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Adam Driver: ‘Life’s s—-y, we’re all gonna die’

Adam Driver considers acting a service.

“That made sense to me,” the 30-year-old “Girls” actor told the September issue of GQ magazine.

“Here’s the thing, life’s s—-y, and we’re all gonna die. You have friends, and they die. You have a disease, someone you care about has a disease, Wall Street people are scamming everyone, the poor get poorer, the rich get richer. That’s what we’re surrounded by all the time. We don’t understand why we’re here, no one’s giving us an answer, religion is vague, your parents can’t help because they’re just people, and it’s all terrible, and there’s no meaning to anything. What a terrible thing to process! Every. Day. And then you go to sleep. But then sometimes, things can suspend themselves for like a minute, and then every once in a while there’s something where you find a connection,” he explained.

Driver found the connection between his acting career and his time spent as a Marine. Combining his two passions, he founded the Arts in the Armed Forces, which he still organizes today. He works with actors and provides “thought-provoking” monologues for soldiers.

“When I think of my military experience, I don’t think of the drills and discipline and pain,” Driver said. “I think of these, like, really intimate, human moments of people wanting to go AWOL because they missed their wives, or someone’s dead and they can’t deal with it. And that’s what I wanted to show.”

But Driver considers acting a big responsibility.

“Maybe that’s self-indulgent, that I think I can really do something. But the potential is there,” he said.