animation studios where, you know, this is where they created every Disney animated movie, starting with Snow White and on.

At the time we were there they had this secret project which was Raya and the Last Dragon and Adele B. Lim's working there and um we're kind of walking around seeing Frozen 2 everywhere the artists working on you know finalizing every little little bits here and there it was amazing to see um but Frank he's around this he's been on the projects for years and he's a huge days fan and i was like hey man because you're giving my family this opportunity um i'd like to give you the opportunity to have a tour the nbc lot days of our lives uh now he's kind of stoic and i'm laughing i'm like what dude i thought you'd be excited he's like believe me i'm very excited i'm keeping my composure this is my mom's

favorite show this is my favorite show he's like oh my god thank you so much i'm like cool so you know he gets there and i was like what was your first thought how did you feel who did you run into and he was like uh i saw so many of the stars just walking the hall so he was like i i i knew him i knew and he can go he's like the almanac of soaps like he knows everything um and he kind of went on and on and on but he the one thing he did say was, I can't believe how fast paced it was. And I can't believe how the sets, they seem so small. Like on the show, it seems like this huge, but our imaginations create this whole world behind the small set that it is. Right. And so he was like, I didn't realize how small the sets were, but I was able to get on the set and just kind of live every little moment

and breathe in the Mara Mansion and the Brady Pub and all those great, great places. So you do get as recognized for that than anything else. I'm sure soap fans are just like different fans right are they just like dude they're so passionate they're the most passionate fan base and honestly like i i you know i did star wars yeah and i was a i i was uh i was a part of star wars resistance i did star wars visions i just recently did Star Wars Celebration, the largest Star Wars convention in the United States.

Like, huge, amazing. But the love that I get when I do soap opera events, the love that I get anytime I'm posting things from the soap fans, they're like, I've been a fan from day one. I've been a fan for 56 years, and I know this and this. And when you came on, I knew you were going to do great. And they follow my career. they still reach out to me I have a long list of people that I can thank um that have supported me through my my my um when I left the show and have been there for me when I came back you know um they're amazing they're the best fan base that i've i've i've ever found in the entertainment industry how's uh you know you've you've been in the business for a while now

you've had the peaks and valleys you've seen a lot of different things i think you're you know i think maybe hitting your stride maybe like your popularity your opportunities hopefully are growing we'll get a little bit more into that but it's interesting to me you've you've you've kind of come up to the business while social media has kind of taken off you know I'm curious from a business and marketing perspective the impact that you have or may haven't seen you know as it relates to the power of social media and maybe your career and like how you leverage it or, you know, all those things. I'd just be curious. I think that's a great question. And I think that absolutely, you know, social media absolutely

correlates to the entertainment industry because social media is marketing. It's direct to consumer marketing. So if you're not taking advantage of that, if you're not seeing the value in that as a business person, then you're absolutely missing the trend. What's popular, what is the new means of marketing? I continue to say that because, again, like if I were to be going up for a role and I've got a million followers and then Ryan Alford comes in and he's got a million followers. And then Ryan Alford comes in, and he's got 10 million followers. We're both amazing. We're both awesome. He's super buff, sexy, gorgeous, got a voice to kill. And then me, I'm trying to compete, but I only have a million followers, and I'm almost as good as him.

Who are they going to choose? Of course they're going to choose Ryan because, again, those are 10 million eyes that are going to be going to their project if and when he were to post on his social media for their project. So it does. Sadly, in my mind, it does play a large part. I mean, even sometimes in breakdowns when you're getting auditions now, it'll say social media following a plus not important, but a plus. Why would they put that on there if it wasn't something that they were thinking about yeah right so sadly it does play a major integral part into uh the success but it can be sadly or it could be something that you're well aware of and you can take advantage

of it and do the hustle just like anyone else you got to hustle for what you want in life yeah and if they're telling you this is what they want, well then get ahead of the game and start working, develop it, get on it. Like I'm posting every single day and my stories, you know, I post every single day because that is a 24 hour window where I know that

that's it. You have to come to my page, just see what I'm doing within that 24 hours or you're never going to see it again. Yeah. So that's going to continue to keep that, that, that 90% retention rate that Instagram, Snapchat, and whatever other companies that do stories will continue to,

to to keep that high retention rate and retention to interactions to so forth. Those are very important facets as well. Like you have to start getting getting you have to start getting like collaborating with people like yourself who are very successful you've got a very very strong fan following and you're unique because you reach out in so many different areas you cast a wide net it's very smart what you do and how you do it you keep the fans interested you continue to grow your fan base and you collaborate with people that you find interesting and because you're passionate about it you're sharing that passion and people love you not for the business that you run people love you for you and then they'll love whatever you decide to pass on to them because it's you you're right you're amazing and and you

started off and you were so loving to me and i was like i love this guy i immediately i was like you're cool as heck and like and you got you sold you i'm loving to me. And I was like, I love this guy. I immediately, I was like, you're cool as heck, man. Like you got, you sold you I'm sold. So whatever it is you post, I want to like, I want to comment on because you've taken my heart. You're a great person. And that's what social can do for you. It creates that opportunity.

