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"Thomas McDonell has confessed that he began pursuing acting as &amp;quot;an experiment&amp;quot;.  Talking to JustJared.com, the Prom actor revealed that while he has only recently embarked upon his professional showbiz career, he is proud about the Disney film&amp;#039;s upcoming release, as the process of filming the project was arduous.  &amp;quot;I wasn&amp;#039;t into acting when I was a kid. Maybe because I was shy or it didn&amp;#039;t occur to me,&amp;quot; he explained. &amp;quot;I was always making things; I studied painting and sculpture in school. Acting sort of came later as an experiment.  &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s been almost exactly a year now [since beginning work on Prom]. Last spring, I sent an audition tape to the casting people at Disney. They brought me out for a screen test, there was some waiting time, some pre-production work in California. Then we started filming in about five LA middle school and high schools for two months starting in July/August.&amp;quot; McDonell, who is also a visual artist, went on to add that he finds his work impossible to classify.  &amp;quot;I can tell you about categories, influences or trajectories but at the end, the work that I make doesn&amp;#039;t have very much formal consistency, which is to say one piece to the next, doesn&amp;#039;t look the same,&amp;quot; he said.  &amp;quot;One piece might be a realist oil painting, the next might be a performance, the next might be a video piece, on and on. It&amp;#039;s more grounded in conceptual art, which is a vast territory.&amp;quot; Prom opens today in US theatres and on June 3 in the UK.  &amp;gt; Who is Thomas McDonell? "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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