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One of the first things that I tried doing in terms of taking action on a personal level was trying this campaign called meatless Mondays' so one day a week I would try to adopt a plant-based diet.

It's very fun to see how fans react and theorize and get excited about what might happen in future seasons.

I get a lot of hate posting vegan, environment and pollution stuff.

I always look at the motives behind each scene. You can play that out tonally with how you express yourself or you can do that with your physical expression, your physical presence. So I always think about what physical presence I want to embody in each scene.

I was a huge comic geek growing up and even made my own comics.

I get to play a 58-year-old time-traveling assassin. The role had a lot of layers to it that I knew would be fun to break down and figure out the motives behind.

What I try to do on my Instagram is provoke discussion and share environmental and sustainability messages.

Quarantine has really affected me in terms of thinking about what the rest of the world is going through and what isolation within a small space might be like.

I live in the same house as I did when I started acting. My life hasn't changed. Only people around me have changed with how they look at me.

I grew up a fan of comics and hanging out in local comic book stores, talking to the store manager and seeing what their favorites are.

Teens say there's nothing I can do because I have no vote. The truth is, the only vote that matters is how you spend your money and who you give it to. Each coin is giving power. Notice and be careful who you give your power to.

I don't know that I would say I've felt like a 58-year-old, but I've never felt exactly my age, or in the right place.

That fight scene in episode two between Five, Hazel, and Cha-Cha at the department store was a lot of fun to shoot.

When you are ten years old and people are screaming your name, trying to grab you at the Kids Choice Awards, and you go to the mall and groups of girls start following you around, it's very unreal and like a dream. I can't say I get used to it, it's always been a little freaky.

With social media, some people are supportive and there are some haters and people who make fake accounts. It's out of my control.

Exposure is this thing people think they want but at the end of day it doesn't matter.

He just gets progressively more and more stressed and as his anxiety builds up, so does the chaos behind his eyes. That was very fun as an actor to see that sort of bubble over and really take over Five, and him really succumb to his suppressed insanity.

It's very fun as an actor to be in the skin of Five and to have Diego as a brother. Those two characters, they both are very driven and determined, and where Five isn't as personable as he should be, Diego makes up for it.

As far as what part of myself I brought to Five, I've always considered myself not really my age.

I mean, my understanding is that the live-action and the comic book versions of the Umbrella Academy' will parallel with each other while still keeping their distance, so that fans of the comic books who have already read the storyline has something new to look forward to and in approaching a new season.

One of the things that interested me about Five was the trauma that was contributed via the apocalypse. I wanted to make sure that I got his PTSD correct.

One of the great things about The Umbrella Academy' and its TV version is that there are 10 hours of footage, so characters are a lot more fleshed out and further developed.

Generally, when you prepare for a fight scene, you have a day before, where you're going through hours of choreography and getting comfortable with the different moves.

I don't know that Five was a good person before he got stuck in the apocalypse, in a way that really made him a bit more open-minded.

Five has always been this brilliant, very cunning, and weird little mind, so a number suited him, in a way, and he grew accustomed to it. The younger version of him is this bitter, not very sharing or necessarily caring person.