Like you said, it can be a detriment or you can look at it as a lever for opportunity because you know, you investing time and all that, you got your fans following you, but you never know what producers watching. You never know. Like you said, what audition you're going to get in and Hey,

this guy's active on social media. He's a great actor. He's talented, but he's also going to bring us, you know, some awareness on top of a project. Maybe it's not as big as like some gigantic movie or something, but it's a leverage point. So it's smart of you to kind of leverage it and use it for what it can

be. And that's what I coach people on is like, you know, use it, you know, it's like, it's there, like we can, you know, bitch about it all day, but like, it's, it's an opportunity point for, for people. And, you know, people look at it and they say, oh, why are you bitching about it? Like, what's, what's the main problem? Well, you know, back in my day they say oh why are you bitching about it like what's what's the main problem well you know back in my day i had a journal and no one was allowed to read it now the internet is your journal and you expect everyone to read it well so what you know the only constant in life is change everything's constantly changing always even after like saying that sentence you know my inner my innards my outer everything's

changing so keep up yeah and also it's like if i got again you know if i got a million followers even if i have a hundred followers and i have a particular niche and you know what i'm like i love this whatever this may be you can a have a community of people to hang out with and talk about that will enjoy that same thing you do and then now you have friends on social media you're not so lonely you have people that are accessible celebrities that are accessible i mean you reached out to me via instagram and i then researched you and i was like why in the world would this super successful person reach out to me but basically like it is one of those things where you know celebrities are accessible yep you can build communities if you need spare change and you have a hobby you have the opportunity to then make a little

cash by selling it to friends rather than knocking door to door like again there's so many opportunities that can be found if you just aren't afraid of change. Yeah, that is a big point. Now, have you gotten on TikTok? Yeah, yeah, I suck at it, but I'm on it. You know, the difference between Instagram is like pictures can say a thousand words and videos say those thousand words. But TikTok is like, all right, we're taking it to the next. Now we're going to dance and everything.

And it's like, I don't dance, man. I'm not a dancer either, but you know, you gotta, you gotta change. Yeah. But you know what? I have the TikTok. I've been posting on it. I've been trying to interact with people and you know, it is one of those things where it changes here. It's inevitable. And I'm on it. I'm up to like 250 followers compared to my ig yeah but i'm having fun on it now i can't stop watching these videos on tiktok it's so cool well that's a whole it's a whole nother uh time waster it's like you go down the vortex it's like the swiping vortex on tiktok it's like

whoa i thought it was 40 seconds it's been 40 minutes what happened on the rabbit hole yeah that's that's i mean honestly like that type of engagement that's what i hope for when people are watching shows i'm on like days of our lives you got an hour a day where people can watch and be like i know i'm gonna watch for an hour and my problems for the day are gonna dissipate i'm gonna sit and enjoy get lost. And then after that, it's like, all right, back to cooking dinner, laundry or whatever it may be, back to the errands of the day. But, you know, that's one thing I absolutely love about Days of Our Lives

is we always had that time where we could share an hour with the fan base. And I feel like that may be why the fans are just so loyal. Because, you know, for us, it's a livelihood it helps us live our lives and do something we're passionate about it also helps them live their lives and again that symbiotic relationship is pretty awesome

so what are some projects in the work what's a day in the life of Christopher Sean like well day in the life of uh christopher sean like well day in the life um before i'd say it's sporadic it's crazy it's now i've kind of gotten it down to like uh like i said i'm adulting pretty hard now so i wake up um i immediately sit up i go right into meditation because you're kind of in that alpha state where you your mind can still create and if we're all

just balls of energy floating around and on a spinning around a sun that's flying through space in the middle of nothing surrounding other balls of energy it's like what is life really you know like make the best of it as you can so i i just continue to put out there what I want in my life. And my mantra is I am a world-famous, successful, high-paid, and abundantly working, happy, loyal Academy Award-winning lead actor on camera and in voiceover. And what I will give back, this is what most people miss, is what I will give back is my heart, my passion, lessons on how to be better. I will better every person that comes around me that truly wants to better themselves. That's my job to help them as well. Hey man. And so I love that. I need my sound effects. But it's that, you know, it's like a lot of times like, uh, you can't just continue to take, cause then you become gluttonous. Then you become lethargic. Then life is just nothing matters. But in giving, you find just as much love and passion in giving.

