”You tell me where and when to be. I’ll be a P.A. I’ll be a busboy in the background. I just want to be around him. And I had this sinking feeling, like this might be the first and last time he ever makes a movie in my country — and how exciting.”
     As a young actor navigating Hollywood’s treacherous inlets, many of which can very quickly lead into questionable territory, Corbet is acutely aware of how rare these moments in life can be, this particular one being an uncommon crystallization of art, career, and boyhood fantasy. He’s also quick to admit that he has done work he’s not proud of and even humiliated by. But, he points out that for a young man living in New York (he recently relocated from L.A.), rent can be a humbler and a massive pain in the ass. The rule, he believes, is to stand by your decisions. “I want to be able to look a critic in the eye and say, ‘I did this for this reason, and maybe it’s not perfect. Maybe it’s not what I expected it to be, but isn’t it obvious why it was worth experimenting or trying?’”