00:00My precious.
00:03What's up, everybody?
00:04You're here with Thaddeus Le Grown,
00:05and I'm on InStyle's 2026 breakthrough list.
00:08In the third grade, my teacher, she had a ticket system.
00:11Being the young entrepreneur that I was, I said,
00:14if I draw all my classmates' shoes and sell it back to them for tickets,
00:18I'll have the most tickets.
00:20One day I dropped off about 450-something tickets to her,
00:23and she immediately thought I was stealing.
00:25She ran to her ticket drawer and was like,
00:26oh my gosh, you stole all my tickets.
00:28And I said, look in your drawer.
00:30All the tickets were there.
00:31I said, look, I earned these tickets.
00:33These tickets are mine.
00:35At recess, I used to always do Michael Jackson dances.
00:37That's when I realized I liked people watching me perform.
00:41Kenny Brevin, very talented artist, knows how to snap on the beat,
00:44knows how to sing, can do it all.
00:45Shout out to Kenny Brevin from the UK.
00:47Definitely about to have a breakthrough year.
00:48A young Denzel.
00:49I felt like he could hit those emotional cues to portray me growing up.
00:52My necklace that I designed.
00:53I'm a big Marvel head.
00:55So I designed it after the Tony Stark arc reactor.
00:58I got it on right now.
00:59That's the Tony Stark arc reactor right there.
01:01Now in the middle, it says D3.
01:03That stands for me, my mom, my sister.
01:05That's what we call ourselves.
01:06The Wolf of Wall Street, Fast and the Furious 1,
01:08or the Count of Monte Cristo.
01:09One of those three.
01:10I go to sleep watching Wolf of Wall Street.
01:12My precious.
01:14Now look, when Gollum first hit the screen, Lord of the Rings, me and my friends, we couldn't stop saying,
01:20My precious.
01:21I'm a big Gollum fan.
01:22The World Cup is taking over my algorithm right now.
01:25Go Team USA.
01:26Jenny from the Blocks, green Versace red carpet outfit.
01:29Yeah, she killed that.
01:30That was amazing.
01:31Definitely my mom.
01:32She would be the reason I got it.
01:33Because growing up, she only told me what I could do.
01:36And so growing up, I thought I could do anything and everything.
01:40That's the reason I'm doing what I'm doing now.
01:41I called my mom.
01:42That was the first person I called when I made my first major booking.
01:45She, of course, already said, you're gonna get it.
01:48So when I called her, she's like, I know.
01:50Don't expect people to believe in you.
01:52You gotta believe in yourself more than anybody believes in you.
01:55Just keep that faith.
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