And that continues. They say to give and not receive breaks the cycle of love, the Dalai Lama. Because basically, if I give you a gift and it makes me feel good and you want to give me a gift and I'm like, no, no, I can't, please. It's like, no, thank you. and you want to give me a gift and i'm like no no i can't please no it's like no thank you i will accept that wholeheartedly because if i don't allow you to feel the love of giving then i've broken that cycle now it's awkward now it's weird now you don't want to come over for christmas and now we can't have dinner but uh so so you know i uh i wake up and i meditate and i put out what i want i i see my thoughts for what

they are, because we literally will always have random thoughts. Probably listening to me now talking, you're like, hmm, what am I going to have for dinner? Whatever it may be, right? We're running low on time or whatever. Thoughts are naturally happening.

We have to be aware of them, but our thoughts will keep us in line as long as we have a mantra that will continue to guide us to what our goal is. But again, you just have to kind of be aware of your thoughts. And through meditation, you become aware that you are not your thoughts, your thoughts are just visuals that you see on the train of life. And you're just kind of watching those thoughts go by. And the more that you allow them to affect you, the more that you can affect other people in a negative way. So for me, meditation's key. Wake up, start a day of meditation, go right, have my breakfast, go right to the gym, work out, hit the weights, hit the jump rope. I did it. The more you know, campaign with the star, the more, you know, did you know jumping rope can burn 10 to 15 calories every minute, the more, you know, you know, like,

uh, get out there and get in shape. Uh, but I've been applying that now more recently. And after the gym, I come home and it's right to emails. It's right to social media, whatever work I need to do. I'll, I'll either, um, you know,, you know, if I have auditions, if I have voiceover auditions, I start knocking them out immediately. That night, Monday through Friday, I try and find time for my lady. Her language of love is quality time. So for me, what do you what are you passionate about? Well, she's passionate about horror films. She loves the scary movies and i'm a big disney guy i'm a big like i'm like you know pokemon and anime like but uh she she loves those horror films so i'm like so now i've been avidly watching horror films one a day with her you know so spend a little bit of time cut out

and so now i'm kind of knocking out two birds with one i'm studying acting i'm studying cinema i'm studying performance i'm studying the way they're made. And I'm also hanging out with my lady doing something she loves. So you're ready to be the next Michael Myers is what you're saying. You know what? Look at this. Hey, there you go. You got it. I'm ready.

But yeah, man. And then after that, it's like, you know, I read. I've got like different books that I read self-help books and whether it's like self-improvement or fantasy books like Ender's Game or comic books to study a Nightwing and whatever it may be. at night i'm playing video games man you catch me on the playstation 5 playing some video games with some friends talking smack you're not gonna beat this you suck i got you you're nothing all right good job man you beat me again let's try again sorry son i didn't mean to hurt your feelings yeah you think he's a friend he's he's 11 years old and you've like he's crying because the nightwing uh chris rachon is like beat him up on Fortnite or something. Son, I got you.

Yeah, listen, I'll buy you a doll later. I love you. I'm sorry. Send you an autograph. You know, the hourglass. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Send you an hourglass. It seconds as a timer for the next time i'm gonna kick your ass

oh that's so funny so how are the opportunities these days i mean you getting is the phone ringing more the emails coming more like are you seeing more and more opportunities yeah quantity and quality you know finally now like i'm seeing asian american actor japanese american i mean i can count like in my entire 12 years of trying to be an actor it was like i had two opportunities for hoppa uh roles that was it now it's like asian american asian american sadly because everything's trying to be so politically correct it's like looking for uh chinese american looking for korean american um not mixed so i still miss out it's still kind of a detriment but at the same time the more that i see asian american faces on camera the more opportunities for them and

opening that culture i'm still a part of that culture so you know things will still trickle my way um but again quantity and quality like i i feel that i'm finally going up for series regulars i'm finally going up for for leads in movies i'm um going touching on that i just you know booked the lead of a netflix animated feature that will come out in 2024 i'm very excited about that. Very, very excited about that. And my entire life, I grew up wanting these opportunities and now they're here and I'm so grateful. Gratitude is everything I've found.

