Caleb McLaughlin has made the mental and physical undertaking of putting in one’s 10,000 hours second nature in order for him to see the light seep through a hazy daydream. Stageside at 11-years-old, McLaughlin began his performance craft as young Simba on Broadway before ever stepping onto the Stranger Things set. The streaming phenomenon’s generation-defining run was an example of Caleb putting in the sweat and dedication required in becoming a beaming star and a G.O.A.T.
“If you’re going to set that alarm clock at 8 a.m. and you set it at snooze when it wakes you up, and it takes you 30 minutes to get up, you lose that 30 minutes,” McLaughlin says to me on a Sunday evening in Culver City. “Going out there and getting the job or writing that script or going in for that audition I think all those moments are important… I think it is all about action.”
Sony Pictures Animation’s GOAT (premiering February 13) underscores the value of family and witnessing preparation turn into actualization. At 24 years of age, McLaughlin has already adopted the G.O.A.T mentality
Author: Okla Jones
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