WEBVTT 00:15.400 --> 00:16.700 My name is Anthony Montgomery. 00:16.700 --> 00:19.200 I'm from Indianapolis, Indiana. 00:19.200 --> 00:21.000 I started acting in college. 00:21.000 --> 00:24.200 I started acting when I went to IUPUI 00:24.200 --> 00:25.300 and 00:25.300 --> 00:26.900 I was not a child actor. 00:26.900 --> 00:28.700 The only acting I did as a kid was 00:28.700 --> 00:29.400 up. 00:29.400 --> 00:31.200 I got into trouble. 00:31.200 --> 00:33.500 They called me mischievous. 00:33.500 --> 00:35.800 I when I started college there was a professor 00:35.800 --> 00:37.800 that was casting and play called East of the 00:37.800 --> 00:39.300 sun west of the moon 00:39.300 --> 00:41.200 told me I had a great look and if 00:41.200 --> 00:42.800 I ever wanted to be an actor then I 00:42.800 --> 00:43.600 should 00:43.600 --> 00:45.100 audition for his play. 00:45.100 --> 00:47.300 I didn't know what auditioning was but I heard 00:47.300 --> 00:47.900 stories. 00:47.900 --> 00:50.700 So I'm thinking along the casting couch 00:50.700 --> 00:51.400 type of audition. 00:51.400 --> 00:53.400 I was like, what do you mean I businesslike. 00:53.400 --> 00:54.800 I'll give you a piece of paper and you 00:54.800 --> 00:55.300 read it. 00:55.300 --> 00:55.800 And 00:55.800 --> 00:58.100 however, it makes you feel you say it just 00:58.100 --> 00:59.100 like that 00:59.100 --> 01:00.300 just like okay that 01:00.300 --> 01:01.900 and I literally I'm in 01:01.900 --> 01:03.300 the ad that Indiana mentality. 01:03.300 --> 01:04.000 So I'm thinking okay. 01:04.000 --> 01:05.200 I don't have to take my clothes off and 01:05.200 --> 01:06.400 have to do anything. 01:06.400 --> 01:07.700 You know that I would never do and he 01:07.700 --> 01:08.100 was like no. 01:08.100 --> 01:10.300 No, what are you no, no, 01:10.300 --> 01:11.300 I auditioned 01:11.300 --> 01:12.900 and I got the part and I've been acting 01:12.900 --> 01:14.400 since I've never looked back. 01:14.400 --> 01:15.000 It was a children's. 01:15.000 --> 01:16.100 This theater play 01:16.100 --> 01:18.100 and I played The North Wind 01:18.100 --> 01:19.800 had a big frilly costume 01:19.800 --> 01:21.300 and I ran around on stage 01:21.300 --> 01:22.700 and and I loved it. 01:22.700 --> 01:26.600 You got the instant gratification from the kids 01:26.600 --> 01:28.300 at the instant adulation 01:28.300 --> 01:28.800 there. 01:28.800 --> 01:32.400 They are genuinely excited or they genuinely hate you 01:32.400 --> 01:33.300 because 01:33.300 --> 01:34.400 that's who they are. 01:34.400 --> 01:35.100 I love that. 01:35.100 --> 01:36.300 Most of all 01:36.300 --> 01:38.000 I said, okay if I can affect people like 01:38.000 --> 01:38.500 this. 01:38.500 --> 01:39.400 I'm going to do it for the rest of 01:39.400 --> 01:40.200 my life 01:40.200 --> 01:45.800 started that in college, and I've never looked back. 01:45.800 --> 01:48.000 My first job before Enterprise 01:48.000 --> 01:49.100 was 01:49.100 --> 01:49.900 popular. 01:49.900 --> 01:51.200 I was on 01:51.200 --> 01:53.900 a WB show called Popular and I played a 01:53.900 --> 01:55.900 character called George Austin 01:55.900 --> 01:59.000 and I was a high school quarterback. 01:59.000 --> 02:00.500 But 02:00.500 --> 02:03.800 I also had three regular jobs in between 02:03.800 --> 02:04.200 there. 02:04.200 --> 02:05.100 So I worked 02:05.100 --> 02:05.600 as a 02:05.600 --> 02:07.300 hotel security guard. 02:07.300 --> 02:09.600 I worked as an MC and DJ for bar 02:09.600 --> 02:11.000 and Bat Mitzvahs, 02:11.000 --> 02:12.600 and 02:12.600 --> 02:13.700 I worked at an 02:13.700 --> 02:15.700 doing office 02:15.700 --> 02:16.900 data entry 02:16.900 --> 02:18.500 at a market research company. 02:18.500 --> 02:20.200 I've been working since I was 15 years old, 02:20.200 --> 02:22.200 so I don't know how to not work quite 02:22.200 --> 02:26.500 honestly. 02:26.500 --> 02:27.700 I 02:27.700 --> 02:32.100 actually auditioned for Voyager a couple of years ago 02:32.100 --> 02:35.200 and that actually started a relationship with Ron surma 02:35.200 --> 02:38.500 the casting director and that casting office. 02:38.500 --> 02:40.100 They brought me back in a year and a 02:40.100 --> 02:43.900 half later for a role as tuvok's son. 02:43.900 --> 02:45.800 It wasn't even a physical presence. 02:45.800 --> 02:47.800 He would have been a transmission 02:47.800 --> 02:50.600 and I didn't get that one and 02:50.600 --> 02:52.400 I was blessed third time's a charm. 02:52.400 --> 02:58.000 So I auditioned for this and got it. 02:58.000 --> 03:00.500 What I do when I got cast I screamed 03:00.500 --> 03:02.600 I called my mother in Indiana 03:02.600 --> 03:03.900 and I told her what 03:03.900 --> 03:06.000 told her that I had gotten a job 03:06.000 --> 03:08.300 and she said that's good baby. 03:08.300 --> 03:10.500 And I said so are you sitting down 03:10.500 --> 03:12.200 and then I told her what my job was 03:12.200 --> 03:13.900 and she screamed through the phone. 03:13.900 --> 03:15.100 It was great. 03:15.100 --> 03:15.600 It was great. 03:15.600 --> 03:16.600 I'm a part of something. 03:16.600 --> 03:17.600 That's 03:17.600 --> 03:22.600 I'm a part of something that's established. 03:22.600 --> 03:24.500 My favorite part of this job is just having 03:24.500 --> 03:26.600 the job anyone in this town 03:26.600 --> 03:28.400 can tell you you can work 03:28.400 --> 03:29.900 your entire life 03:29.900 --> 03:32.100 and never get 03:32.100 --> 03:34.500 A job that's even close to being as incredible 03:34.500 --> 03:35.300 as this 03:35.300 --> 03:37.400 so just the fact that I got cashed 03:37.400 --> 03:39.900 and I'm a part of History. 03:39.900 --> 03:40.800 I'm not just 03:40.800 --> 03:42.500 you know, this isn't a show where 03:42.500 --> 03:44.300 I wonder what's going to happen from week to 03:44.300 --> 03:44.500 week. 03:44.500 --> 03:46.000 We know what's going on with our show. 03:46.000 --> 03:47.500 We know that there is a 03:47.500 --> 03:49.300 an established fan base out there. 03:49.300 --> 03:50.100 We know 03:50.100 --> 03:52.700 that we're loved worldwide 03:52.700 --> 03:54.300 as the best part to me 03:54.300 --> 03:55.800 that I get to go to work.