Everything is gratitude to the fans, to the work, to the people that took care of me and mentored me, to the people that were willing to put their names out, to the fact that you even wanted to speak with me you know who am i in the world of ryan like i'm i'm like we didn't get a minnow in this ocean that is ryan's intelligence and background like for me i'm lucky so thank you and and again it's everything man it is no man it's my pleasure having christopher sean on the Radcast. Is any dream roles? Like, if we got anything, you know, you sound like a goal guy. Like, is there anything like any, I don't know, bucket list or you take them as they come? Are you like, man? yeah you know what i got a vision board okay you know like a vision board is kind of like a goal like where you want to go but i'm not too specific because i said all my whole life like

the first time like we're going to san diego comic-con literally right after this interview i got the person that just called me um he's like hey we're out front we're going where are you at we're holding up the comic-con bus here on the radcast no man you know comic-con can wait i'm here with ryan on radcast baby uh no but honestly like my goal i told my lady we went six years ago we were in a motel spent three hundred dollars and a small cigarette burn roaches on the wall sticky floor this the drains wouldn't drain and i was like i'm baby i'm so sorry i'm so sorry but you know this is something i've always wanted i always wanted to and she's like it's a memory it's amazing i'm not bougie you're bougie not me i'm like you're right i'm the bougie but she's like

this is an amazing memory and she will never forget that and i said i promise you i will be back here on stage having a panel of my own where people will come and want to see me meet. Six years later, we're there. Now, that was a very specific goal. And I worked really hard for it. But overall, the goal was to be a superhero. Not just specifically Marvel. Not specifically DC.

Not a Japanese superhero. It was just a superhero. not a japanese superhero like it was just a superhero and now again one of the most coolest one of the coolest sexiest charismatic superheroes out there you know batman was very stoic and tough and then robin who grows up to become nightwing charming optimistic like basically nightwing is batman if he was raised with good parents you know um and i get to be this guy i'm the first asian american person to portray nightwing holy cow that's huge that's huge um so again you know it's like my goals are if you if you aim low you'll hit you'll hit it you'll always regret it every time i had on my vision board, most Emmy nominated actor,

Emmy nominated shows. And we were nominated for a primetime Emmy on star Wars resistance. And we were nominated on days of our lives. And I was pre nominated for my performances as Paul and the Rita, but I never won. Why? Because I aimed low and I hit. So now I got in my mantra.

I'm an Academy award winning lead actor on camera and in voiceover you know the goal is to to continue to put out exactly what I want and if I miss that's fine I'm a lot higher than where I would have hit if I aimed low and I'm happy with that so my goals again are to to be the number one on cast list, the number one where I can, again, be role models to people who didn't have them, be the number one where I can show what it means to have a positive and optimistic mindset and guide people in a loving way. I've worked with some people who have taken away from my time to perform because they felt that it was necessary for them to do 10 takes when I was only given one opportunity, you know, one shot. That's it. I'm sorry. We're out of time. Can you guys please go straight to tape? Yeah, I mean, we would practice it knowing this is going to happen, hoping it wouldn't, but we prepared for it. So, you know, like I will I won't do that to people.

I won't I won't lead by that example. I will always lead with a positive and righteous choice. It may be harder. It may take longer, but that's what I, that's my goals. Those are my goals. I love it, brother, man. You've, you've been a refreshing, a pleasant interview in a lot of ways. And I really appreciate you coming to the show. I can't wait to have Christmas dinner dinner and to uh hit the strip uh in hollywood you know maybe i'll uh wherever wherever they're putting your star down here in the next few months right thanks i appreciate it man when you when the stars down i'm gonna be looking at me like and to ryan alford having me on the show where are you man there you are i'm to have you on my arm.

Get up here with me. But for real, let's keep it going. I want to stay in touch and definitely get up when I'm out your direction. Hit me up, man. I might be able to pull some strings for Days of Our Lives Tour. Who knows, man? Hit me up. Don't get me excited, man.

Don't get me excited. Christopher, where can everybody keep up with don't get me excited, man. Don't get me excited. Christopher, where can everybody keep up with you? Oh, Instagram, please. I'm on TikTok, Christopher Sean, but Instagram is where I'm mostly located. I will reply to almost every DM at Mr. Christopher Sean, one word, M R Christopher Sean S E A N. Thank you for the love, man. I really appreciate having me. My pleasure, man. Also, I'll be at San Diego Comic-Con with Gotham Knights. That's a project coming out on my birthday, October 25th. It is Gotham Knights.

Batman is killed in our project. And his protégés, Nightwing, Red Hood, Robin, and Batgirl, the amazing Babs. We have to take over and protect Gotham City. You can also find me on Beyond Salem Chapter 2 and Peacock App. We got a movie coming in 2024 and another project in 2023. And a lot more.

Check out the Radcast. Check out the Radcast and Ryan, baby. Yes, we're going to have it. Christopher Sean Plashard everywhere. We'll get your SEO numbers up, if nothing else. Brother, I really appreciate it. We're going to stay in touch. I know we will.

And you got big things coming for you. I know you do. Thank you, brother. Have a great day. Thank you. Hey, guys, you know where to find us, theradcast.com. Search for Nightwing. You'll find all the highlight clips from today from Christopher Sean.

You know where I'm at, at Ryan Offer and all the platforms. Go follow this guy on TikTok. Get his numbers up. We'll see you next time on Radcast.