Child Photo Magazine Issue 01, Fall 2016 | Page 60

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW

Sage Nicole Humphries

Interview continued from page 39.

What’s your passion as far as reading cies too and we would get information
and writing?
from other moms and other people
that I was working with. I switched to
I love poetry. That’s my favorite past Zuri because it was more family orienttime. If I have some time here even in ed. They understood completely about
NY at the model apartment, I’ll get on my ballet schedule. It just seemed like
the computer and just write something a very comfortable, happy place to be.
that I was inspired about during the And that’s kind of why I switched. And
day. I like reading poetry. I like a lot also because at Osbrink, I wasn’t doing
of fiction novels and a lot of like older a lot of the jobs I wanted to. Even as
English novels as well because I really a young child, I had very high aspiralike Old English. I’m not really good at tions and there were certain companies
writing it, but I love to read it. But, just that I’ve always wanted to work for and
basically, anything. I’ve always loved so I was just trying to navigate some of
writing essays as a child – just writing the agencies to find which ones would
anything, because I love expressing ex- send me out on these casting that I’ve
actly how you feel in sentences or in always wanted to go out on.
short stanzas. Just really anything. I
loved it. So, that was the hardest part Did you go out on any auditions for
giving that up at school for me.
movie parts or commercials, like a
McDonald’s commercial or something
At what point did you switch from Os- like that or was it primarily print?
brink to Zuri and why did you switch?
No, I did all of those. I’ve auditioned
I think I switched from Osbrink to for so many movies. Like, 500 Days of
Zuri when I was in junior high. I Summer, I got call back after call back
think I was probably going into 6th for that one. I’ve been so close as a
grade when I started with Zuri. And young child to breaking through in the
I switched because… really it’s kind acting industry. I did so many comof funny thinking back on it, I kind mercials. And then also print work too.
of followed this friend that I had. She I always worked for the bigger compawould switch around to other agen- nies like the Target. I did Crayola com60 | Child Photo Magazine