Three months ago, Bobby Del Rio joined the audio app Clubhouse. Now he’s making Hollywood movies At the start of the pandemic, Bobby Del Rio, a 43-year-old actor, playwright and director, had just spent a decade producing his first indie movie on a shoestring budget. Now, after joining Clubhouse on a whim, he’s amassed more than 13,000 followers, signed with a boutique agency in Hollywood and is working on his first multi-million-dollar project. Here’s how it happened. –As told to Tim Johnson “In Grade 2, I played Wally the Woodchuck in a stage performance at my primary school in London, Ontario. After that, I knew I wanted to be on stage for the rest of my life. A couple of years later, my family moved to Toronto, near Keele and Eglinton. At York Memorial Collegiate, I was always the dorky drama kid; I even played the lead in a few school plays. Still, I never really considered that acting could be a real career. “That changed when I started at U of T in 1996. I was studying economics, and I skipped all my classes—but I would show up 10 minutes early to play rehearsals at the Hart House Drama…
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