I went and saw Babylon A.D. with my family on Saturday. I really just went to see it for Vin Diesel, thought it ended up having a pretty good story, I thought. Vin Diesel is an actor that I have looked up to for some time now. I am studying to become an actor and have the all-too-common dream of heading out to L.A. and beginning the hunt for acting work once I leave college. I admire Vin Diesel because he, like me, is multi-racial (we are both half black, but my other half is white and I think his is Italian). His first piece of work was written, and directed by him and he also starred in it. It was about his early experiences as an actor, auditioning time after time after time in New York and never getting the role because he was either too white or too black. One of my acting professors told me that I need to "embrace my ethnicity" and somehow use that in my acting. I have no idea what this means, but Vin Diesel figured it out. He payed his dues.