As an actor, there's very little you can do if people don't want to see you. Just getting yourself into the room to audition is tough.
My mother - the Irish side of the family - was very musical. My mother was a singer; there was music around the house all the time.
We discussed the history of postwar Japan and how Japan had missed an opportunity to build a more functional democracy because of the focus on fighting communism driven in large part by the American occupation.

