“I'd only been out for, like, six months before I booked 'Insurgent'. I...” — Keiynan Lonsdale Quote

“I'd only been out for, like, six months before I booked 'Insurgent'. It was my first role in America, and it was a huge movie franchise. All I'd ever hear at the time was how Hollywood treated gay men or queer men, so I was, like, 'Well, I'm not going to shoot myself in the foot before I've even started life here,' you know?”

“My main advice is, if it's something you really want to do, then just go for it.”

“At some point, I came out to a lot of friends and some family, but then I went back in the closet when I started working as an actor in America.”

“When I came into the industry I started with acting and I did drama during junior high and high school. I fell into dancing as a hobby, but whenever you need work, you try out different things. So I booked a lot of jobs for dancing and it kept rolling and rolling.”

“Earlier I had been in New York, which was my first time to New York, and I got booked in the Baby Grand up in Harlem there. I was booked there for a week; they kept me there for about a month. That's where Doc Pomus and myself became very close friends and start running together around town and what not.”