KELVIN TAYLOR
Welcome! Artistry is now global, decentralised and I am grateful.
With entertainment changes, I wanted to make it clear my heart and intention. I'm grateful for every opportunity presented or gifted and wanted this to be a Mission Statement, outside of me specifically.
For more on my career story, checkout my EPK above. :)
When you join entertainment in the West, they'll say "Work hard and you'll be rewarded", pitching "the arts is built on meritocracy". Then the conversation shifts to "We'll actually, It's who you know", so you join a union in hopes of getting better work and by paying dues (as a sacrifice). Then you ultimately get informed, late (nepotism aside) "there is actually a ceiling and it's fraternal".
Abuse of power exists in industries that have been unregulated and I have been privy to this my whole life.
My aim as an artist was always to invoke change and heal our planet bc it's the moral reality that was sold to our planet from the founders of "Showbiz". Hollywood (existing as a central broadcast system created by Eastern European Jews) comes with juxtaposition that people know when they are being sold something genuine or fabricated. Therefore factors of authenticity
towards your paying customer and humanity matters in all projects.
Understanding business acumen with marketing has made my intention never specifically for Hollywood. I also studied the business to not live as victim to any vices of my contemporaries with fame or being "chosen". New Zealand taught me to be a global cultural asset, to care about nature, community to heal our planet away from divisiveness and division.
Hollywood has found itself in a peculiar place with "weaponising identity" (Race, Gender, Politics) ostracising its audience and socially engineering an "oppression olympics" that benefit's 1 community at the top, gate-keeping. Tokenisation 2.0
Whether I am chosen or not, human authenticity that I am required to study portraying humanity on-screen I keep at the forefront.
"Chosen Ideology" breads narcism (Lack of Empathy). We can feel chosen, until we get sleepy, hungry, have to poop or meet a casket, which means we are all human. Chosen belief is destroying our planet with abuse of power.
My only mission in life is to continuously do something I love, in any global market, utilise my talent to inspire hope for a better tomorrow. Sovereignty, admiration for cultural differences, our human+kind and common+unity (community) is everything.
A message from "The Grateful Optimist" aka (a Father, a Husband, a Son & a Human-being).
- SAG-AFTRA & Equity New Zealand actor of the International Emmy Nominated film "The Golden Hour"