Studying Drama and Making Ends Meet
You might think that joining the military would steer him far away from Hollywood, but actually, all his military experience did was strengthen his determination to make it as an actor. When he got back to the U.S., he applied to Julliard again. And this time, he made it in. He started to study drama. Adam graduated in 2009 and started acting in Broadway and off-Broadway plays.
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At that point, he had moved back in with his mother and stepfather, and they weren’t going to let him be a mooch. Firstly, they charged him $200 per month to live under their roof – his family home. To make ends meet, he had to find odd jobs to pay the bills. Driver worked as a door-to-door vacuum salesman for some time and also as a telemarketer for a basement-waterproofing business.