KEIYNAN LONSDALE

Some people think 'Higher' is about literally getting high, and other people think it's more in a spiritual sense. To me, it's all that. To me, it was like I need to escape from this down state - emotionally, spiritually, mentally, everything. I want to be above this. Wherever we are now. I need to go up.

I've become bored of being insecure, ashamed, scared... no one should feel like that about themselves, especially when there is so much good life to live.

'The Flash' comics are visually amazing and so well done. I wish I had been introduced to them when I was growing up.

I think younger fans can't quite grasp that's what you do as an actor. They're like, 'It doesn't make sense. How can he talk like this when he talks like that on the show!' It's really cute, actually.

I was the youngest of the house that I grew up in, so I feel like, as the youngest, you have it pretty good. At the same time, I guess I required a lot of attention, being afraid of so many different things. So I was never seeking attention; I wanted the opposite.

I have a lot of brothers, and three or four of them love 'The Flash'.

I just pack up my pantry with lots of Oreos and other chocolate treats to disguise the fact that I don't have Tim Tams.

I'd only been out for, like, six months before I booked 'Insurgent'. It was my first role in America, and it was a huge movie franchise. All I'd ever hear at the time was how Hollywood treated gay men or queer men, so I was, like, 'Well, I'm not going to shoot myself in the foot before I've even started life here,' you know?

When we have a lot of the running, which we do on green screen, that is actually the hardest... I swear I have, like, four separate scenes in a row running, and I'd only done one at a time before.

I'd be really honored to do more LGBTQ stories.

If you really are passionate about it, you're just going to find a way to make it happen.

Spent way too many years hating myself, thinking I was less valuable because I was different... which is just untrue.

I record into my phone as soon as I hear a track. Melody comes first for me, and then my gibberish usually forms into lyrics and a concept from there.

It's important that I work with people where they know why they're hiring me and that they're looking to create art without fear. Anyone who uses those excuses to not cast people or to create extremely stereotypical characters, they're creating out of fear, and to me that's really boring.

You can live your dreams, and you can believe in magic. You can live your dreams, and you can be yourself.

No one really had to encourage me to become an artist; it was just something I knew I had to do. I was drawn to things that seemed impossible.

From, like, two, three years old, I was obsessed with Michael Jackson and just wanted to be on stage with him. And my mum put me in dance classes, but I had a lot of social anxiety and didn't want to be around people; I didn't like to look at anyone in the eye, so that was a difficult thing to get over.

Once I wrapped 'Insurgent', I went to Boston and shot a film called 'The Finest Hours.' It's based on a real story in 1952 about a Coast Guard mission to rescue these sinking ships that are caught in a blizzard.

My main advice is, if it's something you really want to do, then just go for it.

At some point, I came out to a lot of friends and some family, but then I went back in the closet when I started working as an actor in America.

I originally went up for a role on the spinoff show, 'Legends of Tomorrow,' and that led me to audition for Wally West in 'The Flash'. I enjoy auditioning in general, but this was a particularly fun process because it was so unexpected.

I started writing when I was, like, eleven. We couldn't afford private lessons, so I had to teach myself how to sing through recording songs on GarageBand.

I think being back in Australia has kind of helped a little bit because you just feel really comfortable around everyone, and it's the same environment that I've grown up in.

You can live your dreams and wear dresses. You can live your dreams and kiss the one that you love no matter what gender they are.

I think what's really important is valuing friendships and family a lot.