We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Vicente Perdomo. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Vicente below.
Vicente, we’re so excited for our community to get to know you and learn from your journey and the wisdom you’ve acquired over time. Let’s kick things off with a discussion on self-confidence and self-esteem. How did you develop yours?
I think confidence comes ultimately from making mistakes. The times I have felt the most confident is when I know I am sharing something of value with someone and that usually comes from having learned from a mistake. But also when experience isn’t there and you need to be confident, improv class helps a lot, you learn how to be quick on your feet. In terms of developing my self-esteem I have found a lot of success by believing in myself and knowing that it is always okay to make mistakes. Because, as I learned from one of my beloved acting instructors, mistakes will happen, but you can turn them into gifts and I think that applies as much to life as it does to acting.
Appreciate the insights and wisdom. Before we dig deeper and ask you about the skills that matter and more, maybe you can tell our readers about yourself?
Vicente Perdomo is an actor who spent most of his childhood in Barquisimeto, the musical capital of Venezuela. He was recently cast in the Echobend Pictures Short Film Seeking Arrangement, based on real life happenings of director and writer Roberto Rodriguez. The film went on to play at film festival circuits, including an opening in Atlanta for the Oscar qualifying film festival Out on film.
His parents Flor María and Juan Perdomo are Civil Engineers from Caracas Venezuela, after finishing high school Vicente decided to explore his parents roots by moving to their natal city; subsequently, desiring to experience different cultures and places across the US, he spent some time between New York, Nashville, Houston, Oklahoma and Kansas before moving to Los Angeles. He speaks two languages English and Spanish.
He began his acting career doing theater productions in Venezuela and continued after moving to Los Angeles. He has studied with Annie Grindlay at her studio in Los Angeles. He is currently in Kentucky on the set of the upcoming thriller Sorority Seduction, where he stars as Jared, a fraternity guy who is willing to go to any extents to protect Brianna, his childhood friend and love interest when a series of murders break at their school.
After wrapping the film’s production Vicente is preparing a show with an improv comedy group at UCB (Upright Citizens Brigade) to perform a live show in New York City this June.
If you had to pick three qualities that are most important to develop, which three would you say matter most?
Listening to your heart, the more I have done it the more I realize it’s a real skill, my advice would be to buckle up and prepare for a wild ride because it means you’re about to take the path less traveled, the good news is that there will always be something very special waiting for you on the other side. Putting your best foot forward in everything you do and doing it to the best of your ability is another important quality, even when you don’t feel like it, my advice when having a hard time in doing so is remembering that everything is temporary. Lastly be yourself, everyone will like what you’re doing if you allow to just be yourself.
As we end our chat, is there a book you can leave people with that’s been meaningful to you and your development?
Well, I’ll mention a few that have played important roles. “The artist’s way by Julia Cameron” was a book that definitely played a huge role in following my creative path and getting to know a lot about myself, the best way I can think of to describe the experience I had: it was like holding a mirror against myself. Another one: “the Four agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz” taught me to keep calm during a very turbulent time in my life and lastly “the Alchemist by Paulo Coelho” made me understand that everyone has a personal legend and even though it’s a courageous choice to realize it, ultimately it belongs to you and no one else.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm14932844/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk
- Instagram: @vicenteperdomo_
Image Credits
Brad Everett Young
