Owen Teague decided he wanted to be an actor when he was four years old, after watching Disney’s Beauty and the Beast. “I think it was the Beast himself,” says Teague. “The idea of this animal being a human on the inside and having this kind of anthropomorphic sensitivity and rage. It was really powerful to me.”
Teague told his mother, a former professional jazz singer with a passion for the arts, and she agreed to shuttle him to auditions. “She wasn’t a stage mom at all, but she was like, If you’re going to do this, then we have to do it.”
