Darren Criss On Coping With Lockdown, Playing Half-Pinoy Character

‘I love bringing up I am Filipino because I feel like it makes me cooler.’

- Janet Susan Nepales

Los Angeles --- Golden Globe awardee Darren Criss talked to us recently via BlueJeans video conferencing on how he is coping during this age of lockdown and self-isolation.

“Well, I will say I don’t have this kind of time ordinarily. This kind of time at home is so rare for me and my lifestyle, that this is the kind of time that I used to fantasize about,” he said. “Obviously, I would not have preferred for it to actually come at the horrible expense of millions of lives being endangered and the economy turning upside down and the general chaos that is outside. Obviously I would not have wanted that to be the reason for me to have this time, but because I do have it, I have to say I’ve turned these lemons into a significant amount of delicious lemonade because let me just say this, the days that have gone by, we don’t have enough time for me to tell you how much it is I am working on.

“Between, there’s a lot of fun stuff and personal stuff, there’s fun stuff and then there is stuff that is really enriching to me that I think a lot of us have been doing, connecting with friends and catching up on movies and maybe taking care of yourself, working out, all this stuff that you wish you could do ordinarily. But for me it’s like practicing my drums, learning Japanese, doing all these projects that I wish I had time for…”